All of your international packages are about to get more expensive

President Donald Trump signed an enforcement bid connected Wednesday that volition suspend the de minimis exemption — which allows packages with goods valued little than $800 to participate the US duty-free — for each countries. Earlier this year, Trump ended the de minimis exemption for goods from China and Hong Kong.

The White House says the alteration goes into effect connected August 29th. Per the enforcement order, for the adjacent six months, goods shipped done the planetary postal strategy volition either beryllium charged the level tariff complaint based connected state of root (an advertisement valorem duty) oregon a circumstantial work ranging from $80 to $200 per item. After six months, each duties volition beryllium calculated arsenic advertisement valorem duties.

The White House’s statement for ending the exemption is that packages utilizing it are “subject to little scrutiny than accepted imports” and could “pose health, safety, nationalist and economical information risks.” The White House claims that 98 percent of narcotics seizures (by “number of cases”) are from de minimis shipments. It besides says that low-value packages from China and Hong Kong accounted for “the bulk of de minimis shipments to the United States.”