The tax will be one expense but the customs clearance and paperwork will be the largest problem.

If I buy a cheap gadget (say $20) from China, it currently sails through customs quickly with no added cost.

When the de minimis exception is eliminated, it will raise the price by whatever the tax is plus all of the paperwork by the seller and customs to process the few dollars of tariff due.

I guess that's the point... make it difficult to buy stuff from abroad.

MAGA!

Last month I bought two guitars from Aliexpress and a bunch of pedals from Japan (effects bakery). I've got some gear to play with while the Mango Mussolini plays games with our economy, most likely resulting in a decades long crash of the US economy.

Speaking of games, I received "Trump: The Game" as a gift back in the early 90's. My friends and I played it maybe 4 or 5 times. Absolute trash, the only fun we had was ripping on how bad it was. Sadly, Trump was laughing all the way to the bank for putting his

They yammer on about Temu but the hardest hit sector will be small R&D shops that get parts and components as the need comes up and now they'll have 2-3 week delays on every order at Customs.

I've seen stuff disappear into the Customs black hole for six weeks and there's nothing you can do but reship and home the Chinese Roulette favors you.

It would be great if Adafruit and Sparkfun were 50x their size but that's not reality and manufacturing was driven out on purpose. It can't return for a decade even if a project were started today.

Watch: the media will say small businesses are complaining about the 15% to try to fool everybody. In prototyping almost nobody cares if an SoC is $10 or $11.50.

Trump's Corporate donors will be just fine and face fewer upstart competitors so it is working as intended.

This is the thing that causes Trump's downfall. In the US you can lock up as many people as you want, ignore the law all you want, threaten and cajole anyone you want, every President has done. But you mess with people's cheap shit and they'll come for your head.

> the cost of eliminating the trade loophole overall to US consumers could fall between $10.9 billion and $13 billion

Trump, his Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick and Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent have repeatedly assured us that, like all the tariffs, the cost will be paid by the foreign companies and countries. /s

(Trump graduated from Wharton and Lutnick and Bessent are both rich Wall Street wonks; they all actually know better.)

At this point, you are an absolute idiot if you don't realize that Trump gave high earners an enormous tax break and is placing the burden of that on the lowest paid class in our society in the form of tariffs. Even those tariffs will not fully pay for the insane debt he has summarily created, but our future generations certainly will be. DOGE was a joke, and the savings they generated amounted to nothing. Especially after all the litigation and 'oops have your jobs back' that ended up after they realize

So now egg prices will come down? And thankfully I'm on a few medications, I heard I'm going to start getting paid for buying those too.

Anyone who voted for, or supports this clown is an idiot.

Never mind that it's American consumers who are demanding this. With Trump it's all about blaming others for his/America's problems. He never takes responsibility. Ever. Unless it's something others praise and then he's quick to tell us all his opinion of himself.

As someone who is self-deprecating and embarrassed by any sort of praise, my mind is boggled by his behavior, and how many people are cheering him on. Perhaps a solid third of the population is mentally ill? Probably, no matter what team you ch

How are you enjoying your tax increase?

Posting about how their businesses are basically finished. There's a Reddit forum dedicated to them called leopards eating faces and it's just one after another.

There's also a healthy mix of people posting about how in two years or so they're going to be dead because they are losing access to Medicaid.

I can't help but want to say, have the day you voted for. Every one of these bastards has learned nothing and if they happen to still be alive in 4 years will be voting for Trump again in the primary and the general election.

Oh and so far we have lost 30 billion dollars in tourist revenue because people are afraid to come to America because they might be thrown into a El Salvador gulag. Which has happened two or three times now to tourists.

I mean is there anyone here on this forum who will defend Donald Trump or their vote for him? Anyone? Bueller?

before barking at Trump, note that in the EU, the de minimis threshold is zero for VAT and a mere 150 EUR for customs duty. (And discussions are underway about the elimination of the latter as well).

For border-near people.

Order it poste restante to Canada and smuggle it over.