It's like the right is doing everything they can to make the country be pissed off at them. Do they understand we still have the power to vote?
Do you?
Suspension of inbound parcels from China and Hong Kong
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#102Bad for consumers, but seems like a very good thing for AMZN? Amazon won't have to compete against the much cheaper Temu, Aliexpress, Shein(?) etc.
Isn’t half of Amazon just resellers of aliexpress with a markup?
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#103Earlier quoted context omitted.
Cheaper and better. This country is so painfully stupid. Now I have to pay 2x as much for inferior products, if not the same exact stuff imported by an American company. This alone is probably going to cost me about 1000$ to 2000$ per year. We literally don't make much most of this stuff in the US. For example I just ordered a guitar bag, 15$ direct from China. The same exact bag, made in the same exact factory is go…
The other issue is American quality has gone down the tank. 10-15 years ago I’d look for American quality over Chinese, but nowadays I prefer the Chinese manufacturer almost 100% of the time. Not always the case but anecdotally chinas quality has gotten better while American stuff has gotten worse.
Yes. People associate Chinese manufacturing with low quality products, but I feel those people misunderstand systems. It's not Chinese manufacturing that is low quality. It's really the sites like Temu and Shein that create low quality products -- because of their aggressive pricing, they create a cascade of systemic cost pressures on manufacturers, who have to cut corners.
AMZN on the other hand probably provides more headroom and reduces cost pressure on manufacturers. If you know how to shop on Amazon (avoiding 3P sellers, and only getting 4 star and above products), you generally get high quality products.
I've only rarely gotten anything bad from Amazon (from Chinese manufacturers).
I've bought Chinese products like Anker batteries, Thermopro thermocouples/sensors, Jigoo (weird name I know) dust mite vacuum, Tapo camera, Levoit humidifier, Cosori air fryer, and little clever tools like toothpaste tube squeezers and the like.
They've all exceeded expectations.
(I recently bought a Insta360 Flow Pro 2 gimbal, also a Chinese product, and it's amazing).
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#104Earlier quoted context omitted.
It says until further notice. So unlikely to be Lunar New Year since it just ended today.
My Chinese wife says it goes on another week despite what Google calendar says (also it's not called Lunar New Year evidently)
UPs refers to it as “Lunar New Year holidays” on the website I linked, probably because it’s more than just China. You’re right though, I should have been more clear.
Re: Suspension of inbound parcels from China and Hong Kong
#105Any idea why?? Presumably the tariff/trade debate?
The orders against China, Canada and Mexico all halt a trade exemption, known as “de minimis,” which allows exporters to ship packages worth less than $800 into the U.S. duty free, arguing it has helped Chinese e-commerce companies undercut competitors with lower prices.
I don't mind paying an extra 10% on small electronics imports (mostly ESP32 CPUs and related modules for hobby projects). I mean, I do a bit but I rarely order more than $100 of goods at a time, it's just an annoyance rather than a real problem.
I DO mind not getting my orders delivered.
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#106Earlier quoted context omitted.
They are trying to close the de minimis exception which is a, "100-year-old tariff loophole that Trump wants to close." https://www.theverge.com/news/605483/shein-temu-amazon-trump...
Why stop the packages though? Just make the shipper declare a value and let the receiver pay the tariff if they want their package.
The sticking point isn't the value of the tax, it's having to individually generate the paperwork for each shipment.
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#107This is going to utterly fuck so many R&D projects at my company. We actually do large-scale manufacturing of industrial valves in the USA. But a lot of our prototyping involves working with Chinese suppliers and getting small batches of samples / prototypes / revisions sent in packages on airplanes. I literally do not know how the electrical and firmware engineers will do their jobs now if we cannot receive packages…
ill buy em for ya mate, get them posted from Australia, It will just cost you $500 in postage fees.
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#108Earlier quoted context omitted.
At least for China they have an environmental plan far and away better than the US’s “what do the rich want to do?”.
Can you give details of China’s environment plan?. All I hear about are the dozens of coal plants China builds each year. Are they no longer building those plants?
As of August 2024, China has 55 nuclear reactors in operation, 25 under construction, and plans for an additional 36 reactors. In August 2024, China’s State Council approved five nuclear power projects comprising 11 new reactors. Overall, China aims to build 150 new nuclear reactors between 2020 and 2035.
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The new problem is the factories making a lot of this stuff are heavily polluting, and we have little to no control over that because they are abroad. Part of a good climate strategy must involve regulating them somehow.
At least for China they have an environmental plan far and away better than the US’s “what do the rich want to do?”.
Please stop trusting whatever CCP says
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Why do you blame this on Trump supporters? from what I saw, opponents are also rationalizing it.