Compliance with the new rules has also proved to be an important lift for American customs and border protection (CBP) and the American post service, the last of which stopped briefly stopped wise packages from China that were suddenly subjected to more thorough inspections.
CBP has published guidance on Wednesday and the public warns that packages sent from China to the US must now be submitted for 'formal access', a process in which extensive documentation is provided, including the value of the content of the package and with higher processing costs .
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For now, it seems that shipping companies should have the majority of the load of the new trade rules, and not all are happy with it. In response to Trump's rates have two logistics carriers, DHL Hong Kong and the Hong Kong post announced that they will no longer accept individual packages to the United States. The owner of a truck company located in Alberta, Canada told Wired that he intends to first pay the tasks out of his own pocket and charges customers afterwards.
The elimination of the tax-free exemption of $ 800 is expected to become the Chinese cheap shopping platforms such as Shein and Temu the most difficult, but much smaller e-commerce sellers have also felt the burn. Brands that sell mechanical keyboards, underwear and tea have all informed their customers of potential shipping breaks and price increases in response to the rates, according to screenshots that are shared on Reddit.
Miguel Schraeder, owner of a Canadian Boardgame Accessory Company, says that various of his customers have been asked by UPS to pay for heavy import duties for products made in China. His company is products from Chinese manufacturers, but sends them from Canada. Yet they were beaten with surprising import tasks.
In an example that Schraeder shared with Wired, the customer placed an order of $ 30 on Friday before the rates were announced and it was now asked by UPS to pay $ 52.22 to receive the package that more than 170 percent of the original price of the article.
He says that until the new rates were in force, he always sent packages to American customers Duty-Free. He actually encouraged his customers to place orders before last weekend to try to avoid the indictment, but was eventually still hit with reimbursements.
Schraeder says that he spoke with his usual contact person at UPS, who told him that for the same reason hundreds of thousands of packages are being stopped. “It sounds like they have not yet set the system to handle this correctly,” says Schraeder, specifically referring to sending UPS's disk system. “They simply charge everyone the equivalent [fees] As if it was an item of $ 800. That is probably the reason why people are charged such high costs for such cheap items … they said they want to repair it, but they promise nothing. “
Schraeder expects to lose money from this chaos because customers can refuse to pay the import costs and have the items returned at the expense of the seller. As a result, he is planning to temporarily suspend the sale to the US.
A complicating factor for some owners of small companies is that Trump's rates focus on the original country where products are made, which means that it does not matter whether items that are produced in China have been in another country for years before they have the US have reached. “My problem is that used clothing is often missing the label or unreadable,” says Brown, the second -hand owner of clothing.
Like many other people, Brown says that his packages were rejected on the American Canadian border on Tuesday. He can submit a formal input and try to send the products to the US again, but he says it will cost too much money and time. “For the direct future I take off all the items in China and place my holiday mode platforms to prevent sales. It is extreme, but the only honest choice for my customers, I feel, “he says.
