tl;dr
They’re planning to under declare the value of goods. If a company doesn’t want that, the sellers will handle the shipment on both ends, bringing it through customs at a lower value and then deliver it.
How do other countries deal with this?
They’re planning to under declare the value of goods. If a company doesn’t want that, the sellers will handle the shipment on both ends, bringing it through customs at a lower value and then deliver it.
How do other countries deal with this?
That happened on a smaller scale when they tried to abruptly end de minimis around 2 months ago. Previously they would at most randomly check a few of these small packages, suddenly they had to check all of them. USPS customs ground to a halt and items were delayed for up to 2 weeks or so even though they paused the de minimis repeal very quickly.
They’re allegedly going to try it again. Their supposed solution is to bypass USPS and have private companies add very large customs fees on top of tariffs. If implemented it would kill the small direct orders market but not after a bunch of pain for buyers that didn’t realize their $50 temu order would get a $75 tariff and a $50 fee tacked on after they ordered.
If this is all implementd it will mean much less trade and more expensive imports for basically no reason or benefit. Just a bunch of new pointless and privatized customs workers.
lmao right?