Companies like Temu exist solely because of the exemption to small shipments. I was wondering when the crackdown was coming. Thanks for covering this Sal.
Hi Sam it would be neat if you could talk about the car smuggling going on in the Port of Montreal. all the news just talks about is buzzword and the statistics. I mean the “stats” are crazy like the insurance claims made by individuals for stolen cars alone in Canada was over 1.5 billion dollars or when the police inspect 400 containers and find 600 stolen cars. more context would be nice and it would be an interesting topic.
Exactly 💯 I'm a merchant mariner and I see this all the time it needs to be talked about I'm glad you said something about it especially port of Vancouver
Here in New Zealand there was also a small value tax exemption. But the government made it company wide. If your company does more than $1000 per year in trade with NZ they have to be gst registered and all packages are subject to goods and service tax. You can still send up to 5 $200 packages to your friends tax free but if it is a business you have to pay tax. Amazon shat a brick when the rules came in and threatened to block NZ from deliveries. But they saw they had competition rising so they paid the tax.
For a few years around 2010, I was a manager with a DHL hub in my city, big enough to rate our own airplane. We had CBP come routinely to look at packages. There was rampant "fraud" when it came to what was being reported for customs vs what the person was receiving, and a lot of fake stuff arrived routinely - watches, handbags, airbags... interesting times. Not surprised that it's only getting worse.
Sal, Sec321 is the Regulation for the free entry of shipments under $800. The chart indicates the number of BOLs (Bills of Lading) carrying e-commerce DeMinimus cargo. (Yes, I am a licensed Customs Broker!)
Youd be surprised what US customs does with containers going out, company I work for shipped 3 containers full of pipe organ parts to Sydney Australia from Iowa going to St James, a Sydney church last winter. We shipped the containers in a specific order so the first one with specific components and our tools would get their FIRST, a week later container #2 would arrive and then container #3. Well, US customs decided to inspect container #1, which meant container #2 was on it's way and delivered out of order, and the install crew had no tools or the parts needed to go in first, a week of work was lost there along with people being paid and having to stay at a hotel waiting. Container #1 was COMPLETELY unloaded in customs, fragile, easily damaged, easily scratched and broken, stained and finished oak parts, poplar wood parts and I forget what else was basically thrown on the floor as they unloaded the container, and then all of it was just shoved back in with NO regard whatsoever for packing the stuff as it was with the soft foam, blanket pads, excelsior bags etc. As a result, expensive metal organ pipes were dented and damaged, woodwork that would be highly visible in the church was stratched, dinged, dirty shoeprints also marred a lot of things as well as these clowns just tromped all over in the container stapping on whatever, as did the careless re-packing which caused more damage due to the movement etc on the ocean voyage. I dont remember the dollar amount exactly but seem to remember someone said it was about $25,000 in damages
Another thing that almost no one seems to be paying attention to is goods that are dangerous and don't comply with safety regulation such as lead in toys, electric components that are non-compliant, banned flame retardants etc.
@@johnchin1456 it actually is very similar to the FAA allowing Boeing to sign off its own compliance, except that with de minimis we don't even require them to comply with most regulations.
I ship a tiny package of three springs, plastic envelope, maybe 3/8" thick, very small letter size is more than big enough. It costs me $5.35 to ship the springs anywhere in the U.S.. Meanwhile, foreigners can ship the same package or even larger for one dollar from China or elsewhere to anywhere in the U.S.. Anyone call that fair?
I don't get why the US doesn't set at least similar tariffs as most other countries that have VAT. In EU you'll be usually paying at least 20% VAT at minimum. Then when you go above value limits which vary, you'll also pay the duty which can vary a lot from 0,x% to 100% duty (or more, even?)
@@rkan2 Here in the U.S. it costs maybe $200 when I ship in a container load from the Philippines. Figure $25,000 on the invoice, port fees might add a few hundred more. Turn that around and ship the same thing back to the Philippines and I would pay 30 to 80% tariffs plus thousands of dollars in port fees plus massive licenses needed just to import.
If we're going to have tariffs on small shipments, you need to make it easier to pay the tariff. It took my university a month to figure out how to ship a specialty power electronics component to Australia and back for repair.
@@davidgoodnow269first off.. cant believe youtubeski allowed you to curse... wow havent seen that allowed in a while.. also the guy above isnt lying and he is a chief of exportation there
@@davidgoodnow269the guy above is one of the top shippers apparently.. so he isnt lying.. resume and reports have his experience and its very big experiences
Very informative as usual & potentially very significant for deglobalisation from now on. I wonder if could cover this issue i came across in an UK independent news paper online article "Sailor stuck at sea for years highlights the surge in owners abandoning ships" & back pay for these sailors being withheld or very difficult to chase up.
Sal, As always a pleasure to watch your reports. @10:02 the de minimus table is in units of "value at the time of import", we assume in USD. Keep the good work. You teach all of us tuition free and outside your lecture hall!
Sal, thanks for highlighting this issue. When the de minimis increased to $800 a lot of companies shifted their e-commerce shipments to bonded warehouses in Canada and Mexico. This helps with more than just the duty. It helped with the compliance because you didn't need to do a full HTS classification to get the goods clear. However, over time it expanded into these freighters full of de minimis shipments from China. It certainly made commerce easier. Unfortunately, it became a conduit for illegal goods as well so this benefit for US consumers will likely get taken away.
I fully expect see what we saw long ago from other chinese companys. They will do mass shipments of products to their own warehouses in the US and then ship to customers from there (avoiding the de minimus issues). Products will likely go by sea. Customers will see a price hike. The goods will continue to flow. From what I have observed over the years the Chinese are good at figuring out a way around anything.
We really need to just ban anything and everything from China. They are intentionally committing economic warfare. And furthermore, their products are dangerous to life and limb. There is a girl in the UK that had to get skin grafts from using a substandard beauty product ONE TIME that she got from Temu. Ban it all.
Abusing the de minimus system is how they were avoiding tariffs. All that is going on here is CBP enforcing existing law to shut down the abuse. Chinese companies have been free riding the de minimus system aka cheating. Price increases would reflect a return to “correct pricing” based on non-cheating, benefiting us in the long run.
What I dont like is buying something on Amazon and then discovering it's coming directly from CHINA and that 2 days later it hadnt even been SHIPPED yet and has to go thru customs there and here and bla bla bla, I usually cancel the order if I see that, but some of them work an Amazon loophole they found and immediately mark the item as "shipped" because they PRINTED a shipping label, and then you can't cancel it because it's already been marked as "shipped"
I had an ecommerce company in the animal feed business, it was a nightmare trying to do anything international, even exporting to Canada was awful. I always thought export/import was pretty free and open but its not at all and it's getting worse by the day. Hell in the animal feed business even selling between states could be expensive and hard. They made a bunch of rules and regulations that they claim is for food safety but no one ever goes and tests the feed or does any inspections they just Make you jump through hoops doing a bunch of paperwork and then pay them a fee for the privilege. Feed is no safer or more dangerous than before the government just gets more revenue. This is when i really realized that i am a small government person and any large organization be it corporate or government bureaucracy eventually creates its own level of insanity and creates incentives that do not actually imorove the lives of its customers or citizens.
If the Feds really want to re-industrialize the US, rigorous customs inspections may be the only way to hold back the illegal, the dangerous and the cheap. It is perhaps the only lever that they have in their tool box; oh, that and snapping on the rubber gloves at the private airports where the corporate glitterati fly back to from wheeler-dealing. It all begs the question: what constitutes a foreign agent?
Don't forget about regulations. Some are good but there are so many that opening a business, especially one that produces physical items, is you're near impossible.
@@bryanshoemaker6120 If the US is on the war ramp, It is perhaps useful to examine how the US government took over war-materiel production in 1942. It is fascinating to see how the public, media and elected representatives etc fail to take into account the eminent possibilities (as Sal's "rants' about the Jones Act demonstrates). I wonder whether there is a secret US government "Department of Emergency Powers' which is never spoken of apart from its base - the Pentagon?. [You, you and you! ...Are "invited' to start making.. [Continued on Page 94]
@@bryanshoemaker6120 Consumer safety regulation such as lead in toys, electric components that are non-compliant, banned flame retardants etc. is very important. Yeah, you get the odd banning of kinder eggs in the US, but nearly all of it is really important.
@@_Ben4810 I find it interesting (and horrifying) that a lot of chemical ingredients our government says are safe to eat are apparently not as safe as we've led to believe. Apparently there are quite a few things banned in the EU & UK that are in our (US) food supply. 😢
They need to stop giving China the shipping discount for poorer countries. Give us Americans some shipping discounts so we can compete in our own country, instead of paying ten times as much to mail something one tenth as far!
@@pecan11 it absolutely IS a problem. Chinese companies are exploiting US taxpayers to subsidize their shipping. To say nothing of all their other shady tactics destroying fair competition
You have this backwards. International Postal Airmail rates are set in-country to cover the cost of delivery _to the delivering country._ From there, *_all costs are on the delivering country._* _Quid pro quo._ I do this for you, you do the same for me. Labor, across the board, is cheaper in People's Republic of China than in the United States of America. So their airmail rate is lower. In the 1950s, Americans bought all kinds of stuff in and from Europe, because of the buying power of the dollar. The dollar has been devalued to about 1/100th of what it was worth, then, at retail. A 5¢ hamburger is $5, a 5¢ gallon of high-octane is now $5, a new car was $400-500, now $40-50,000; a three-bedroom family home was $10-25,000 depending on city and region, now, rather higher. Food price inputs have not even kept up at that increase; producers get less for their product, and the difference is absorbed by processors to counter actual costs. Efforts to increase supply of cheap labor in the US never touch the costs of manufacturing, and have little and limited influence on transportation and deliveries; it simultaneously increases demand for housing, fuel, energy, medical care -- it only ensures that the labor market is fluid enough to resist demand for pay based on value of labor. Why does the postman get paid so well? It is a position of extremely high trust, that damn few people who are trustworthy want. Rain, sleet, hail, or snow, summer heat, muggers, and dogs, and constantly under monitoring and supervision with a crap-ton of paperwork. Who needs it? Versus China, where *everyone* is under that degree of supervisory harassment and B.S. paperwork, the entire civilization is *extremely low-trust* with payoffs and "gifts" to get anything done or even just keep your job, so *why wouldn't postmen be paid less than a dog-walking neighbor kid?*
@@davidgoodnow269I wish people would stop trying to turn the clock back. Consumer goods are not what America needs to be in the business of. The American economy of today is based on services, pharmaceutical, agriculture, weapons, entertainment, etc. Nobody is buying American toasters.
I switched to air from sea for my shipping (@$10,000 per shipment) the convenience of avoiding rail to the middle of the country offsets the extra cost.
Which really illustrates how hard Class 1 railroads in North America have dropped the ball. Rail should be the CHEAPEST/most efficient/most convienient mode. Rail presents a huge opportunity to electrify long-haul transport. The problem is that North American rail companies are currently obsessed with "precision scheduled railroading". This is a system of cost-cutting involving running overly long trains to save on infrastructure and staffing costs. The problems are: 1. Long trains no longer fit in sidings, so trains can't pass one another 2. Long trains get delayed, so staff are forced to work unpredictable hours 3. The lack of scheduling means that the railroads can only move low-value bulk freight. A few years ago I tried to get a quote for shipping a car across Canada by rail. The shipper gave me a quote by truck instead. If the railroads had shorter, more frequent, scheduled, trains: they would be able to move more valuable cargo, including passengers.
You do not understand how the cross-border automotive industry works. Everything that can be shifted to Mexico already has been shifted to Mexico. Suppliers are on both sides of the border, and they manufacture subcomponents and components on both sides of the border that each get assembled in their respective countries (mostly high end vehicles in the U.S., mostly economy vehicles in Mexico). There is still an import tax to bring a Mexican assembled car into the U.S. and a U.S. assembled car into Mexico. If you’re a UAW member, you ought to educate yourself further on how NAFTA 2.0 works. NAFTA 3.0 negotiations begin in 2026 (with NAFTA 2.0 being in force until 2030 iirc).
I attempted to purchases a joystick and throttle combo from VKB. The VKB website had a notice saying any order over $800 would have a 25% tariff applied once the shipment reached the US. VKB didn't charge the 25%, the 25% would be charged by someone in the US. Not sure how it would have worked out, since I didn't end up moving forward with the purchase.
Free On Board -- tariff payment is Cash On Delivery. Oooh, except the postal delivery people cannot take cash anymore, so that's a Will-Call at the Post Office. I worked international shipping and receiving for a major import-export business, at the shipping desk for twelve years. So, yay! Today I get to be a know-it-all!
Great video Sal, i do use online shopping most of which i get from local i.e. Canada or USA shipments, I know some of it is Chinese made and do my best to keep it North American, which simply means it is warehoused here, with the exception of camera gear i get , it comes from Japan, i pay more shipping cost and get what i need for it and don't mind paying for it, it is higher quality than what comes out of China and a business that I've used for years, whole heartedly agree with stopping the illegal garbage coming into our countries 👍
You know that the majority of goods are made with imported parts. America only assembled, package, market and charge you extra for it. Whoever taught it was a good idea to ask China to develop their supply chain and manufacturing for us are fools. They killed the US engineering and manufacturing for a quick buck, not thinking about what will happens after.
Often times paying air freight + 0% tax via de minimis is cheaper than ocean freight + formal entry, so this enforcement will definitely have some effect on air freight.
Drugs flow into the country daily from all over the world, using numerous methods. How many drug mules do you think show up at the airports all day long from overseas? I've had jury duty 3 times. Each case was drugs brought in through BWI Airport. That's just the rare few that got caught. They keep doing it because it works a very high percentage of the time.
@@HoboEAT Fentanyl deaths increased 300% from 2017-2020. Let's not forget Reagan granted 3 million undocumented migrants asylum in 1986.. which started the immigration crisis.
I buy a LOT of stuff from China. Because that is where it is made. Electronics parts, adapters, test device equipment and a bunch of other stuff. Some of it is junk. Some of it is VERY well made. I am also mobility disabled, so I depend on shipping to my door. Where are we going to get these things from now? We don't make crap in the US anymore. Europe, especially Germany is going out of business due to energy costs. So not from here, not from Germany, not from China, not from Russia (yes, they make some things that nobody else makes). So we have high inflation, food shortages, bank failures, commercial chain store/restaurant failures, etc. We cannot continue this BS or we are not going to make it as a population, much less as a nation.
Hey bro, don't let the propaganda get you down. How is USA enforcing its own laws stopping anyone from getting anything? I'm curious, what does Russia make that no one else makes? (aside from war and obvious propaganda?) Are you talking about electronics? 🤭 They're stealing washing machine from Ukraine to make missiles. The Chinese Communist Party hasn't invented anything in 90 years except better ways to steal ideas sell knockoffs on Wish, Temu, Ali Express etc. This makes it almost impossible for small companies to operate, let alone innovate. We cannot continue to allow this BS or we are not going to make it as a population, much less a nation.
Germany is not going out of business due to energy costs. Germany is going out of business because they chose to allow the environMENTALists into guilt-shaming them into poverty for using “fossil fuels” (what a ridiculous name), and going along with the carbon tax nonsense. Selling things isn’t “green”, remember?
$800??? That’s such a a low threshold for e-commerce companies. Seems like it’s going to have a very minimum impact. I work at a fairly small eCommerce company, and we never have a shipment from China under $10k.
Remember that alot of it is individuals buying directly from China. Like often times if I'm not in a hurry for something, I'll buy a item on eBay that ships directly out of China and it'll be like $5 at a time.
Hi Sal,I remember a year or two ago on the TV there was a program on the border customs patrol staff here in the UK. They showed a working model grand piano made out of compressed drugs with a black shiny finish. The thing must have measured at least 18"to 2' and weighed quite a bit from memory. The skills to make it boggles the mind. I think that they valued the drugs somewhere between 1/4 to 1/2 a million pounds. So I assume that by now it's around £1000000 today's value?
At Big Brown we’re required to check every single package going through our system. Tens of Millions have been spent on our part meeting CBP’s regs to provide that kind of capability to the tune of 1-3+ million packages a night in capacity. …it’s about time the CBP did something about the “discount” air cargo shippers who’ve skirted the same scrutiny in their own logistics systems for years now.
Very timely information about contraband in shipments of temu and one other I didn't catch the name of. Explains how temu can sell so cheaply. I knew something about it was a scam.
Although I have never seen or heard of noncompliant shipments, I have wondered how this was going knowing the tendency of Chinese and others to ignore the laws and regulations.
Shipping is already a mess and has been for a long time. For instance, can you imagine a self-respecting ship captain accepting a container listed on the manifest as "oily rags?" This happened so long ago that I cannot now recall the details, but it was in the news.
there is a small container made for the states specifically to discard oily rags with no oxygen in the container. Also, islands cannot discard them so they pile up in the caribbean and other places until they can export it for proper burial somewhere else
Like fisheries inspectors, CBP ahould have people on inbound ships doing inspections. Better yet, inspections at mfgs, consolidators, and where containers are loaded and sealed. The stuff is getting in through very creative ways.
I buy a lot of small products from manufacturers directly from China and the import is starting to get harder. Some products are coming up on tariffs mainly microchips
It's about time. When I order something from Amazon or other sellers and it suddenly isn't coming for a couple weeks or more, it's coming from China and it is often a knockoff of a brand name. Obvious from the packaging. I bet every major name brand corporation would provide free representatives at the ports to help CBP identify counterfeit goods. A little legislation, if it does not exist, allowing authorities to destroy any identified goods would stop this quickly. This would also save jobs of those in this country who might actually be involved in the production of the genuine articles. You could require the Temu's of the world to originate their shipments from US locations making it even easier to investigate incoming shipments or just charge Customs Duty on each incoming parcel, This would easily pay for the extra required manpower and create jobs.
Sal, the info we get from your vids is valuable and interesting and informative. In this case tho, it seemed a lil like you were blaming/chastizing the Feds for causing a backup in the inspections when in fact, the criminal behavior is THE issue...you mention the "understatement of value", "fentanyl", and "drug making paraphernalia" as if the 3 are somehow similar in nature....in context however, two cause dead people in our country and the former is a loss of tax revenue.....lets not equate those outcomes. Lets blame the Chinese criminal activity, not the enforcement of very valuable laws.
Oh cool, now I can just ship my fentanyl from Vietnam or Thailand, and since CFB is so tied up inspecting temu packages I’m pretty much guaranteed to get it through. This is ridiculous.
As e-commerce exporters put their strategies in place they should be aware of some of the fundamental rules and regulations surrounding duties and taxes. In particular, rules governing low value shipments. This is where businesses first come across the term ‘de minimis’.
Years ago a local printer would take in jobs dispatch them to China and get them back in a week or so. The quality was fine the clients were happy and the "printer" was laughing all the way to the bank. Local printers didn't even know of the jobs because they were not on price and not on service time. No doubt these jobs all came into the country falsely declared for economy.
It's possible that FDA & USDA could be holding up your shipments for inspection of the tea from China. It's not not just US Customs involved with imports and clearances.
Still believe that honesty is the best policy. Probably there should be a minimum tariff that that could be refunded if the importer can prove that the commercial invoice valuations are the same as the paid price and that there is no contraband in the shipment. Else they should pay the difference and the penalty.
Thank you Sal. Really appreciated this. Was in an argument with a couple Ccp shills a few weeks ago on twitter and they were trying to tell me that china was not the main source of america's fentanyl problem. Thanks for exposing a route 😂😢😂 the tear that it is actually being done.
So frustrating - How can we STOP criminality from ruining our world? Time was I could order, ship and receive all sorts of (LEGAL) stuff for myself or friends & family around the world. It was great, lovely little surprises which really made folk's day. But in recent years the Fun Police have been out in force and for the most part I can't do this any more - tariffs on small gifts - say into England where they even TAX the recipient on the cost of shipping means I do not buy anything from overseas and ship into UK and my family and friends are the poorer for it - my local economy suffers too, as I don't buy unique products to send overseas, so the shippers also struggle... It really is sad and so many suffer on account of some sorry criminals ruining it for the honest world. And meanwhile on the Southern Border, USA & English Channel, UK criminals and undocumented persons are flooding over the borders in countless illegal transactions & Border Infractions...
Yup, China is a "developing country", so they get massive subsidies, from us, to ship letters and small items. This is an old postal rule, back when mass global shipping and ecommerce didn't exist. To see how much your Aliexpress package SHOULD cost, get a shipping estimate to China from your post office one of these days.
Trading Status: Most Favored (Nation) I'm all for "a rising tide raises all boats" but *when you open the lock/dam while keeping your ship tied fast-to-the-hard and drop your own anchor in the name of "fairness"...*
No, because it is well-documented that CIA Official Cover Agents working in the Customs & Immigration Service ensure all "official" Cartel shipments go through smoothly, in exchange for introductions and support overseas. You can look up the San Jose Mercury-News series on it, around 1992 I think it was; but I ran across them *many* times in my years working import-export.
The key is to reduce demand. Treatment if drug addiction, education, prevention and as strange as it sounds, decriminalization have been proven to work. As long as there is a thriving private prison industry and as long as poor people are treated as criminals then the trade in drugs is very profitable. It's very unpopular to get at the causes of people seeking drugs in the first place. If you have enough money you can get all the drugs you can handle with little suspicion. It's a difficult problem, but the "war on drugs" conducted by ever increasing penalties and stigmatizing the users has not worked and has made the drug trade very profitable.
@@georgewest2096 But the CIA isn't, and _it_ controls all drug traffic that enters through official ports. Of course, the drugs coming through the U.S. Army's Fort Huachuca composed 70% of all drugs trafficked in the central United States of America. But that was due to the Cartel across the border from Arizona infiltrating Army Administrative positions to pressure soldiers to not interfere with the mules carrying drugs through it. You report a sighting, and your next-of-kin get firebombed; so that Cartel has basically owned that U.S. military base since the late 1980s.
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Wow! That's awful. I'm pretty sure nobody snoops around in our packages from China. The ability to buy anything for a great price is the whole point of it. Surely??
That will never happen............The US is no longer a manufacturing nation. We want everything for nothing and we want it now, but we are unwilling to produce it ourselves. We've made the bed and now we have to sleep in it. Cut off the Asian supply chain and we are totally f#cked.
Families and small businesses rely on these small tools and replacement parts. The costs always go to the consumer. They could instead focus on securing the border.
I suspect a lot of this sort of stuff coming from China (from sources like ebay) to Australia comes via container, as I have noticed that you will get a rush of goods ordered from China over a several weeks, gets delivered a month or two later over a period of 2 or 3 days, most of it being repacked and sent via the local mail system.
The cheap stuff gets sent in a large box to another country with cheap postage and then forwarded from there. That's part of why it takes so long. I got an item from AliExpress that came via Emirates Post. Took about five months. These days AE has their own logistics from China to Australia. They combine shipments from multiple sellers in China, send large batches by air, then split them up for local delivery via various parties. Takes about 7 days.
Ah yes, Temu. But seriously, I was wondering when the sleeping CBP would wake up to this issue. It's been a good way to get all sorts of strange and illicit items in with not much risk.
@@Heterogeneity well to be fair, passing the funding requires making deals with the Satan worshiping pedophillic antifa party trying to destroy America. /s
Merely more protectionism of US companies as China puts US manufacturers to shame. If the US govt was so concerned about fentanyl the southern border would be closely guarded.
Companies like Temu exist solely because of the exemption to small shipments. I was wondering when the crackdown was coming. Thanks for covering this Sal.
Once I purchased something from Temu, my pc started getting virus attacks...Be aware.
I got My Temu order from Philly, Mass
Ordered Temu twice. A bunch of stuff I don’t need. But it all showed up
Exactly, right on the money! DRUG SHIPMENTS IS WHERE TEMU MAKES $$$!
TEMU is an anagram for MUTE. If that’s not weird enough for you, it’s also M TEU.
Hi Sam it would be neat if you could talk about the car smuggling going on in the Port of Montreal. all the news just talks about is buzzword and the statistics.
I mean the “stats” are crazy like the insurance claims made by individuals for stolen cars alone in Canada was over 1.5 billion dollars or when the police inspect 400 containers and find 600 stolen cars. more context would be nice and it would be an interesting topic.
huge issue lately in miami and nyc.. there is mobs of people not from here doing it now. using electronic machines to hack the ignition
A Canada news channel did a piece where cars stolen in Canada were going to Ghana.
The Ports Canada Police force was disbanded in 1997, giving Canadian ports to organized crime.
Exactly 💯 I'm a merchant mariner and I see this all the time it needs to be talked about I'm glad you said something about it especially port of Vancouver
Please do some investigative work at the criminally, corrupt Montreal port!
Here in New Zealand there was also a small value tax exemption. But the government made it company wide. If your company does more than $1000 per year in trade with NZ they have to be gst registered and all packages are subject to goods and service tax. You can still send up to 5 $200 packages to your friends tax free but if it is a business you have to pay tax. Amazon shat a brick when the rules came in and threatened to block NZ from deliveries. But they saw they had competition rising so they paid the tax.
For a few years around 2010, I was a manager with a DHL hub in my city, big enough to rate our own airplane. We had CBP come routinely to look at packages. There was rampant "fraud" when it came to what was being reported for customs vs what the person was receiving, and a lot of fake stuff arrived routinely - watches, handbags, airbags... interesting times. Not surprised that it's only getting worse.
Sal, Sec321 is the Regulation for the free entry of shipments under $800. The chart indicates the number of BOLs (Bills of Lading) carrying e-commerce DeMinimus cargo. (Yes, I am a licensed Customs Broker!)
Rob...I appreciate the info!
The hive mind of the internet provides.
Youd be surprised what US customs does with containers going out, company I work for shipped 3 containers full of pipe organ parts to Sydney Australia from Iowa going to St James, a Sydney church last winter. We shipped the containers in a specific order so the first one with specific components and our tools would get their FIRST, a week later container #2 would arrive and then container #3.
Well, US customs decided to inspect container #1, which meant container #2 was on it's way and delivered out of order, and the install crew had no tools or the parts needed to go in first, a week of work was lost there along with people being paid and having to stay at a hotel waiting.
Container #1 was COMPLETELY unloaded in customs, fragile, easily damaged, easily scratched and broken, stained and finished oak parts, poplar wood parts and I forget what else was basically thrown on the floor as they unloaded the container, and then all of it was just shoved back in with NO regard whatsoever for packing the stuff as it was with the soft foam, blanket pads, excelsior bags etc.
As a result, expensive metal organ pipes were dented and damaged, woodwork that would be highly visible in the church was stratched, dinged, dirty shoeprints also marred a lot of things as well as these clowns just tromped all over in the container stapping on whatever, as did the careless re-packing which caused more damage due to the movement etc on the ocean voyage.
I dont remember the dollar amount exactly but seem to remember someone said it was about $25,000 in damages
Totally DESPICABLE.
No surprise. Outbound Customs inspection *always* sucks, every country, period.
That story has nothing whatsoever to do with the CBP actions or the shipping program described in the video.
Bla bla..I find the story informative. @@daveandrew589
Another thing that almost no one seems to be paying attention to is goods that are dangerous and don't comply with safety regulation such as lead in toys, electric components that are non-compliant, banned flame retardants etc.
Like Boeing?
@@johnchin1456 it actually is very similar to the FAA allowing Boeing to sign off its own compliance, except that with de minimis we don't even require them to comply with most regulations.
I ship a tiny package of three springs, plastic envelope, maybe 3/8" thick, very small letter size is more than big enough. It costs me $5.35 to ship the springs anywhere in the U.S.. Meanwhile, foreigners can ship the same package or even larger for one dollar from China or elsewhere to anywhere in the U.S.. Anyone call that fair?
exactly!
Domestic shipping by the USPS is expensive and then I see a small package shipped in from China for a dollar, I don't understand. (actually I do)
I don't get why the US doesn't set at least similar tariffs as most other countries that have VAT. In EU you'll be usually paying at least 20% VAT at minimum. Then when you go above value limits which vary, you'll also pay the duty which can vary a lot from 0,x% to 100% duty (or more, even?)
Sounds like USPS 1st Class. Are you using someone like Pirate Ship or paying retail USPS rates?
@@rkan2 Here in the U.S. it costs maybe $200 when I ship in a container load from the Philippines. Figure $25,000 on the invoice, port fees might add a few hundred more. Turn that around and ship the same thing back to the Philippines and I would pay 30 to 80% tariffs plus thousands of dollars in port fees plus massive licenses needed just to import.
If we're going to have tariffs on small shipments, you need to make it easier to pay the tariff. It took my university a month to figure out how to ship a specialty power electronics component to Australia and back for repair.
💯 Agree!
As a customs broker in Australia I can tell you it is not that hard.
@@DavidMcCann-pz2sm Bullshit. I worked international import-export all over the world, shipping desk for twelve years, and it's a f-ing nightmare.
@@davidgoodnow269first off.. cant believe youtubeski allowed you to curse... wow havent seen that allowed in a while.. also the guy above isnt lying and he is a chief of exportation there
@@davidgoodnow269the guy above is one of the top shippers apparently.. so he isnt lying.. resume and reports have his experience and its very big experiences
TEMU Ads always pop up.....I don't take the bait
Once I purchased something from Temu, my pc started getting virus attacks...Be aware.
@@HoboEAT That's why I ignore all of them 👍
I am a land locked auto tech and really enjoy Sal and Wgows. Thank you
everything we buy is shipped. it matters to everyone on the planet.
Man how am I going to get my $2 pizza slicer/allen wrench/flashlight combo from Temu?
Once I purchased something from Temu, my pc started getting virus attacks...Be aware.
And my 75 cent hot plate? 😫
Ya I ordered Biday but got it at night...
@@maverickmyrtlebeach 🤣
Temu is bad for so many reasons including if its app is put on your phone... very not smart to use
Very informative as usual & potentially very significant for deglobalisation from now on.
I wonder if could cover this issue i came across in an UK independent news paper online article
"Sailor stuck at sea for years highlights the surge in owners abandoning ships" & back pay for these sailors being withheld or very difficult to chase up.
Sal, As always a pleasure to watch your reports.
@10:02 the de minimus table is in units of "value at the time of import", we assume in USD.
Keep the good work. You teach all of us tuition free and outside your lecture hall!
Sal, thanks for highlighting this issue. When the de minimis increased to $800 a lot of companies shifted their e-commerce shipments to bonded warehouses in Canada and Mexico. This helps with more than just the duty. It helped with the compliance because you didn't need to do a full HTS classification to get the goods clear. However, over time it expanded into these freighters full of de minimis shipments from China. It certainly made commerce easier. Unfortunately, it became a conduit for illegal goods as well so this benefit for US consumers will likely get taken away.
I fully expect see what we saw long ago from other chinese companys. They will do mass shipments of products to their own warehouses in the US and then ship to customers from there (avoiding the de minimus issues). Products will likely go by sea. Customers will see a price hike. The goods will continue to flow.
From what I have observed over the years the Chinese are good at figuring out a way around anything.
We really need to just ban anything and everything from China. They are intentionally committing economic warfare. And furthermore, their products are dangerous to life and limb. There is a girl in the UK that had to get skin grafts from using a substandard beauty product ONE TIME that she got from Temu. Ban it all.
Price increase is the key though, they're subject to tariffs that way
Abusing the de minimus system is how they were avoiding tariffs. All that is going on here is CBP enforcing existing law to shut down the abuse. Chinese companies have been free riding the de minimus system aka cheating.
Price increases would reflect a return to “correct pricing” based on non-cheating, benefiting us in the long run.
They arent better at figuring anything out, its just shamelessness combined with state assistance which sets them apart.
"The goods will continue to flow."
The issue is the tax evasion, not the goods.
What I dont like is buying something on Amazon and then discovering it's coming directly from CHINA and that 2 days later it hadnt even been SHIPPED yet and has to go thru customs there and here and bla bla bla, I usually cancel the order if I see that, but some of them work an Amazon loophole they found and immediately mark the item as "shipped" because they PRINTED a shipping label, and then you can't cancel it because it's already been marked as "shipped"
Instant gratification is not a problem
I had an ecommerce company in the animal feed business, it was a nightmare trying to do anything international, even exporting to Canada was awful. I always thought export/import was pretty free and open but its not at all and it's getting worse by the day. Hell in the animal feed business even selling between states could be expensive and hard. They made a bunch of rules and regulations that they claim is for food safety but no one ever goes and tests the feed or does any inspections they just Make you jump through hoops doing a bunch of paperwork and then pay them a fee for the privilege. Feed is no safer or more dangerous than before the government just gets more revenue. This is when i really realized that i am a small government person and any large organization be it corporate or government bureaucracy eventually creates its own level of insanity and creates incentives that do not actually imorove the lives of its customers or citizens.
If the Feds really want to re-industrialize the US, rigorous customs inspections may be the only way to hold back the illegal, the dangerous and the cheap. It is perhaps the only lever that they have in their tool box; oh, that and snapping on the rubber gloves at the private airports where the corporate glitterati fly back to from wheeler-dealing. It all begs the question: what constitutes a foreign agent?
Don't forget about regulations. Some are good but there are so many that opening a business, especially one that produces physical items, is you're near impossible.
@@bryanshoemaker6120 In that case the US military capability is severely constrained if it relies on imported goods.
A "Foreign Agent" has thick hair between his (or her) shoulder blades.
@@bryanshoemaker6120 If the US is on the war ramp, It is perhaps useful to examine how the US government took over war-materiel production in 1942. It is fascinating to see how the public, media and elected representatives etc fail to take into account the eminent possibilities (as Sal's "rants' about the Jones Act demonstrates). I wonder whether there is a secret US government "Department of Emergency Powers' which is never spoken of apart from its base - the Pentagon?. [You, you and you! ...Are "invited' to start making.. [Continued on Page 94]
@@bryanshoemaker6120 Consumer safety regulation such as lead in toys, electric components that are non-compliant, banned flame retardants etc. is very important. Yeah, you get the odd banning of kinder eggs in the US, but nearly all of it is really important.
Customs ACE system is buckling under these entries. Just this past week we saw 2-4 hour delays on ACE postings due to this type of cargo.
In the UK we have a serious problem with people importing US sweets (candy). Most seem to contain illegal Ingredients.
Like what?
@vladimus9749
•Brominated Vegetable oil (BVO)
• E127, Erythrosine
• Mineral Oil
• Bleached Flour
• Sunset yellow FCF (E110)
• quinoline yellow (E104)
• carmoisine (E122)
• allura red (E129)
• tartrazine (E102) - Yellow 5
• ponceau 4R (E124)
• Calcium disodium EDTA (E385)
• Erythorbic acid (E315)
@@_Ben4810 I find it interesting (and horrifying) that a lot of chemical ingredients our government says are safe to eat are apparently not as safe as we've led to believe. Apparently there are quite a few things banned in the EU & UK that are in our (US) food supply. 😢
We have a problem with importing British engineering 😭
@@_Ben4810who can blame the Brits? Mineral oil is delicious!
They need to stop giving China the shipping discount for poorer countries. Give us Americans some shipping discounts so we can compete in our own country, instead of paying ten times as much to mail something one tenth as far!
That’s not the prob guy
@@pecan11 it absolutely IS a problem.
Chinese companies are exploiting US taxpayers to subsidize their shipping.
To say nothing of all their other shady tactics destroying fair competition
You have this backwards.
International Postal Airmail rates are set in-country to cover the cost of delivery _to the delivering country._
From there, *_all costs are on the delivering country._* _Quid pro quo._ I do this for you, you do the same for me.
Labor, across the board, is cheaper in People's Republic of China than in the United States of America. So their airmail rate is lower.
In the 1950s, Americans bought all kinds of stuff in and from Europe, because of the buying power of the dollar. The dollar has been devalued to about 1/100th of what it was worth, then, at retail. A 5¢ hamburger is $5, a 5¢ gallon of high-octane is now $5, a new car was $400-500, now $40-50,000; a three-bedroom family home was $10-25,000 depending on city and region, now, rather higher. Food price inputs have not even kept up at that increase; producers get less for their product, and the difference is absorbed by processors to counter actual costs.
Efforts to increase supply of cheap labor in the US never touch the costs of manufacturing, and have little and limited influence on transportation and deliveries; it simultaneously increases demand for housing, fuel, energy, medical care -- it only ensures that the labor market is fluid enough to resist demand for pay based on value of labor.
Why does the postman get paid so well? It is a position of extremely high trust, that damn few people who are trustworthy want. Rain, sleet, hail, or snow, summer heat, muggers, and dogs, and constantly under monitoring and supervision with a crap-ton of paperwork. Who needs it?
Versus China, where *everyone* is under that degree of supervisory harassment and B.S. paperwork, the entire civilization is *extremely low-trust* with payoffs and "gifts" to get anything done or even just keep your job, so *why wouldn't postmen be paid less than a dog-walking neighbor kid?*
Good Luck with THAT ONE !
@@davidgoodnow269I wish people would stop trying to turn the clock back. Consumer goods are not what America needs to be in the business of. The American economy of today is based on services, pharmaceutical, agriculture, weapons, entertainment, etc. Nobody is buying American toasters.
Saw you on the NOVA episode of Why Ships Crash….you really nailed it!!!
I switched to air from sea for my shipping (@$10,000 per shipment) the convenience of avoiding rail to the middle of the country offsets the extra cost.
Which really illustrates how hard Class 1 railroads in North America have dropped the ball. Rail should be the CHEAPEST/most efficient/most convienient mode.
Rail presents a huge opportunity to electrify long-haul transport. The problem is that North American rail companies are currently obsessed with "precision scheduled railroading". This is a system of cost-cutting involving running overly long trains to save on infrastructure and staffing costs. The problems are:
1. Long trains no longer fit in sidings, so trains can't pass one another
2. Long trains get delayed, so staff are forced to work unpredictable hours
3. The lack of scheduling means that the railroads can only move low-value bulk freight.
A few years ago I tried to get a quote for shipping a car across Canada by rail. The shipper gave me a quote by truck instead. If the railroads had shorter, more frequent, scheduled, trains: they would be able to move more valuable cargo, including passengers.
9:27 Pretty sure these numbers are counts of discrete shipments, not volume in the sense of space.
That sounds plausible. On the other hand, one billion shipments is only three per US resident per year, which doesn't seem like a lot.
The UAW needs a 100% tariff on EV'S to give the US automakers time to move their production to Mexico. 😢
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You do not understand how the cross-border automotive industry works. Everything that can be shifted to Mexico already has been shifted to Mexico. Suppliers are on both sides of the border, and they manufacture subcomponents and components on both sides of the border that each get assembled in their respective countries (mostly high end vehicles in the U.S., mostly economy vehicles in Mexico).
There is still an import tax to bring a Mexican assembled car into the U.S. and a U.S. assembled car into Mexico.
If you’re a UAW member, you ought to educate yourself further on how NAFTA 2.0 works. NAFTA 3.0 negotiations begin in 2026 (with NAFTA 2.0 being in force until 2030 iirc).
We ought to have a single flat tariff on everything. 25% or so. Whatever achieves maximum revenue.
@skenzyme81 How about free trade to any country that agrees to free traid with us.
UAW is a mess.
I attempted to purchases a joystick and throttle combo from VKB. The VKB website had a notice saying any order over $800 would have a 25% tariff applied once the shipment reached the US. VKB didn't charge the 25%, the 25% would be charged by someone in the US. Not sure how it would have worked out, since I didn't end up moving forward with the purchase.
Free On Board -- tariff payment is Cash On Delivery.
Oooh, except the postal delivery people cannot take cash anymore, so that's a Will-Call at the Post Office.
I worked international shipping and receiving for a major import-export business, at the shipping desk for twelve years. So, yay! Today I get to be a know-it-all!
Company: We had a 99.9999% compliance rate
Government: Okay noting it down. Failure to comply...
Yes, they only had a few hundred packages of fentanyl.
Or may be a few dozen. They knew the risk they took it.
Great video Sal, i do use online shopping most of which i get from local i.e. Canada or USA shipments, I know some of it is Chinese made and do my best to keep it North American, which simply means it is warehoused here, with the exception of camera gear i get , it comes from Japan, i pay more shipping cost and get what i need for it and don't mind paying for it, it is higher quality than what comes out of China and a business that I've used for years, whole heartedly agree with stopping the illegal garbage coming into our countries 👍
You know that the majority of goods are made with imported parts. America only assembled, package, market and charge you extra for it.
Whoever taught it was a good idea to ask China to develop their supply chain and manufacturing for us are fools.
They killed the US engineering and manufacturing for a quick buck, not thinking about what will happens after.
Often times paying air freight + 0% tax via de minimis is cheaper than ocean freight + formal entry, so this enforcement will definitely have some effect on air freight.
I sent out an email to 18 people to share your story & linked to your site & this story 👍💯% as always. Thanx Sal 😜
Very interesting. I happen to live in Arizona on the southern border. Real shame they don't secure the border. Drug seizures are made almost daily.
Keep voting for those Demoncrats.
@@HoboEAT Fentanyl deaths went up 300% from 2017-2020 under Donald.
Drugs flow into the country daily from all over the world, using numerous methods. How many drug mules do you think show up at the airports all day long from overseas? I've had jury duty 3 times. Each case was drugs brought in through BWI Airport. That's just the rare few that got caught. They keep doing it because it works a very high percentage of the time.
@@HoboEAT Fentanyl deaths increased 300% from 2017-2020. Let's not forget Reagan granted 3 million undocumented migrants asylum in 1986.. which started the immigration crisis.
@@lettucesalad3560 Sure...Typically blame history instead of addressing today's administration of misfits.
I buy a LOT of stuff from China. Because that is where it is made. Electronics parts, adapters, test device equipment and a bunch of other stuff. Some of it is junk. Some of it is VERY well made. I am also mobility disabled, so I depend on shipping to my door.
Where are we going to get these things from now? We don't make crap in the US anymore. Europe, especially Germany is going out of business due to energy costs. So not from here, not from Germany, not from China, not from Russia (yes, they make some things that nobody else makes). So we have high inflation, food shortages, bank failures, commercial chain store/restaurant failures, etc. We cannot continue this BS or we are not going to make it as a population, much less as a nation.
Hey bro, don't let the propaganda get you down. How is USA enforcing its own laws stopping anyone from getting anything? I'm curious, what does Russia make that no one else makes? (aside from war and obvious propaganda?) Are you talking about electronics? 🤭 They're stealing washing machine from Ukraine to make missiles. The Chinese Communist Party hasn't invented anything in 90 years except better ways to steal ideas sell knockoffs on Wish, Temu, Ali Express etc. This makes it almost impossible for small companies to operate, let alone innovate. We cannot continue to allow this BS or we are not going to make it as a population, much less a nation.
They're not banning shipments from China 😂
Germany is not going out of business due to energy costs. Germany is going out of business because they chose to allow the environMENTALists into guilt-shaming them into poverty for using “fossil fuels” (what a ridiculous name), and going along with the carbon tax nonsense. Selling things isn’t “green”, remember?
This is also to avoid tarrifs. This is part of why shein and temu are so cheap. china is the big fish in this matter, but they are not alone.
and also to avoid consumer safety regulation
Everything arriving from mainland China needs to be inspected, not just the mini goods under $800.
How can U yanks begin to inspect when U can't even identify genders?
$800??? That’s such a a low threshold for e-commerce companies. Seems like it’s going to have a very minimum impact. I work at a fairly small eCommerce company, and we never have a shipment from China under $10k.
Remember that alot of it is individuals buying directly from China. Like often times if I'm not in a hurry for something, I'll buy a item on eBay that ships directly out of China and it'll be like $5 at a time.
USA has a huge de minimis limit compared to most. Canada's is $40 Canadian (~$30 USD)
Outstanding analysis and commentary as usual Sal. It’s so refreshing to get relevant and timely news & information without political spin! Thank you!
Ship accidents are less dangerous in the Mediterranean. Apparently walking on water is a big thing near there.
I am going to say the CPB de minimis table numbers come from the table title Section 321 BOLS (De Minimis), where BOLS are Bill of Ladings.
Hi Sal,I remember a year or two ago on the TV there was a program on the border customs patrol staff here in the UK. They showed a working model grand piano made out of compressed drugs with a black shiny finish. The thing must have measured at least 18"to 2' and weighed quite a bit from memory. The skills to make it boggles the mind. I think that they valued the drugs somewhere between 1/4 to 1/2 a million pounds. So I assume that by now it's around £1000000 today's value?
Love the book in the background 'I Love That You're My Dad' Wonder about the back story to that Sal as it looks like a deliberate placement.
That is a gift from my son.
At Big Brown we’re required to check every single package going through our system. Tens of Millions have been spent on our part meeting CBP’s regs to provide that kind of capability to the tune of 1-3+ million packages a night in capacity.
…it’s about time the CBP did something about the “discount” air cargo shippers who’ve skirted the same scrutiny in their own logistics systems for years now.
Royal Media/ Air Cargo World has to have a concise article on this cargo policy.
Very timely information about contraband in shipments of temu and one other I didn't catch the name of. Explains how temu can sell so cheaply. I knew something about it was a scam.
Thank you Sal a voice of reason in a unreasonable world.
Wonder how much more will be coming now through United Parcel, Fed-Ex and others like that.
Although I have never seen or heard of noncompliant shipments, I have wondered how this was going knowing the tendency of Chinese and others to ignore the laws and regulations.
Shipping is already a mess and has been for a long time. For instance, can you imagine a self-respecting ship captain accepting a container listed on the manifest as "oily rags?" This happened so long ago that I cannot now recall the details, but it was in the news.
Oily Rags + Naptha Lighter Fluid self combusts
@@user-mp3eq6ir5bin the states, osha safety requires an oily rag approved container which eliminates all fire potential.
there is a small container made for the states specifically to discard oily rags with no oxygen in the container. Also, islands cannot discard them so they pile up in the caribbean and other places until they can export it for proper burial somewhere else
you pay someone enough, they look the other way.
@@dertythegrowerThank you for that information. I was not aware that special containers for oily rags are available.
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Like fisheries inspectors, CBP ahould have people on inbound ships doing inspections. Better yet, inspections at mfgs, consolidators, and where containers are loaded and sealed. The stuff is getting in through very creative ways.
You think China would allow CBP inspectors at their ports? You think Chinese shippers would allow CBP inspectors at their warehouses? I don't.
I buy a lot of small products from manufacturers directly from China and the import is starting to get harder. Some products are coming up on tariffs mainly microchips
It's about time. When I order something from Amazon or other sellers and it suddenly isn't coming for a couple weeks or more, it's coming from China and it is often a knockoff of a brand name. Obvious from the packaging. I bet every major name brand corporation would provide free representatives at the ports to help CBP identify counterfeit goods. A little legislation, if it does not exist, allowing authorities to destroy any identified goods would stop this quickly. This would also save jobs of those in this country who might actually be involved in the production of the genuine articles. You could require the Temu's of the world to originate their shipments from US locations making it even easier to investigate incoming shipments or just charge Customs Duty on each incoming parcel, This would easily pay for the extra required manpower and create jobs.
Rich. Allowing military age Chinese men through the border, but stopping products?
Sal, the info we get from your vids is valuable and interesting and informative.
In this case tho, it seemed a lil like you were blaming/chastizing the Feds for causing a backup in the inspections when in fact, the criminal behavior is THE issue...you mention the "understatement of value", "fentanyl", and "drug making paraphernalia" as if the 3 are somehow similar in nature....in context however, two cause dead people in our country and the former is a loss of tax revenue.....lets not equate those outcomes.
Lets blame the Chinese criminal activity, not the enforcement of very valuable laws.
Oh cool, now I can just ship my fentanyl from Vietnam or Thailand, and since CFB is so tied up inspecting temu packages I’m pretty much guaranteed to get it through. This is ridiculous.
This type of shipping has to be skyrocketing as that's how TEMU ships to avoid taxes and keep products crazy cheap.
As e-commerce exporters put their strategies in place they should be aware of some of the fundamental rules and regulations surrounding duties and taxes. In particular, rules governing low value shipments. This is where businesses first come across the term ‘de minimis’.
Tighter security on the me ican border? Where is that exactly?
Years ago a local printer would take in jobs dispatch them to China and get them back in a week or so. The quality was fine the clients were happy and the "printer" was laughing all the way to the bank. Local printers didn't even know of the jobs because they were not on price and not on service time. No doubt these jobs all came into the country falsely declared for economy.
Is this why my tea keeps getting stuck in LA for a week on it's way from China?
It's possible that FDA & USDA could be holding up your shipments for inspection of the tea from China. It's not not just US Customs involved with imports and clearances.
Fast moving fashion is BIGGEST engermy to enviroments now!!! There must be something to make it changed!!!
Correct me if I'm wrong, but it looks like we're starting to get constipated with all the crap we buy.
Yay, team!
You’re wrong.
Still believe that honesty is the best policy. Probably there should be a minimum tariff that that could be refunded if the importer can prove that the commercial invoice valuations are the same as the paid price and that there is no contraband in the shipment. Else they should pay the difference and the penalty.
Thank you Sal. Really appreciated this.
Was in an argument with a couple Ccp shills a few weeks ago on twitter and they were trying to tell me that china was not the main source of america's fentanyl problem. Thanks for exposing a route 😂😢😂 the tear that it is actually being done.
I use Aliexpress on a weekly basis I sure hope that they don't slow down my shipments with this inspection process.
Now that you mention it, those two young guys running in the upcoming election will use this issue in the election, as they should.
Biden is a cuck to China tho. Why the Dems hosted that BS in San Francisco
So frustrating - How can we STOP criminality from ruining our world? Time was I could order, ship and receive all sorts of (LEGAL) stuff for myself or friends & family around the world. It was great, lovely little surprises which really made folk's day. But in recent years the Fun Police have been out in force and for the most part I can't do this any more - tariffs on small gifts - say into England where they even TAX the recipient on the cost of shipping means I do not buy anything from overseas and ship into UK and my family and friends are the poorer for it - my local economy suffers too, as I don't buy unique products to send overseas, so the shippers also struggle... It really is sad and so many suffer on account of some sorry criminals ruining it for the honest world.
And meanwhile on the Southern Border, USA & English Channel, UK criminals and undocumented persons are flooding over the borders in countless illegal transactions & Border Infractions...
Yup, China is a "developing country", so they get massive subsidies, from us, to ship letters and small items. This is an old postal rule, back when mass global shipping and ecommerce didn't exist. To see how much your Aliexpress package SHOULD cost, get a shipping estimate to China from your post office one of these days.
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I'm all for "a rising tide raises all boats" but *when you open the lock/dam while keeping your ship tied fast-to-the-hard and drop your own anchor in the name of "fairness"...*
It's always something, isn't it! Thanks for keeping us updated.
The more I learn, the more I wonder if any kind of control is ever going to stop, or even slow the drug trafficers ?
No, because it is well-documented that CIA Official Cover Agents working in the Customs & Immigration Service ensure all "official" Cartel shipments go through smoothly, in exchange for introductions and support overseas. You can look up the San Jose Mercury-News series on it, around 1992 I think it was; but I ran across them *many* times in my years working import-export.
The key is to reduce demand. Treatment if drug addiction, education, prevention and as strange as it sounds, decriminalization have been proven to work. As long as there is a thriving private prison industry and as long as poor people are treated as criminals then the trade in drugs is very profitable. It's very unpopular to get at the causes of people seeking drugs in the first place. If you have enough money you can get all the drugs you can handle with little suspicion.
It's a difficult problem, but the "war on drugs" conducted by ever increasing penalties and stigmatizing the users has not worked and has made the drug trade very profitable.
@@davidgoodnow269 Ollie North is now gone, thank heavens,
@@georgewest2096 But the CIA isn't, and _it_ controls all drug traffic that enters through official ports.
Of course, the drugs coming through the U.S. Army's Fort Huachuca composed 70% of all drugs trafficked in the central United States of America. But that was due to the Cartel across the border from Arizona infiltrating Army Administrative positions to pressure soldiers to not interfere with the mules carrying drugs through it. You report a sighting, and your next-of-kin get firebombed; so that Cartel has basically owned that U.S. military base since the late 1980s.
Meanwhile, the southern border is wide open?
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Wow! That's awful. I'm pretty sure nobody snoops around in our packages from China. The ability to buy anything for a great price is the whole point of it. Surely??
It’s the big box stores who are lobbying for the crackdown on e-commerce. They know they’re in trouble.
Maybe the US should just stop buying so much Chinese sweatshop crap. Or just stop buying so much, period.
Then our stores wouldn't have any inventory to sell. Empty shelves as far as the eye can see.
Whaaa? How *dare* you question our right to gross consumerism? 😂
Do you make any of those things? I wonder if you have any knowledge on how to make them.
That will never happen............The US is no longer a manufacturing nation. We want everything for nothing and we want it now, but we are unwilling to produce it ourselves. We've made the bed and now we have to sleep in it. Cut off the Asian supply chain and we are totally f#cked.
Maybe you should sell everything you own and live in a cave. Who says everything you choose to own isn’t crap?
The Black Horse rides. If you need something, best get it now, as in now.
Guess we have to update “this is why we can’t have nice stuff” to “this is why we can’t have cheap tchotchkes.”
Families and small businesses rely on these small tools and replacement parts. The costs always go to the consumer. They could instead focus on securing the border.
I'll never order anything from Temu or Shein. Cheap slave made garbage. Heck, I don't even like to buy from Amazon. Try to buy local whenever I can.
Unsure if it would be e-commerce, but Kickstarter projects are often shipped via sea. (My experience is in board games funded via Kickstarter.)
Thanks, Sal. Shipping via different transportation modes is all related somehow.
I suspect a lot of this sort of stuff coming from China (from sources like ebay) to Australia comes via container, as I have noticed that you will get a rush of goods ordered from China over a several weeks, gets delivered a month or two later over a period of 2 or 3 days, most of it being repacked and sent via the local mail system.
The cheap stuff gets sent in a large box to another country with cheap postage and then forwarded from there. That's part of why it takes so long. I got an item from AliExpress that came via Emirates Post. Took about five months.
These days AE has their own logistics from China to Australia. They combine shipments from multiple sellers in China, send large batches by air, then split them up for local delivery via various parties. Takes about 7 days.
I'm buying some STNG stock after watching your "New Years" episode with the Portfolio guy.
Finally im number one. Well other than sal.
Thanks for all you do Sal from one of the many Terra Firma viewers
Does this relate to dumping?
Another outstanding/informative report!
Why just Shien and Temu there's Ali Express and Wish that trade from China
Also a lot of stuff on eBay and Amazon these days is shipped from China.
Volume.
Hey sal, did you see the 4 star that was indicted for bribery?
Ah yes, Temu. But seriously, I was wondering when the sleeping CBP would wake up to this issue. It's been a good way to get all sorts of strange and illicit items in with not much risk.
Gee I wonder if Amazon has some influence on this temu volume stoppage...
This is really good coverage - I read a lot of random things but this is the first I've heard of this.
Hey Sal what are your thoughts on club k missile systems?
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hey Sal why didnt you tell us about admiral burke ?????
That is a mess but not surprising.
Each container carries old plastic water. Many cases of water in plastic.
Thanks for the update Sal
Yes, we presume containers are used to export stolen cars. No chance of stopping that.
I am confused why cant the USA build Larger Inspection Ports
Less money my man
Because fully funding federal programs is "socialism" 😂
@@Heterogeneity well to be fair, passing the funding requires making deals with the Satan worshiping pedophillic antifa party trying to destroy America. /s
"The Wana Bhum wants to come along-side. And no, I am not kidding." Ref. Moes Bar - The Simpsons.
Merely more protectionism of US companies as China puts US manufacturers to shame.
If the US govt was so concerned about fentanyl the southern border would be closely guarded.
Enjoyed the presentation.
Understanding De Minimis for E-Commerce Exporters