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“China has upped its retaliatory tariffs on US imports to 125%, escalating the trade war between the world’s two biggest economic powers, which has tanked international markets and fueled fears of a global recession. Chinese leader Xi Jinping struck a defiant tone in his first public comments on the trade war, saying his nation was “not afraid.”

“China has upped its retaliatory tariffs on US imports to 125%, escalating the trade war between the world’s two biggest economic powers, which has tanked international markets and fueled fears of a global recession. Chinese leader Xi Jinping struck a defiant tone in his first public comments on the trade war, saying his nation was “not afraid.”

https://edition.cnn.com/politics/live-news/trump-presidency-news-administration-tariffs-04-11-25/index.html

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imaging thinking we have the infrastructure to inspect and tariff the multiple millions of packages that come each day from china. gonna cost more than the tariffs

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Why do people think this infrastructure doesn’t existand doesn’t already happen? My company imports goods, tariffs are not new they just weren’t this insane before.

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because there was an exception that exempted the millions of small packages that come in per day from temu shein whatever cuz they were under $800 but that was removed for china (&hong kong) specifically  so now every single order from those places need to be inspected and collected

I get that, but people are acting like the infrastructure isn’t there is not true. Do you have to hire workers and perhaps modify a system for those smaller goods yes, but acting like we don’t already import and inspect and process tariffs for millions of goods is not accurate. 

I agree it will create problems and bottleneck but it’s not going from 0-100.

ok so like currently the US processes 107,000 shipments for tariffs per day. this increases the workload to about 2.5million shipments for tarrifs per day with zero preparation

Can you cite some sources on that info, I’d like to read more. But again bottleneck yes but the process exists to do it. 

Most likely though the result is going to be those smaller goods shipments being abandoned at the port bc no one will pay the tariffs.

that's just mentioning total per year but it's 60% chinese merch from businesses like shein and temu which is now not exempt etc. we can do anything i'm not saying it's impossible although it doesn't look like a task id want. ps im kinda thinking we could tone down the consumer mania and restrict the unlimited supply of cheap trinkets from china or wherever too but thats a different subject kinda.

that's just mentioning total per year but it's 60% chinese merch from businesses like shein and temu which is now not exempt etc. we can do anything i'm not saying it's impossible although it doesn't look like a task id want. ps im kinda thinking we could tone down the consumer mania and restrict the unlimited supply of cheap trinkets from china or wherever too but thats a different subject kinda. 

https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/national-media-release/cbp-proposes-new-rule-strengthen-enforcement-and-limit-duty

https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/typical-day-fy2022

Can you cite some sources on that info, I’d like to read more. But again bottleneck yes but the process exists to do it. 

Most likely though the result is going to be those smaller goods shipments being abandoned at the port bc no one will pay the tariffs. 

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/09/trump-tariffs-port-pileup-coming-as-cash-short-ceos-reject-orders.html