2025-05-03
18 分钟President Trump's trade war with China has made its way into your online shopping cart.
Some of the most popular websites where you might find yourself paying more are Shein and Taimou.
Has anyone looked at their Shein cart this morning?
My $18 free shipping Timu order that I tried to place last night had a $27 import charge.
Import charge is $55.11.
So I just watched the prices in my Shein cart triple.
These added charges are largely a reaction to the Trump administration's high tariffs on goods from China.
Right now, those tariffs are hitting an average of 165%.
But there's a second reason the price tags on these products are going up.
And it has to do with something called de minimis.
De minimis.
De minimis.
De minimis.
It's called the de minimis threshold.
The Trump administration is ending today something called the de minimis exemption.
It kind of sounds like a Harry Potter spell.
but it's actually a trade provision.
Basically,
it means companies don't have to pay taxes on goods they're bringing into the U.S. as long as those goods are worth $800 or less.
But as of today,