“I felt fear and spent $ 400 online.”

Earlier this year, Deborah Grushkin, an enthusiastic online shopkeeper from New Jersey, “Makhif”.

US President Donald Trump has signed an order to stop allowing firmness from China with less than $ 800 (601 pounds) to enter the country free from import taxes and customs procedures.

It was a step, with the support of the traditional retailers, which were discussed in Washington for years amid the bundle explosion sliding to the United States under the limit.

Many countries, Including the United KingdomSimilar measures are studied partially driven by the rapid climb from Shin and Timo.

But in the United States, Trump’s decision to end sculpture while requesting a set of new commercial tariffs, including import taxes of at least 145 % of goods from China, has provided one punch that left companies and shoppers.

The US -based e -commerce brands, which have been created around the system, warn that changes may raise cases of smaller companies, while shoppers such as Deborah Brace to increase prices and deficiency.

With the date of the day of May 2, the 36-year-old rushed last month at about $ 400 of Shein-including stickers, shirts, blouses, mother’s gifts and 20 liquid pipes.

“I felt that perhaps it was the last type of these,” she says.

The use of the rules known as “De Minimis”, which provides low -value packages to avoid customs tariffs, customs inspections and other organizational requirements, over the past decade.

The seizure accelerated during the first period of Trump in his position, when the tariff was raised on many Chinese goods.

By 2023, these shipments represented more than 7 % of consumer imports, up from less than 0.01 % a decade ago. Last year, approximately 1.4 billion the country’s package entered the exemption – more than 3.7 million per day.

The bus defenders, which include shipping companies, say the system may simplify trade, which has led to low prices and more options for customers.

Those who support change, a group that includes legislators from both parties, say that companies offend the rules that aim to reduce gifts between family and friends, and has made the height easier to slide illegal or fake products or violate safety standards and other rules in the country.

Trump recently called the “fraud”, which has unloaded concerns about high costs. “Perhaps children will have two dolls instead of 30 dolls,” He said.

However, opinion polls refer to concerns about its economic policies that rise with the start of changes at home.

The 57 -year -old Krystal Duffrene says that she was examining prices nervously on TEMU for weeks, as she recently canceled a request for curtains after seeing the price more than three times.

Although she eventually found the same component of the original price in the American warehouse network, it says that the cost of her husband’s hunting networks has multiplied more than weakness.

“I do not know who pays the tariff except the customer,” she says. “Everywhere sells cheap things from China, so I am really preferred to be able to demand directly.”

When the rules surrounding De Minimis changed last week, TEMU said it would stop selling goods imported from China in the United States directly to customers from its platform, and that All sales will now be dealt with by “local sellers”With orders that were implemented from within the United States.

Even without the latest customs tariffs, economists Pablo Vagilibum and Umt Khandloual estimated that ending the minimum would lead to at least $ 10.9 billion at new costs, which they found will be incarvated by low income and minority families.

“It looks like the end of an era,” says Ji Davis, a 40 -year -old, Missouri, who used TEMU during a modern home step to buy small things like A Can Electric Can and kitchen wardrobe organizers.

She says it was convenient to be able to withstand the costs of additions easily, and the new rules felt that they were “seizing money” by the government for the benefit of senior American retailers such as Amazon and Walmart who sell similar products – but on a larger sign.

“I don’t think it is right or fair to be the small treatment (restricted) for the wealthiest people.

“It will be a real problems if everyone who was below the entry of a specific family is no longer able to bear anything for themselves.”

As with other Trump policy changes, questions about the importance of transformation remain.

The president has already been forced to suspend politics before, as the packages began to accumulate on the border.

Lori Walsh, director of Rathink Trade, who supports ending the minimum reasons for the safety of the consumer, says that the end of the exemption is important “on paper”, but she is afraid that the administration will take steps that weaken its implementation.

It indicates a modern customs notice, which said that the products affected by many new definitions can enter the country through the informal process, a step that reduces some regulatory requirements.

“In practice, because all these things can come despite informal entry, it will be very difficult to collect definitions or be able to examine more by change,” she says.

Customs protection and border protection will undermine the enforcement of their enforcement, noting that companies are still required to provide more information than before.

Companies indicated that they take changes seriously.

Both Shin and Timo last month Customers warned that prices will riseWhile TEMU says she quickly expands its network of sellers and warehouses in the United States to protect its low prices.

Other business groups say that many smaller and less well -known American brands that are made abroad for American customers are struggling – and may not survive.

“If the definitions are not in place, it will be like taking a few bitter medicines,” says Alex Belller, a member of the Board of Directors of the Innovation Alliance in the field of e -commerce, a business lobby group and co -founder of Postscript, who works with thousands of smaller companies in marketing text messages.

“But associated with other definitions, especially for the brands made in China, becomes just an inappropriate transformation.”

In a message to the government last month, the men’s clothing company Indochino, known for its allocated suits in China, warned that ending the minimum poses a “major threat to its business validity and other moderate American companies like her.

Stephen Borilli is the CEO of Athleisure Clothing Cuts, which is manufactured outside the United States, shipping products to a warehouse in Mexico, where packages are sent to customers in the United States.

His company was pressing to reduce its dependence on China, and the requests stopped in the country months ago. However, he says he is now considering increasing prices and lowering jobs.

He says that his work has room for maneuver, because he meets the needs of higher income clients, but he expects “thousands” of other brands to die without changes to the situation.

“We want more time,” he says. “The speed that everything happens is very fast for companies to adjust it.”