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Some brilliant entrepreneurs have surely already started repackaging businesses in Canada and Mexico.
No so, from the article:
Daniel, the owner of a trucking company based in Alberta, Canada, who asked to only use his first name for privacy reasons, tells WIRED that two of his company’s trucks were turned away at the US border in New York and Montana today because they contained packages originally from China. After speaking with a US Customs and Border Protection agent in Montana, the company was able to get a third truck into Washington state by removing all packages from China, Daniel says.
Yeeees, and the idea is to repackage the items so that the packages are not originally from China. Now it's a Canadian export!
Now it’s a Canadian export!
And subject to tariffs because why not
That's why you gotta get this shit set up ASAP
The way I read it, the entrepreneur is Bezos - he has his own planes etc. and does not need USPS. You have to buy Chinese stuff from him now. (I have not researched the subject in depth - this is just my take on the headline)
Bezos would still be subject tot he same import tariffs, the same Customs issues.
The way I read it is they just created a huge new workload for Customs without funding the resources to do it. Unless we make huge changes to how sites like Amazon works, now Customs needs to have an input in every one of the millions of packages directly sent from over seas every day.
USPS is smart to say there’s no way to make it work all of the sudden, but it ought to affect everyone.
….. I see a more recent post that some form of sanity prevailed. If we’re going to instigate trade wars out of spite, let’s at least have a transition where we can try to figure out how to make it work
The headline is updated on the article itself; USPS has resumed accepting such packages.
Open article:
Folks like you are why I love lemmy. Thanks!
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Is there a way to just automate this with a bot or something?
A huge number of users block bots
DeJoy is still there, yes? Isn't it weird how an unelected asshat like fElon can fire employees of the government who were basically nonpartisan, not to mention dismantle agencies, as part of a fake "agency".
But somehow, in 4 years of the Biden administration a partisan hack like DeJoy kept his job....
The situation regarding Dejoy is not so simple.
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Want your package from chaina? Pay the tariffs!
~...then very humbly ask the Chinese government to refund you those tariff costs....~