New import/tariff rules on eBay

philo98 · #1 09-08-2025, 07:59 AM

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Originally Posted by bk400

This is consistent with my recent experience with a shipment of cards that I tried to send back to the US to a consignment seller that I use regularly. After many such shipments with no issues, my last shipment was first rejected by the local post office -- they just won't ship to the US, period -- I then got DHL to do it (at much higher cost). Package made it to US shores and then was stuck for a couple of weeks. Just got word that there was an import documentation problem. Package on the way back to me. So basically, a big fail. I strongly suspect it has to do with how the items are described in the customs forms. The old descriptions that worked flawlessly before don't seem to work flawlessly anymore.

There are about 90 countries that have stopped shipping to the US due to the de minimis rule. Although my understanding is anything under $100 is exempt. I have a UK passport stuck in shipment which isnt supposed to be held up. Total cluster. Also have tried to do some medical things in the US and gave up on that as well and flew to Toronto. Cant wait to get back to SE Asia. Im finding Cambodia and Thailand to be more efficient. Never would of thought that in a million years.

BillyCoxDodgers3B · #2 09-08-2025, 08:03 AM

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Originally Posted by philo98

Although my understanding is anything under $100 is exempt.

What I heard on Canadian news was that anything under $100 that is declared as a gift is exempt. Purchases are not.

This is going to make more liars out of more people than anything in recent history.

Exhibitman · #3 09-08-2025, 08:29 AM

Dumb policy and dumber implementation. But at least it is now socially acceptable again to say that the people who designed this policy are a bunch of retards. So we Americans have that going for us, which is nice.

BillyCoxDodgers3B · #4 09-08-2025, 08:43 AM

I'm not sure how many Americans are aware, but prior to the de minimis rule being dropped, the disparity between the allowable dollar amounts between Canada and the U.S. was quite staggering.

If a Canadian person/business shipped any purchase with a declared value of under $800 USD, it would reach its American buyer free of duties.

If you flipped that around, any purchase sent by an American to a Canadian recipient would only be free of duty if it had a declared value of a pitifully paltry $20 CAD or less! With the exchange rate, what would that amount to? Three cents?!

My country clearly has some policies it needs to update as well. The strangest part is that I would many times receive a package from America with a declared value of more than that $20 and no duties were requested! I have no explanation for that.

All we can pray for is that once we have a bit of logic implemented on both sides, we can perhaps do something akin to $800 on either end of the equation. I think most of us can understand the need for duty on higher value shipments. Making it impossible for us to ship lesser-valued goods without duties, hassles and fees doled out to some heretofore unheard of third party is needlessly cruel will have a severely negative consequence for small business owners in your country and mine. China and India, et al? OK, I can see some sense behind that thinking. But Canada?

UKCardGuy · #5 09-08-2025, 03:30 PM

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Originally Posted by BillyCoxDodgers3B

I'm not sure how many Americans are aware, but prior to the de minimis rule being dropped, the disparity between the allowable dollar amounts between Canada and the U.S. was quite staggering.

If a Canadian person/business shipped any purchase with a declared value of under $800 USD, it would reach its American buyer free of duties.

If you flipped that around, any purchase sent by an American to a Canadian recipient would only be free of duty if it had a declared value of a pitifully paltry $20 CAD or less! With the exchange rate, what would that amount to? Three cents?!

My country clearly has some policies it needs to update as well. The strangest part is that I would many times receive a package from America with a declared value of more than that $20 and no duties were requested! I have no explanation for that.

All we can pray for is that once we have a bit of logic implemented on both sides, we can perhaps do something akin to $800 on either end of the equation. I think most of us can understand the need for duty on higher value shipments. Making it impossible for us to ship lesser-valued goods without duties, hassles and fees doled out to some heretofore unheard of third party is needlessly cruel will have a severely negative consequence for small business owners in your country and mine. China and India, et al? OK, I can see some sense behind that thinking. But Canada?

This is similar in the UK. For us, duty kicks in at at over �135 but 20% VAT (e.g. Sales Tax) applies to most imports unless it's a gift worth less than �39.

I think everyone will get used to the import duties to the US. The issue at the moment is the speed the change was implemented. I understand that the bill passed by Congress made changes to De Minimis in 2027. Trump used an executive order to bring that forward to Aug 29th this year. That rushed timetable means that the global postal system hasn't been able to implement the change to their systems and processes.

Hopefully things will settle down in the next few months.

philo98 · #6 09-08-2025, 06:13 PM

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Originally Posted by BillyCoxDodgers3B

What I heard on Canadian news was that anything under $100 that is declared as a gift is exempt. Purchases are not.

This is going to make more liars out of more people than anything in recent history.

Exactly. Everyone will be trying to manipulate the system. I reckon people will be taking more trips overseas, buying their clothes and cutting the tags, buying electronics and getting rid of the boxes. We will be like the Mexicans when they would come on weekends to the US and do their shopping and every Sunday night the parking lots of best buy, the malls etc in McAllen Texas would be full of empty boxes. You also get this with the Chinese coming to Singapore and flying back home after a shopping spree. As other members have said some countries have much lower limits but eventually everyone finds a way to get around the system.

Brian · #7 09-08-2025, 08:20 PM

The SCD article was somewhat useful. Here is another:

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/08/new-...consumers.html

I won't be buying an aluminum products. Yikes!

Good thing there is no equivalent special tariff for cardboard--yet.......

jjbond · #8 09-12-2025, 07:08 PM

My Japanese baseball card purchases now have a prepaid 15% tariff added to the shipping bill to the US.

samosa4u · #9 09-13-2025, 12:07 PM

These stupid politicians just keep people poor by making it very difficult to do business. Eff them hard !!

UKCardGuy · #10 11-12-2025, 02:11 PM

In the UK, the Royal Mail has updated their systems and I've started to list some items for sale in the US. I've had a handful of sales over the past month and it's gone smoothly.

When I buy my postage labels, the Royal Mail system assesses any likely postage due (of which there's been none).

My sales were relatively small (less than $30 each and for things (e.g. cards and pins) that originated in the USA - so your mileage may vary.

Wondering if any any other non-US based sellers have had any luck?

Leon · #11 11-15-2025, 10:40 AM

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Originally Posted by samosa4u

These stupid politicians just keep people poor by making it very difficult to do business. Eff them hard !!

I hope we can all agree on that !
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