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jleyanktoday at 7:16 PM1 replyview on 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.


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tetromino_today at 9:23 PM

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...

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