For American customers, on-line procuring has simply acquired dearer. On February 1st Donald Trump did away with a decades-old provision, generally known as the de minimis waiver, that exempted items underneath a sure worth (these days $800) from customs duties. With the identical stroke he raised tariffs on Chinese language items by 10%. Then on February fifth the US Postal Service introduced that it had briefly suspended inbound parcels from China and Hong Kong, earlier than abruptly reversing, inflicting all method of confusion.
