Update on tariffs on China products shipped to US.
This is an update on the tariff situation on products shipped from China to the US.
Reason: China has had high tariffs on US products for decades. At first Trump raised the tariffs on Chinese products to be the same on US products. China didn’t want to negotiate. Then Trump raised tariffs even higher. China still didn’t want to negotiate and many manufacturing companies in China, and supporting companies are closing. Many people are being laid off by the millions.
The problems in China did not start with the tariffs being raised in March of 2025. The problems started many years ago with many Chinese construction companies using sub-par, highly dangerous materials to build their own infrastructure and the buildings and roads for other countries. Now those buildings, bridges and roads are collapsing.
Beginning on May 2, 2025, tariffs per package for each package from China will be $100usd. Starting on June 2, 2025, tariffs per package for each package from China will be $200usd. I don’t know how they are going to get Americans to pay for that. Will US Customs hold the package for the user and ask them to pay the tariff? How will they find the user, by the address on the label? They won’t have the buyer’s email address, that will not be on the outside of the package normally.
Meanwhile China continues to build warehouses in Vietnam, Cambodia, and other nearby countries to ship its goods from to cheat the system and avoid the tariffs on products going to the US. And the US raises tariffs on products from these countries as well.
The US president simply wants the country’s leader to negotiate for fair and even tariffs, nothing more.
After some searching I was unable to find any detailed information on tariff amounts or other deadlines. If you have a link to a site with more details, please post it in the comments.
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For examples of poor Chinese construction around the world see this link.
For examples of all kinds of problems China has been having since 2022 and earlier, click here.
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As long as we can get real, NEEDED items, none of this bothers me. It's like Canada's tariffs of 270% to us, compared to our, something like, 0.25% tariffs to them. Screw that noise!