After a short fear on February 4, the USPS has raised the shortest shipping suspension of the worldAnd confirm that it will continue to deliver packages from China and Hong Kong to the USA, although these packages may soon become more expensive.
The news follows a temporary standstill of Chinese packages as a result of February 1 of President Trump on February 1st Executive order This was a tariff of 10% to Chinese goods and increased the liberation of programs from China. The USPS says that it is currently working on a plan to implement these fees with the “slightest interruption of package delivery”, but in the meantime they continue to be accepted in the meantime.
While other shipping services such as UPS or FEDEX do not yet have to announce their own answers to the president’s order, everyone has to create a kind of plan. Nevertheless, their grandparents in overseas will still be able to send them care packages. But that doesn’t mean that we are not yet out of the forest. While the packages continue to flow, you can expect delays when the senders learn how to control new fees and the prices for jumping.
While a tariff of 10% is quite self-explanatory (goods from the tariffer are 10% more expensive), the loss of the liberation of minimis is to be understood a little more difficult and is probably a big thorn in the side of inexpensive online Chinese marketplaces such as Shein and Temu. Note that these apply in addition to the 10% tariff. However, your application was temporarily interior after a temporary Executive order Exhibited on the morning of February 7th.
The exemption from Minimis issued in 1930 was intended for the United States as a way to save a little trouble by foregoing tasks and fees for international programs in which the collected income would require more efforts to raise the indictment than the government to get out of them. As a rule, it applies to all packages worth less than $ 800, which was a blessing for online e-commerce, since companies were essentially able to send small packages directly to US consumers . According to a report by the US Congress Committee from 2023 from 2023 by cited by ReutersAlmost half of all DE -Minimis exceptions to this point was for Chinese packages, with 30% of the daily de -minimis programs coming from Temu and Shein.
Since these protective measures will eventually disappear in the future, the business would now be exposed to customs for all goods in addition to the 10% tariff, which could increase prices and shipping times. American businesses that rely on Chinese warehouses such as Amazon vans could also be affected.
At this point it is unclear how much of this additional pain is passed on to customers. In an interview with Reuters, the CEO of Warehouse Management Software Shiphero, Aaron Rubin, said the fees “probably about 5 points of the difference in Marenda by using de minimis or not, and e-commerce companies usually have a margin of 10% or 15 %.
Conversely, the professor of the University of Delaware Fashion and Apparel Studies Sheng LU the outlet informed that the new rules could only add a few cent to each product. Although it sounds like a modest price increase, this could still affect strong Chinese companies that do not have the cost -absorbing resources or Shein.
Note that the liberation of minimis has not disappeared overall The recent business of the President with these countries For the time being, gave them a 30-day stay of the enforcement. In this sense, the own version of another country from Temu could dethroned the e-commerce giant or that Chinese senders could set up international camps in order to easily reduce their fees.
However, it will take some time to feel the full effects of the changes. While the 10% tariff against China runs as usual, China will still enjoy a liberation from Minimis until the Minister of Commerce determines that “appropriate systems are available in order to process and collect the income from tariff completely and functional”.
