Known as a de minimis dismissal, it was used by Chinese shopping giants Shein and to send millions of packages to the US every year free from service, helping maintain low prices for their products for Americans. But release is also essential for markets such as ebay and etsy, which allow people in the US to buy goods from Chinese sellers.
Lighting the center can also negatively affect Amazon, which recently introduced the market to the market into inexpensive products made in China, which compete directly with this and Shein. Amazon did not answer immediately at the request for comment.
Trump tried to scrap a de minimis decision for Chinese packages in February through a separate executive order, but quickly went back after this middle after it became clear that American customs and borders’ protection has no resources to check millions of additional packages a day and make sure that the correct related tariffs were paid. His modern order says that the exemption free of duties will disappear on May 2, giving CBP several weeks to prepare.
Ram Ben Tzion, co -founder and general director of the Publican, digital shipping verification platform, claims that Trump intends to employ the de minimis elimination as a negotiations system with China, because if politics is really scraped and replaced by high tariffs, it can radically transform online shopping when Americans know.
“The size and meaning of this, if it finally comes into force, are gigantic,” says Ben Tzion. “It can radically change electronic trade. It may radically change some giants that we’ve known in the last few years.”
Some technology companies, especially those already rooted in areas such as logistics and data analysis, can see the possibilities in Trump’s trade policy. Almost immediately after the tariff was announced, the Palantir defense contractor published Blog post Promoting the artificial intelligence service, which the company boasted, integrates “a wide range of data sources” to aid enterprises provide “decisions related to the tariff take into account the full operational context”.
Jay Gerard, head of customs and logistics in Mexico Nuvocargo based in Mexico, says that if he “hates tariffs”, they created a greater demand for his company’s services. Nuvocargo acts as a freight broker between Mexico and the USA and sells software that helps customers get goods within the US border. It also helps them process customs documents. The company now forecasts an raise in customer activity in April, May and June, predicts that the tariffs will raise their activities.
Despite this, the last month was the “chaos” of importers and forwarders, says Gerard, leaving many of them in exorbitant holding designs. At the beginning of March, Trumped hit a 25 -percentage tariff on the import of Mexico and Canada, just to make a few days later. In this tiny time, Gerard says that if the freight truck crosses the border, the importer paid the fee.
“If they brought drinks worth $ 100,000 that day,” he explains, “they paid USD 25,000 for their duties. If the truck crossed the day later, it disappeared.”