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Shipping to the U.S. well forget it !

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Gspragge

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They are only hurting themselves. I will no longer even bother to try to ship to the U.S. now.
The US has announced that the de minimis exemption for imports (the threshold below which imported goods won’t need to be charged duties and fees) from all countries will be eliminated as of August 29th 2025. It’s crucial to understand how this change may impact your shipments.

Duties and customs clearance: Starting August 29th, all shipments to the US—regardless of value—will be subject to applicable duties and customs clearance. As of this date, Canada Post has advised that its current Delivered Duty Unpaid (DDU) shipping services to the US (Tracked PacketTM USA, Expedited ParcelTM USA, or XpresspostTM USA) are not compliant with these changes.

There is a significant risk that non-compliant shipments arriving to the US beyond August 29th will be returned to the sender. Therefore, effective August 25th these Canada Post services will be disabled on eBay Labels.
 
Dutch post also stops shipping packages to the US due to unclarity per direct. Apparantly most EU postal services are working together to get it resolved.
 
Some of that makes sense but it hurts the collector not engaging in Chinese commerce. And anything I send will
have to go by courrier costing much more. Now it states gifts between indidviduals are exempt - but I think country of origin will
play a part.
 
One would think our government would give a break to individuals selling antiques. Even companies. It's not like there is a U.S. company selling genuine, inert bomb fuses or time pencils that is being hurt by foreign imports. It might be difficult to carve out exemptions from the new rules.

In any case, one effect will be price increases for the buyer. It might or might not be significant to him or her. The other effect will be how the duty is charged. How shippers, Ebay, and other middlemen adapt to it, or they lose business.
 
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