Trump ends the exemption of tariffs on small packages

US President Donald Trump dealt with another blow to the besieged The e -commerce industryWhich still suffers from the overwhelming definitions that Trump announced in the spring. On Wednesday, Trump signed an executive order that expands the impact of these definitions and made it more expensive for Americans to buy foreign products on sites such as Ebay, ETSY and Amazon.

This cancels the so -called “De Minimis” item, a long -term policy that allowed people in the United States to import packages valued at less than $ 800 from anywhere in the world without fees. These packages will now be subject to the same definitions of the country as a larger charging, according to Fact paper Released by the White House.

Trump is already I got rid of From the minimum exemption for Chinese goods earlier this year. The new executive order for the president now removes for every other country that starts on August 29. Until then, experts say that many foreign sellers and American companies who have warehouses abroad will defend their goods in the United States. “Expect a set of sales as brands are trying to liquidate its stock abroad in the next thirty days,” said Aaron Robin, CEO of Logistics Company. Social media yet.

There are some temporary exceptions to beams that pass through international postal networks, which means shipments that do not deal with private companies such as DHL or Fedex. Since it is difficult for customs officials easily calculating the value of these packages, they will undergo a fixed tariff rate between 80 to 200 dollars per element, at least at the present time. The Trump administration says this special tariff base will end after six months, when taxes are imposed on all shipments according to the country’s definitions that Trump started negotiating with individual countries like Japan.

Minimis’s exemption is originally designed to allow us to travel to home gifts and elements that were purchased abroad for personal use without paying duties. But with the prosperity of the e -commerce industry, the base also made the cheaper and more efficient for Americans to request goods online from all over the world. Until this year, sellers abroad often use a commercial vulnerability to send the beams directly to the sill of consumers in the United States at a very low cost. According to data from customs and US border protection, the United States receives 4 million minimal shipments every day on average.

Some of the largest beneficiaries of this policy were Chinese e -commerce platforms such as Shin and TimoWhich used minimal shipments systematically to maintain low prices and also build supply chains that can respond to the consumer demand in actual time. They were the first victim of Trump’s tariff when he issued an executive order in April to remove the exemption from the packages coming from China.

When the exemption from customs duties ended, some analysts were afraid to be a threat to the level of extinction of Chinese e -commerce sites, but they learned to adapt and resume regular operations in most cases. However, Timo and Sheen did Price up On many products to calculate the additional costs of new definitions.