US shoppers could already be seeing further charges on shipments from China after President Donald Trump’s tariff on Chinese language items took impact on Tuesday.
Clint Reid, the founder and CEO of an organization that provides software program to assist with cross-border commerce, posted screenshots on X exhibiting further prices added to a cargo from DHL:
One other X screenshot seems to indicate DHL requesting an import obligation on a cargo from Hololive. We’ve seen an analogous screenshot on Reddit. One Reddit person in a retro gaming handheld emulator group shared a screenshot of an electronic mail from Keepretro asking if a purchaser would pay an additional $8 on their bundle because of the tariffs; one other person posted the identical message with a $6 cost. Yet one more X person claims DHL will ship an order again to the sender if import duties aren’t paid inside 5 days. DHL and Keepretro didn’t instantly reply to requests for remark.
A Trump administration order over the weekend added a ten p.c tariff to items from China and closed the de minimis exception, a loophole that lets packages valued beneath $800 enter the US duty-free. The brand new guidelines seem to have shortly resulted in individuals being requested to pay further prices on many extra shipments from China.
The order additionally prompted the US Postal Service (USPS) to briefly droop inbound bundle shipments from China and Hong Kong earlier than it backtracked. “The USPS and Customs and Border Safety are working carefully collectively to implement an environment friendly assortment mechanism for the brand new China tariffs to make sure the least disruption to bundle supply,” the USPS stated.
Trump individually ordered tariffs on items from Mexico and Canada, however these have every been placed on a one-month pause.
