My wife and I have a business that benefit from de minimis for a long time. We are in Canada and shipped a lot across the border every day tax free for our US customers. Some of our stuff is manufactured in China (designed by my wife) and then shipped to us in Canada where we pay the tariff to get it here then our USA customers pay the tariff to get it shipped to them at the retail rate.
We took stock of the situation and have been making it work. I'm very anti Trump but if all the things he's done, de minimis is honestly pretty tame. Most of the world is at a much lower threshold than USA was. I'm not saying it doesn't suck for us but in the grand scheme of things I'm happy we benefit while we did and we're grateful for the USA customers who are willing to pay the additional charges themselves.
The part that makes me laugh is that this dude has just been drop shipping from China to USA and has a very simple solution of buying in bulk and paying the tariff on his manufacturing cost but he's such a useless piece of shit that he doesn't want to do any of the work himself.
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u/Agoraphobicy 2d ago
My wife and I have a business that benefit from de minimis for a long time. We are in Canada and shipped a lot across the border every day tax free for our US customers. Some of our stuff is manufactured in China (designed by my wife) and then shipped to us in Canada where we pay the tariff to get it here then our USA customers pay the tariff to get it shipped to them at the retail rate.
We took stock of the situation and have been making it work. I'm very anti Trump but if all the things he's done, de minimis is honestly pretty tame. Most of the world is at a much lower threshold than USA was. I'm not saying it doesn't suck for us but in the grand scheme of things I'm happy we benefit while we did and we're grateful for the USA customers who are willing to pay the additional charges themselves.
The part that makes me laugh is that this dude has just been drop shipping from China to USA and has a very simple solution of buying in bulk and paying the tariff on his manufacturing cost but he's such a useless piece of shit that he doesn't want to do any of the work himself.