Blackcrusader
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$19.69 on 32 euro order (not including the shipping cost). It did include some Apeks items, coincidentally.
Taxes are calculated on the total cost including shipping costs not just the goods cost.
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$19.69 on 32 euro order (not including the shipping cost). It did include some Apeks items, coincidentally.
It's not a problem, it's the law since Trump ended the < $800 de minimis exception for goods mailed to individuals.My recent Aliexpress shipments have come through without that nonsense. Sounds like a ScubaGaskets and/or DHL problem to me.
It's great, isn't it? Do you feel great because I feel very great..
It’s the FAFO taxYep, the greatness is so great, it is spilling over to your wallet.
This is exactly what is happening. They are importing products to US warehouses, marking them up by the import duties, then shipping them "within" the USA minus any apparent duty. It's an economy of scale issue for them, they pay the duties by the container-full instead of relying on a 3rd party (DHL in this case) to process them.It's not a problem, it's the law since Trump ended the < $800 de minimis exception for goods mailed to individuals.
Aliexpress is doing their best to work around this by doing bulk shipments to US warehouses for popular products. They then ship from the warehouses when you place an order. It even looks to me like they are taking actual orders for items they don't have here and aggregating them into a single shipment to one of their warehouses to reship. This results in much lower costs because the duties are based on the wholesale rather than retail cost and they don't have to use an expensive express shipper which is otherwise needed to handle the collection of payment of the duties for individual shipments.
instead of working out a way to ease the pain. It demonstrably can be done, as Aliexpress has shown.