*Executive order to end duty-free entry for cheap Chinese goods caught package carriers off guard *U.S. Postal Service has no system in place to collect tariffs or remit them to U.S. government *As packages piled up, White House had to pause its own order

  • Diplomjodler@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    Closing this loophole is the right thing to do. But the cackhanded idiocy with which it was done is… well, just par for the course.

    • Corkyskog
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      4 days ago

      Why? So that e-packet commerce dies and then everyone has to have a middleman marking it up?