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U.S. shoppers ordering smaller goods from abroad are being met with waves of cancellation notices ahead of a key trade rule change ordered by the Trump administration.
On Friday, the United States will end the nearly century-old “de minimis” exemption, which allowed items worth less than $800 to be shipped to the country duty-free, or without having to pay any tariffs.
In advance of the official termination date for the exemption, many European nations, alongside Australia, India, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand and New Zealand, have announced suspensions of U.S.-bound shipments. <\/a>
Mexico’s postal service announced Thursday it was suspending package deliveries to the United States because of the pending changes.
U.S. e-commerce hubs have been posting notices warning customers about shipping disruptions. Last week, Etsy announced it would no longer process purchases for goods sent via Australia Post, Canada Post and the United Kingdom\u2019s Evri and Royal Mail services in anticipation of those firms’ shutting down U.S. deliveries.
\u201cGiven the complexities, legal requirements, and poor experience, many postal providers will be suspending\u201d delivery options to the U.S., Etsy said.
Online auction site eBay has likewise warned that sellers who rely on foreign postal services may have to find alternative shipping processors to get their products to U.S. customers. Canada Post said Thursday<\/a> it had contracted with a third-party duty processor to keep parcels flowing into the United States.
Private, third-party carriers that may already have tariff-collection systems can cost as much as four times the cost of sending an item by regular post, said Alison Layfield, vice president of product development at ePost Global, a California-based logistics firm.
\u201cCustomers are going to be very shocked,\u201d she said.
Jay, a New York City resident who works in graphic design, recently stumbled upon an online German music store selling a rare modern recording of traditional Japanese music. An exhaustive search revealed it didn\u2019t exist anywhere else, he said.
A few days after he made the purchase, he got an email from American Express saying the order would be refunded. An email to the online music store revealed why.
\u201cThey just said they were nervous about following the law,\u201d Jay said of the site, recordsale.de. \u201cIt\u2019s annoying but understandable. The way all this is being implemented \u2014 there\u2019s so much uncertainty.\u201d
While foreign postal systems have no problem making deliveries to the United States, they don\u2019t have systems to process tariffs and pay them into U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Layfield said.
In essence, the Trump administration is now asking foreign mail carriers to act as import tax collectors on behalf of the U.S. government \u2014 something they aren’t set up to do or may be refusing to do, she said.
\u201cWhy would a foreign post collect from a local business for a foreign country\u2019s customs?\u201d Layfield said. \u201cIt\u2019s not something that anyone has done before.\u201d
Senior administration officials said Thursday that countries that have suspended parcel shipments into the United States represent only a small fraction of de minimis shipment volumes and that they are making a \u201cbusiness decision\u201d that will ultimately harm them financially if they choose to close off their services to the U.S. market.
Peter Navarro, the Trump administration’s senior counselor for trade and manufacturing, told reporters that ending the de minimis exemption would bring in billions in revenue, create thousands of jobs, boost U.S. businesses and save lives by restricting the flow of drugs, contraband and unsafe products into the United States. <\/strong>
Studies have shown that de minimis shipments to the United States exploded after Trump first imposed tariffs on China during his first term as Chinese suppliers began to use the system as a workaround.
\u201cIn warehouses in Northern Mexico, goods imported from China are repackaged into smaller parcels, each valued at less than $800, allowing them to enter the US tariff-free under the de minimis rule \u2014 a practice known as the \u2018Tijuana two-step,\u2019\u201d trade economist Anne O. Krueger wrote in a column last year<\/a>.
The U.S. textile industry has praised the move to end the de minimis exemption, saying said foreign competitors have used it to undermine its industry.
“For years, companies have used this loophole to avoid tariffs and customs reporting requirements on shipments valued at $800 or less, devastating U.S. manufacturers, undercutting American jobs, and opening the floodgates to unsafe and counterfeit products and goods made with forced labor,” Kim Glas, president and CEO of the National Council of Textile Organizations, said in a statement.
China accounted for more than half of all packages with de minimis exemptions \u2014 with more than 30% coming from China\u2019s low-cost shopping platforms, such as Temu and Shein. The exemption for Chinese goods ended in May, and Temu and Shein both saw online traffic from U.S. shoppers plunge \u2014 but U.S. customs data shows no noticeable impact yet<\/a> on the volume of drugs being seized at the border.
Administration officials said tat closing the exemption for the rest of the world \u2014 including countries that may have served as so-called trans-shipment hubs China uses to get around U.S. trade barriers \u2014 will help increase the new rule’s impact.
U.S. small-business owners who source orders from abroad are also being affected, said Matthew Hertz, founder of Third Person.co<\/a>, a logistics group. Such firms that may have been relying on low-cost shipping of products from countries like Mexico, Portugal or Turkey now face a new calculation.
\u201cFor small businesses that relied on cheaper shipping, the decisions involved with these new changes are really difficult to make,\u201d he said.
Rob Wile is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist covering breaking business stories for NBCNews.com.
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