{"id":70324,"date":"2025-05-03T05:21:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-03T05:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/70324\/"},"modified":"2025-05-03T05:21:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-03T05:21:09","slug":"higher-prices-await-us-buyers-of-small-china-shipments-as-trump-trade-war-tariffs-bite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/70324\/","title":{"rendered":"Higher prices await US buyers of small China shipments as Trump trade war tariffs bite"},"content":{"rendered":"

Leela Roye, a senior at Boston University, has been too busy thinking about final exams and college graduation to focus much on US President Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s tariff threats and impending US- China trade war<\/a>.But Roye is surrounded by classmates who love the cheap prices of online Chinese retail sites like Shein<\/a> and Temu is aware those prices could rise dramatically starting on Saturday.<\/p>\n

\u201cA lot of people, especially in college, shop in those places because the prices are so low compared to things you can find in the US,\u201d said the 21-year-old film major. \u201cEspecially people my age will be upset because things that they have relied on, cheap alternatives, will go up.\u201d<\/p>\n

On Friday, after months of headlines and looming threats, almighty American consumers are set to get their first direct taste of Trump\u2019s tumultuous tariff policies when a key loophole on small, imported shipments \u2013 the \u201cde minimis\u201d provision \u2013 slams shut.<\/p>\n

This assumes that the mercurial president, who has called the loophole a \u201cscam\u201d and conduit for illegal drugs, does not reverse himself as he did ahead of a similar deadline in February.<\/p>\n

For almost a century, a once obscure provision with a rarefied Latin name has allowed American consumers to enjoy foreign products without the expense or hassle of dealing with customs forms and duties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Leela Roye, a senior at Boston University, has been too busy thinking about final exams and college graduation…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70325,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3090],"tags":[35244,3801,35247,51,1395,28901,35245,32,1700,31305,3841,35248,8162,31868,35249,16,15,978,35246,35243],"class_list":{"0":"post-70324","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-asia-society-policy-institute","9":"tag-beijing","10":"tag-boston-university","11":"tag-business","12":"tag-china","13":"tag-chinese-companies","14":"tag-de-minimis","15":"tag-donald-trump","16":"tag-economy","17":"tag-general-motors","18":"tag-pew-research-center","19":"tag-sandler","20":"tag-shein","21":"tag-temu","22":"tag-travis-rosenberg","23":"tag-uk","24":"tag-united-kingdom","25":"tag-us","26":"tag-us-census-bureau","27":"tag-us-consumers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114442225818467829","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70324\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}