As part of new tariffs on Chinese imports, President Donald Trump eliminated an exemption for small packages, vastly increasing the amount of parcels US Customs and Border Protection needs to inspect.
I still don’t completely understand how online purchases for such end up working out. Say I buy a dog kennel. The dog kennel was purchased by an importer who pays the tariffs directly to the Treasury, and they mark the price of the product up when they sell it to me so they cover their lost profit. Maybe I misunderstood you last sentence, but no one should be having to ask China to pay anything as they didn’t have to pay anything more or less. They could reduce their price to help incentivise the purchases made by the importer to avoid lost sales, but they should only lose sales if the kennel was less than 25% difference in price to start with. Which a lot of importers seem to be saying that the price is usually 300%.
Want your package from chaina? Pay the tariffs!
~…then very humbly ask the Chinese government to refund you those tariff costs…~
I still don’t completely understand how online purchases for such end up working out. Say I buy a dog kennel. The dog kennel was purchased by an importer who pays the tariffs directly to the Treasury, and they mark the price of the product up when they sell it to me so they cover their lost profit. Maybe I misunderstood you last sentence, but no one should be having to ask China to pay anything as they didn’t have to pay anything more or less. They could reduce their price to help incentivise the purchases made by the importer to avoid lost sales, but they should only lose sales if the kennel was less than 25% difference in price to start with. Which a lot of importers seem to be saying that the price is usually 300%.
Idk, time will tell