I’m not making this up. As of June 1, you as an individual in the US receiving a package from China will be paying a $50 duty fee per package regardless of value, or 30% of the item’s value, whichever is greater. That $3 lip gloss or $5 computer part? It’s a $53 lip gloss or $55 part now
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That way they only pay imports for the value of the container as a one time fee.
so an $1000 iPhone will now be a $1900 iPhone
literally cheaper to fly to round trip Europe and buy it
Also I think most items at the store are ordered in bulk just due to the shipping costs alone. I think only Amazon, Temu and such were able to take advantage of de minimus for large scale operations.
Either way while some might be leveraged, I'd hope anyone dealing with China would already be limiting their risk cause China.
There's a lot of flashlight nerds (myself included) who buy stuff from a couple small outfits in China. If I want a pocket clip and a particular lens it's now cheaper to buy a custom light than it is to get the parts individually.
If you're on Reddit, swing by r/flashlight, it's *shockingly wholesome*. Lots of pictures of environments by people excited about quantity and quality of light... and holes burnt in pockets.
It's good stuff :)
And to clarify: it'll be cheaper to buy a custom light from China for $75-$100 to get ~$10 in LEDs from a particular bin, a $3.50 pocket clip, and a $10 lens than it'll be to get those parts individually.
The flashlight community pretty routinely organizes group buys across the US and EU to get large manufacturers to make custom runs of product so there's some relevant experience in this one niche.
Forgive my ignorance never ordered from temu.
Now we have a system called Remessa Conforme where vendors+
Ordering goods from the continent like they'd been used to, but were shocked that they had significantly extra to pay to release their goods from customs
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-55734277
US tariffs is Brexit² on steroids
https://www.tiktok.com/@inappropriatemommie/video/7473909107897109806
Pretty crazy though.
And the sites that aren’t shipping directly to you from China will be shipping stuff to themselves and passing the cost onto you, if they manage to stay in business at all
https://youtu.be/gsBpGVb3b54
Unfortunately it doesn't say "whichever is less/more" so yep, they're probably free to charge what they want. 😩