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President Donald Trump temporarily paused measures to close the exemption from tariffs to low -budget shipments from China, while officials realize how to tax millions of packages coming to the US every day.
In the amendation of the Executive Command signed on Wednesday and posted late on Friday, she said so -called at the White House de minimis provision – What excluding shipments below $ 800 values from tariffs and rigorous customs checks – it would remain in effect until “there are no appropriate systems for completely and fully process and collect tariff income.”
The Deta’s provision was designed to help households and small businesses buy low -budget items from abroad without becoming subject to heavy customs checks. In recent years he has proven platforms for E -trade that are delivered directly to consumers, such as Chinese Shein and theme.
Trump canceled an exemption last week in Executive Command announcement An additional 10 percent of Tariff on the goods from China, which the White House said was aimed at punishing Beijing for allowing the flow of the deadly opioid fentania to the United States.
But analysts warned that the decision, which came into force only a few days later, would force customs officers to apply a more complex formal procedure for entering each package coming from China.
Parcels that have previously qualified for De Minimis would also not only an additional 10 percent of tariffs, but also existing trade levies, experts say.
The US Postal Service on Tuesday suspended the receipt of a package from China, including Hong Kong, when the tariffs came into force, before Return a day later to accept the shipments.
USPS said that he cooperates with customs officials to establish an “effective mechanism of collecting” because the rapid application of the directive has increased working loads for customs officials and deceased turmoil for exporters and carriers.
US officials had long had rules on de minimis in their sights. Domestic merchants buying items from abroad have largely complained that the exemption of Chinese EC groups has given an unjust cost advantage.
The administration of former US President Joe Biden suggested measures to split the rules concerning the DE MINISM regime.
US Customs and Border Protection estimates that it processes more than 4mn of low value shipment daily. The 2023 Congress Committee report estimated that about 30 percent of these packages came from the theme and Shein.
The movement of the exemption of De MINISM has hit this week of Chinese E -TRGOVINA sellers, who said some logistical groups charge for deduction fees to cover levies and other customs expenses.
A report of analysts from Nomura, Japanese investment bank, estimated that China delivered packages worth $ 46 billion in the United States in accordance with De Minimis rules in 2024, and in order for the abolition of exemption to overthrow 0.2 percentage points from Chinese economic Growth at 2025.
Trump is expected to hold a call with Chinese leader XI Jinping in the coming days to avoid escalating in trade tensions, with Chinese tariff retaliation The US should take effect on Monday. But the US president said on Tuesday that he was not in a hurry to talk to his Chinese counterpart.
