The news follows a temporary halt on Chinese parcels following President Trump’s executive order that applies a 10% tariff to Chinese goods and lifting the de minimis exemption for shipments from China. The USPS says it’s currently working on a plan to implement these fees with the “least disruption to package delivery,” but that it will continue to accept impacted packages in the meantime.
While a 10% tariff is fairly self-explanatory (goods from the tariffed country will be 10% more expensive to import), the loss of the de minimis exemption is a little harder to understand, and is likely to be a major thorn in the side of low-cost online Chinese marketplaces like Shein and Temu.
With those protections going away, said stores would now be subject to customs on all goods, in addition to the 10% tariff, which could raise prices and shipping times. American stores that rely on Chinese warehouses, such as Amazon Haul, could also be impacted.
Conversely, University of Delaware fashion and apparel studies professor Sheng Lu told the outlet that the new rules might only add a few cents to each product. However, despite sounding like a modest price hike, it could still greatly impact smaller Chinese businesses who don’t have the cost-absorbing resources Temu or Shein do.
Note that the de minimis exemption as a whole is not gone—Trump’s new rules are currently only directed at China (originally, they would have also impacted Canada and Mexico, but the President’s recent deals with those countries have given them a 30-day stay on enforcement for now). With that in mind, it’s possible another country’s own version of Temu could dethrone the e-commerce giant, or that Chinese shippers could use an intermediary to slightly reduce their fees.
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