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1. jleyank · 1790018215 · focus · HN ↗

   Fwiw, non us businesses have the same problem trying to ship to the us. It’s how governments want to roll now and how they generate counter actions.

   1. tetromino_ · 1790025825 · focus · HN ↗

      The US idiocy was to whiplash de minimis regulations. The US gov't suddenly raised the de minimis threshold to $800; with the easily foreseeable effect that the country got flooded with crap from Temu; and then reacted by eliminating de minimis completely.

      If they'd just kept the threshold at $200, all the chaos could have been avoided...

      1. t0mpr1c3 · 1790028202 · focus · HN ↗

         To my mind, the increase from $200 to $800 was more of a pragmatic policy tweak than a change of course. It was a recognition that US customs had limited capacity to check the value of small packages.

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