Wired- USPS Halts All Packages From China, Sending the Ecommerce Industry Into Chaos
Daniel, the owner of a trucking company based in Alberta, Canada, who asked to only use his first name for privacy reasons, tells WIRED that two of his company’s trucks were turned away at the US border in New York and Montana today because they contained packages originally from China.
The law of unintended consequences.
Changing the rules without first thinking them through.
There will be blowback in the US.
Uh, no, totally intentional. Look up “de minimis exception.”
I keep hearing about how we in the US are starting to regret Trump. Not hardly.
I see “customs agent” as a growth industry. WINNING!!! Perhaps AI can calculate the probability description of a contraband package … based on weight, size, packaging, origin, and destination, eh?
I try and avoid anything coming from China (not always easy), so not a big deal to me. Also, people
will be better off not filling up on Chinese crap.
No more trash from Temu then?
Eggactly, who doesn’t want to buy an asbestos ladden necklace from China?
They have resumed accepting parcels.
They are trying to figure out how to collect the duty
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-postal-service-suspends-incoming-packages-china-hong-kong-2025-02-05/
In 2024 there were 1.36 billion de minimis packages received in the US.
“Currently, de minimis packages are consolidated so customs a clear hundreds or thousands at once, but they will now require individual clearances, significantly increasing the burden for postal services, brokers, and customs agents.”
That didn’t take long
“there will be blowback”
“So what, it’s a fight”
Mike Tyson
“incrementalism”
Some forgotten loser that sold the 407 for squat.
Exactly right. Items in this price category have been ignored for too long. It all adds up.
Trump should next impose a 20% surcharge on all remissions from the US to other countries, or at minimum to South American countries.
// Sending the Ecommerce Industry Into Chaos //
TRUMP = CHAOS
// If you want to understand the first few weeks of the second Trump administration,
go back and listen to what Steve Bannon told PBS’s frontline in 2019.
“The opposition party is the media, and the media can only because they’re dumb and they’re lazy.
They can only focus on one thing at a time. All we have to do is flood the zone every day.
We hit them with three things. They’ll bite on one and we’ll get all of our stuff done. Bang bang bang. These guys will never, will never be able to recover. But we got to start with muzzle velocity.
So it’s got to start. It’s got a hammer. It’s got muzzle velocity.”
[…]
Donald Trump’s first two weeks in the White House have followed Bannon’s strategy like a script.
The flood is the point. The overwhelm is the point.
The message wasn’t in any one executive order or announcement. It was in the cumulative effect of all of them.
The sense that this is Trump’s country now. It is his government now.
It follows his will. It does what he wants, that he is limitless.
If he says that birthright citizenship is over, then it’s over.
Or so he wants you to think.[…] //
Don’t Believe Him
By Ezra KleinFeb. 2, 2025
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-trump-column-read.html [see archive.is]
Totally agree! Every so often you need a little chaos Or in gardening terms, “A little rough with the smooth”.
I have a very “low” opinion of journalists and I agree, hit them with 3 things per day, and they will not know which one is worth pursuing.
‘who asked to only use his first name for privacy reasons’
Who does he think he is, a criminal?
This is being inaccurately reported of course.
De minimus rules were introduced BY THE UN (and adopted by the US) to reduce the cost that developing countries incurred when sending mail to the developed world.
The US is now saying that China has developed enough and can start paying the cost.
https://protrans.com/blog-why-the-international-postage-imbalance-what-can-we-do-about-it/
The postal rate and the de minimis rule are different.
The US Postal Service rates may be too low for foreign packages. I won’t argue that.
De minimis rules apply to packages sent via mail, or shippers like UPS, FedEx etc.
It is the value of goods shipped in a parcel that can enter the U.S. and not pay customs. It is currently $800 per package, and only one package per addressee per day is allowed. De minimis does not affect the USPS shipping rates.
If the US taxpayer is subsidizing the US post office, that’s a separate, but important issue for Americans to decide.
Oh no, where will people buy crap made of toxic products for cheap? Oh I think we know where you can buy Chicom crappola in Canada.
“Oh I think we know where you can buy Chicom crappola in Canada.”
Answer – just about anywhere.
“Oh I think we know where you can buy Chicom crappola in Canada.”
Home Depot. Good luck finding electrical stuff that is not made in China.