Chinese merchants selling to US customers online are looking to raise prices to offset the new tariffs imposed by the Trump administration and rising shipping costs after the United States Postal Service (USPS) stopped receiving parcels from mainland China and Hong Kong this week.
She was asked to pay 35 per cent more for textile shipments and 25 per cent more for other merchandise to cover tariffs and customs clearance. Gu said she was discussing with her business partners whether to raise the prices of their products.
The de minimis policy, which allowed small packages worth less than US$800 to enter the US duty-free, played a major role in driving the growth of China’s cross-border e-commerce industry. Nearly half of all packages shipped under de minimis came from China, the US congressional committee on China said in a report in June 2023.
