American shoppers face a fee of up to $ 50 or more to obtain packages from China

The commitment to the new rules also proves that it is a major elevator for customs and US border protection (CBP) and the American Post service, which briefly stopped the latter from accepting packages from China and Hong Kong on Tuesday while stampede to managing a flood of packages from China, which suddenly suffered more comprehensive searches.

CBP Published guidance On Wednesday, the audience warns that the packages sent from China to the United States should be submitted now to “Official entry“A process that includes providing intensive documents, including the value of the parcel contents and comes with higher treatment fees.

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Currently, the shipping companies appear to attend the largest part of the burden resulting from the new trade rules, not all happy to do so. In response to Trump’s tariff, two logistical, Dhl Hong Kong and The Hongkong Post, Declare They will not accept the individual beams that are shipped to the United States. The owner of a truck transport company in Alberta, Canada WIRED, told that he is planning to pay the costs of duties from the pocket first and to receive customers after that.

It is expected that the elimination of the 800 -dollar fee exemption will reach low -cost Chinese shopping platforms such as Shein and TEMU the most difficult, but many smaller e -commerce sellers felt burned. Selling brands Mechanical keyboardsand underwearAnd tea All of its customers have reported that possible shipping stops and increased prices in response to the definitions, according to the joint screenshots on Reddit.

Miguel Sherrade, the owner of a Canadian tablet access company, says that many of his customers have been asked by UPS to pay heavy import fees for products made in China. His company sources are products from Chinese manufacturers, but they charge them outside Canada. However, they slapped with sudden import duties.

In one of the examples, Schraeder participated with WIRED, the customer submitted a $ 30 request on Friday before announcing the customs tariff, and UPS was now asked to pay $ 52.22 to receive the package, which exceeds 170 percent of the original price of the element.

He says that even the new definitions have become into effect, as it has always been shipped packages for US agents exempt from customs duties. He actually encouraged his customers to submit applications before the end of last week to try to avoid the charge, but still ends with fees.

Sherrade says that he spoke to his usual contact with UPS, who told him that there are hundreds of thousands of beams kept for the same reason. “It seems that there is no system that has been prepared in place yet to deal with this properly,” said Sharrara. “They only receive everything that is equivalent (fees) as if it was an element of $ 800. This may be the reason that people are imposed on these high fees on these low -cost elements … They mentioned that they are looking to reform that but they do not They promise anything. “

Chraeder expects to lose money from this chaos because customers can refuse to pay import fees and return the elements at the account of the seller. As a result, it is planned to temporarily suspend sales to the United States.

One of the complex factors for some small business owners is that Trump’s tariff targets the original country where the products have been manufactured, which means that it does not matter whether the elements produced in China are sitting in another country for years before reaching the United States. “My problem is that the clothes used often have a missing or unread brand,” says Brown, the owner of the used clothes.

Like many other people, Brown says his packages have been removed on the American -Canadian border on Tuesday. He can apply for official entry and try to charge products to the United States again, but he says he will cost a lot of money and time. “For a direct future, I withdraw all the elements made of China and put my platforms in setting holidays to prevent sales. It is extremist, but the only just option for my customers, I feel.”