Following the new rules is also proving to be a major lift for the US Customs and Border Security (CBP) and the US Postal Service, of which the latter brief Stop accepting The package of China and Hong Kong was completely on Tuesday as it used to scramble to manage the Holocaust of the packages from China which was suddenly subject to more intensive inspections.
CBP Published guidance Warning the public on Wednesday that packages sent from China to America should be submitted for now “Formal entry“A procedure that involves providing comprehensive documents, which includes the value of the material of the parcel and comes with high processing fees.
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For now, it seems that shipping companies are giving shoulders to the wholesale of the burden created by the new business regulations, and not all of them are happy about it. In response to Trump's tariff, two logistics carriers, DHL Hong Kong and Hong Kong Post, Has announced They will no longer accept individual packages sent to the United States. The owner of a trucking company located in Alberta, Canada, told Wired that he first planned to pay for duties out of the pocket and later charge customers.
The elimination of $ 800 duty-free discount is expected to be the most difficult for Chinese low-cost shopping platforms such as Shin and Temu, but many small ecommerce vendors have also felt burning. Brand sales Mechanical keyboard, UnderwearAnd Tea According to the screenshot shared on the reddit, all have informed their customers of potential shipment rols and price growth in response to tariffs.
Miguel Shreder, owner of a Canadian Bordeaux Accessory Company, says many of his customers have been asked by UPS to pay for heavy import duties for products made in China. His company is a source of products from Chinese manufacturers, but takes them out of Canada. Nevertheless, they have been slapped with surprise import duties.
In an example shared with Wired, the customer ordered $ 30 on Friday before the announcement of the tariff and now UPS has been asked to pay $ 52.22 to receive the package, which is the original price of the item which is the original price of the item Of more than 170 percent.
He says that till the new tariffs were implemented, they always sent packages to American customers till duty-free. He actually encouraged his customers to order before the previous weekend to try to avoid the charge, but still were hit with fees.
Shreder says that he spoke to his general contact in UPS, who told him that for this reason hundreds of packages are being organized. “It seems that they have not yet set the system to handle the system properly,” Shreder says, especially referring to UPS's ground shipping system. “They are just charging equivalent to everyone [fees] It was as if it was a $ 800 item. Perhaps that's why people are being charged such a high fee on such low -cost items … They mentioned that they are looking to fix it, but they are not promising anything. ,
Shreder is expected to lose money from this anarchy as customers may refuse to pay import duty and return items at the expense of the seller. As a result, he plans to temporarily suspend sales to the US.
A complex factor for some small business owners is that Trump's tariffs target the original country where the products were manufactured, which does not matter that the items produced in China have been produced for years before reaching America. Sitting in another country. “My problem is that the clothes used often disappeared, or illegal,” brown, the owner of the secondhand fabric business.
Like many others, Brown says their packages were converted to the US-Canadian border on Tuesday. He can file for a formal entry and try to again ship the products, but he says that it will cost a lot of money and time. “For the immediate future I am pulling all the bunny-in-China items and keeping my platforms in holiday mode to prevent sales. This is extreme, but the only appropriate option for my customers, I think, ”he says.