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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. account42 · 1790086508 · focus · HN ↗

         The EU also got rid of customs minimums and (at least in germany) has been letting delivery companies charge highway robbery fees to pay the couple of euros and cents for you at the border. The $3 per linie item that is on top of that mess.

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