Americans love Shein, Temu and AliExpress for two reasons: low prices and fast shipping. Trump’s tariffs could change that. His tariff orders reversed a long-standing shipping loophole: the de minimis exemption.

President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariff threats have been touch and go. As it stands currently, the 25 percent tax on goods from Mexico and Canada is on ice for a month, but a 10 percent tariff on Chinese goods is set to take effect on Tuesday, via an executive order of questionable legality.

One positive, perhaps, is that Temu and SHEIN will have a harder time supplying teenagers with disposable garbage from China, some of which is believed to be manufactured by forced labor. Trump’s executive order announced over the weekend imposes tariffs of 25% on goods shipped from Canada and Mexico,

When President Trump pushed ahead with a 10% tariff on all Chinese merchandise, he also closed the century-old de minimis exemption, which allows packages worth under $800 to be shipped into the country duty-free.

Move mimics Donald Trump’s decision to end rule that allows imports valued at less than $800 to enter US duty-free

President Donald Trump has revoked a nearly century-old tax loophole that saved companies from paying tens of billions of dollars in fees on imports. Prices on such orders could now go up an average of 30 percent.