Compliance with the new rules also appears to be a great lift for US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and the US Postal Service. The latter briefly stopped accepting packages from China and Hong Kong on Tuesday, while crawling to run the avalanche of packages from China that were suddenly subjected to more thorough inspections.
CBP published guidelines on Wednesday and warned the public that packages sent from China to the US should now be submitted for ‘formal entry’, a process that provides extensive documentation, including the value of the contents of the parcel and with higher processing fees.
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For the time being, shipping companies seem to be most of the burden created by the new trading rules, and not everyone is happy about it. In response to Trump’s rates, two logistics carriers, DHL Hong Kong and Hong Kong Post, announced that they would no longer accept individual packages sent to the United States. The owner of a truck business in Alberta, Canada, told Wired that he intended to pay first for the duties outside the pocket and then charge customers.
Eliminating the $ 800-free release release is expected to hit Chinese low-cost shopping platforms such as Shein and Temu the hardest, but many smaller e-merchants also felt the burn. According to the screenshots shared on Reddit, brands selling mechanical keyboards, underwear and tea have notified their clients of potential breaks and price increases in response.
Miguel Schraeder, owner of a Canadian board game, says several of its customers were asked by UPS to pay for heavy import taxes for products made in China. His business gets products from Chinese manufacturers, but sends them out of Canada. Yet they were slapped with surprise import tax.
In one example Schraeder shared with Wired, the customer placed an order of $ 30 on Friday before the rates were announced and was now asked by UPS to pay $ 52.22 to the package, which is more than 170 percent of The original price is, to receive.
He says that, until the new rates came into effect, he always released packages to US customers. He actually encouraged his clients to place orders this weekend to try to avoid the charge, but still hit with fees.
Schraeder says he spoke to his usual contact at UPS, who told him that hundreds of thousands of packages were held for the same reason. “It sounds like they have not yet set up the system to handle it properly,” Schraeder says, referring specifically to UPS soil shipping system. “They just ask all the equivalent [fees] As if it’s an item of $ 800. This is probably why people are charged such high fees on such low-cost items. They did mention that they are doing it, but they promise nothing. “
Schraeder expects to lose money from this chaos because customers may refuse to pay the import fees and return the items at the cost of the seller. As a result, he plans to temporarily suspend sales to the US.
One complicating factor for some small business owners is that Trump’s rates target the original country where products are manufactured, which means it doesn’t matter or items produced in China has been in another country for years before he US has not reached. “My problem is that used clothing is often missing the label or unreadable,” says Brown, the second -hand clothing owner.
Like many other people, Brown says his packages were turned away at the US Canadian border on Tuesday. He can submit for formal access and try to transport the products back to the US, but he says it will cost too much money and time. ‘For the immediate future, I deduct all items made in China and place my platforms in the holiday mode to prevent sales. It’s extreme, but it’s the only fair choice for my clients, I feel, ”he says.