The United States will cut the “de minimis” Tariff For shipments with low value of China Up to 30%according to an executive order and industry expert in the White House, further de -escalating a potentially harmful trade war Between the two largest economies in the world.
The order published late Monday offers the great Chinese e-commerce players Shein and Temu a certain relief and follows A weekend contract between Beijing and Washington For 90 days, most of the tit-for-tat tariffs that have mutually imposed on each other’s goods since the beginning of April.
While her joint explanation after the talks in Geneva did not mention the DE-Minimis tasks, the order submitted by President Donald Trump for post-deliveries for direct consumers to 54% for items worth up to $ 800 from Wednesday. An alternative package fee of 100 US dollars per postpacker remains in force, but a planned increase on June 1 to 200 US dollars was canceled.
There are various rules for packages treated by commercial delivery companies such as United Parcel Service, Fedex and DHL, the millions of Shein and Temu packages sent before Trump ended the duty-free status of Chinese shipments worth less than $ 800.
The rate for these packages now specifies the reduced US tariff rate of 30% compared to 145% for Chinese imports. Two delivery experts informed Reuters for fear of retribution in Reuter’s support for anonymity.
The 30% sentence reflects the Trump government’s decision to reduce China’s “mutual” service interest rate from 145% to 10%, plus a separate 20% suspension in connection with the US fentinesl crisis.
The White House’s office and the US sales representative did not react immediately to an application for clarification.
The sales representative Jamieson Greer announced CNBC on Tuesday that the global rate of 10% would probably remain in order to build the reconstruction of the US production base.
Commercial senders usually collect tasks of sellers in China before shipping, but the US mail service is not set up for tariff collections. Four sources said Reuters that most of the Temu and Shein programs are treated by retail operators.
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Many consumer goods from China in the commercial channel are still much higher obligations, which are collected in the context of earlier trading actions or sectoral national security examinations. For example, injections and surgical gloves are subject to 100% duties as part of a commercial action of the US section 301.
However, one of the delivery experts said that if they are sent by a postal company worth less than 800 US dollars, they may only arrive in the USA for a fee of $ 100 or an effective price of 12.5%.
In February, Trump ended the liberation of minimis and imposed various rules for packages treated by postal services or commercial delivery companies-and accused the liberation to enable a flood of shipments by Chinese e-commerce companies and dealers of Fentanyl and other illegal goods.
The number of shipments that occur through the tax -free channel in the USA has exploded in recent years, with more than 90% of all packages coming over de minimis. About 60% of these came from China, led by retailers such as Temu and Shein.
According to 2024 congress statements by a US -American customs and border protection officers, the average value of a DE minimal program during the 2023 financial year was only 54 US dollars.
The Chinese online retailer Shein, who is considering a London stock marketing list-and PDD Holdings-ownership of Temu and the US competitor Amazon did not immediately respond to inquiries for comments.
China exercised $ 240 billion in direct consumer goods in the amount of De Minimis worldwide last year.
Jianlong Hu, CEO of Brands Factory, a Chinese cross-border e-commerce consultation, said a tariff of 54% was still very high.
“Seller probably pursue a waiting-and-lake approach, but in general I think it is fair to say the boom times of a small package delivery from China to the USA, the golden age has already disappeared.”
Shein is exposed to more changes in minimis, since the speed of thousands of new styles per week in consumers in the west rely on air than others like Temu.
Shein could still be a player who wants to send some packages from China by air freight and pay the 54% tariff instead of importing the entire boat, said Hu.
“If people buy clothes on Shein and that the product will arrive a month later, who will buy it?”
China Yuan rose to a six -month high on Tuesday and, according to the wider trade agreement between Beijing and Washington, competed in a more risky asset.
Trump’s global trade war, which shook the game books that have ruled international trade for decades, shaked the financial markets and aroused the fears of a recession.
The US -Minimis rule, which dates back to 1938, was the goal of the growing criticism of both the democratic and the Republican legislature as a gap that enables Chinese products to deal with US tariffs and illegal drugs and fentany reserves in order to go to the US non -voltages, as Reuters reported.
