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US President Donald Trump temporarily has measures to conclude a collective bargaining exemption for inexpensive shipments from China, while officials find out how the millions of packages that arrive in the United States every day can tax.
In a change of an order of the executive published on Wednesday and published at the end of Friday De minimis supply -Free the programs below 800 US dollars of tariffs and strict customs tests -would exist until “appropriate systems are available in order to process completely and functional and collect tariffs”.
Determination with minimis should help households and small businesses to buy inexpensive items from abroad without being exposed to stressful customs tests. In recent years it has proven to be a blessing for E -Commerce platforms that are sent directly to consumers. How China is Shein and Temu.
Trump canceled the exception in one last week Announcement of the executive Another 10 percent tariff on goods from China, which the White House said, aimed to punish Beijing for the fact that the river of deadly opioid fenanyl was left to the USA.
But if analysts had warned that the decision that came into force just a few days later would force customs officials to apply the more complicated formal entry process to every package arriving from China.
It would also make packages to qualify for the Deximis earlier, not only the additional 10 percent tariff, but also the existing trade taxes, according to experts.
The US mail service exposed to the preservation of packages from China, including Hong Kong, when the tariffs came into force trace a day later Accept shipments.
USPS said it was working with customs officials to establish an “efficient collective mechanism”, since the quick implementation of the guideline increased the workload for customs officials and the shock of turbulence for exporters and goods.
US officials have long been targeting the DE minimis rules. Domestic retailers who buy objects from overseas in large quantities have complained that the liberation of Chinese E -Commerce groups gives an unfair cost advantage.
The government of the former US President Joe Biden had proposed measures to tighten the rules for the DE -Minimis regime.
The US customs and border protection estimates that it processes more than 4 million low valuable parts every day. A report by the Congress selection committee in 2023 estimated that about 30 percent of these packages came from Temu and Shein.
The move to cancel the liberation of minimis made Chinese E -Commerce sellers this week, who said that some logistics groups received source fees for covering the taxes and other customs costs.
A report by Nomura analysts, the Japanese investment bank, estimated that China sent packages worth $ 46 billion to the USA according to de -minimis rules in 2024 and that the scrapping of the exceptions in 2025 by 0.2 percentage points Chinese economic growth could knock.
It is expected Chinese retaliation tariffs The United States will be effective on Monday. But the US President said on Tuesday that he was in “No Eile” with his Chinese counterpart in “No Eile”.
