Trump $ 800 Tariff Tariff used by Chinese e -commerce giants ends

President Donald Trump On Friday, a tariff closed that companies such as Chinese E-E-Commerce Giants have used them to sell cheap goods to US tariffs-which will probably affect US consumer prices.

Trump has eliminated what is known as “de minimis” that imports under $ 800 from China and Hong Kong were not subject to tariffs or require strict checks. The hole has also been criticized for entering the cargo of Fentanyl precursors to enter the country.

This change is implemented a month after Trump signed an executive order to end the hole, which has been employed since 1938. These goods are now at a 145 % tax rate or are subject to a flat cost that is likely to be transferred to the consumer.

How the Trump tariffs used the hole used by Chinese retailers

Approximately half (48 %) De Minimis cargoes go from sites such as Shin and Teemu to the most poorest zip codes in the United States, while Research By the economists of UCLA and Yale.

Executive Instructions said that this is a “important step in dealing with an emergency of health that is carried out by the illegal flow of synthetic opioid materials to the United States”

The White House said many Chinese -based transport hides illegal materials, including synthetic opiates, in low -valued packages to exploit the de Minimis exemption. Figures of Disease Control and Prevention Centers (CDC) estimates 107.543 Over -consumption of drugs Death in the United States during the year 2023.

Before closing the hole, customs and border patrol (CBP) processed more than 4 million de minimis White House said that shipping to the United States every day. Last fiscal year, CBP arrested more than 21,000 pounds of Fentanyl on our borders, Fentanyl enough to kill more than 4 billion people.

Pressure of the shin, Temeu accelerates retail closure

Research by Reuters last year showed that they were able to use de minimis delophole Enter The leading chemicals for at least 3 million Fentanyl tablets due to transportation overseas that deliberately mislead the packages as electronics.

“Some products may be different from the past, but most of our collections are affordable as always,” said Giant Giant on Thursday. Shin sells the most produced clothing in China, and the United States is its largest market.

TEMU, the International Arm of the Chinese E -Commerce Giant PDD Holdings, outstanding products that have not already existed in US warehouses on its website, “Local” and a pop -up customer, there will be no cost to local warehouse goods.

“All sales in the United States are now deployed by local sellers and orders are met from inside the country,” TEMU said.

But the items arrived before the change of May ends. Both Shein and TEMU have reduced US digital advertising costs in recent weeks, as they have been prepared for the change they may have been sold.

Shein and TEMU have observed rapid growth in the US market through rapid cargoes, toys and other consumer goods to conscious consumers. A report on Congress's research services said that Shin and TEMU are about 17 % of the US discount market since November 2023.

Rise Sheen and Temu According to Coresight Research, it has helped increase the closure of US retail stores. It is estimated that about 15,000 closures occur in 2025 after 7323 in 2024 – the highest number of closures from 2020, when nearly 10,000 stores were off.

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Some experts believe that closing this hole will help us make our manufacturers more competitive against electronic giants.

Kim Glass, head of the National Assembly of Textile Organizations, who represents the American Textile Manufacturers, said “it has destroyed the US textile industry.”

“This tariff hole has given China almost unilaterally granted access to the US market at the expense of US manufacturers and US jobs,” Glass said. New York TimesHis group had defended their cancellation.

Fox Business' Eric Riell and Reuters were involved in the report.