US President Donald Trump has suspended tariffs on small packages from China, after his sudden order ending duty-free treatment for shipments worth less than $800 left the US postal service and other agencies scrambling to comply.
The postal service temporarily stopped accepting packages from China as a result of the order, only to reverse course a day later.
The chaos left many in the US wondering about the fate of packages ordered from companies such as Shein and Temu, which had used the exemption for low-value packages to expand rapidly in the US.
Trump made the change last weekend as part of a wider decision raising border taxes on goods from China by 10% on 4 February.
His revision to the order on Friday said tariff-free treatment for packages from China worth less than $800 would remain in place until "adequate systems are in place to fully and expediently process and collect tariff revenue".
Posted by John3262005
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I bet Don Jrs new waifu pillow got stuck at customs so he asked Daddy to give it time until his collection was finished
I wish one of these countries would not capitulate to Trump and let the economic turmoil happen.
Look how fast he backed off this tariff. What was that, a couple days?
Xi Jinpeng is not under threat of being voted out. He has an opportunity to be the only person in the world standing up to Trump while everyone else capitulates and fellates him.
Not that I care much for the CCP but I think Trump is picking a fight here that he can’t win.
A few days of economic turmoil is going to make Trump freak out and panic. I’ll bet Xi’s China would stick it out for at least a month.
I hope this applies to my package from Hong Kong that just shipped yesterday.