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Post by bb88 »

BikiniPrince wrote: post #161
seanmcdirmid wrote: post #132

Earlier quoted context omitted.

USPS is cheap! Much cheaper to send from China to the USA than the other way around d for some weird reason. But I’m guessing a business who was interested in air mailing parts and prototypes..isn’t interested in value.

It’s cheaper because USPS has been subsidizing the costs. That’s why a lot of small packages were shipped with usps.

Not so much anymore. Aliexpress shipping has become quite a bit more expensive lately (unless it's "Choice"). Somewhere in this thread you can see my theory about their "Choice" shipping service.

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Post by vkou »

maxglute wrote: post #26
abrookewood wrote: post #7

Any idea why?? Presumably the tariff/trade debate?

PRC hit back with tariffs vs Mexico/Canada buying time by conceding on border / drugs.

Canada 'conceded' to increase border security to 10,000 border officers (It currently has 16,000), to spend 200 million on border security (Which it planned to since November), and to hire a 'fentanyl czar'[1].

Trump got paid with his own coin.

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[1] To match the power players of the Trump administration's all-star television celebrity cabinet, I nominate Robb Wells, who did an exceptional job playing Ricky on Trailer Park Boys.

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Post by likeabatterycar »

reaperman wrote: post #72

This 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…

Your company is grossly mismanaged or your work isn't very important if you are shipping hardware China Post. Which would take weeks on a good day.

Had you read the article you would realize this only affects parcels sent through the mail.

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Post by seo-speedwagon »

ggm wrote: post #160

Anyone got a non-intuited, horses-mouth reason why? I suspect (ie, intuit) that its actually an attack on the USPS, not on China. The party of government doesn't like the post office, and this is to teach us not to like the post office either. I guess if they stopped using electric cars, they might like the post office again.

Getting rid of de minimus exemptions made it impossible to assess duty on the volume of packages coming in. So they just won’t accept packages at all.

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Post by Scoundreller »

graeme wrote: post #114
reaperman wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The USA doesn't inspect every package -- almost all current tariffs are on the honor system. They could start by checking every 1 in 10,000 packages and then build up the system until they're spot-checking x in 100. Customs doesn't even know what half the shit is. If I order a quarter-pound of palladium for $4,000 from China, but pay tariffs on 4 ounces of lead (say, $5), do you really think customs can tell the diff…

They got rid of the de minimis exemption. Now every package needs to pay duty. They may not inspect the package but they still have to collect duty on it. I live in Canada where our de minimis exemption is like $20. Generally when a package comes to in it is help at the border where a broker certifies it for customs. Below $20 there's no broker. Now you need brokers etc for every single package. Def more paperwork ev…

Sure when you courier stuff into Canada but when it’s through the postal service, duty & sales tax collection is at the discretion of customs.

Customs used to check everything and tax/duty any parcel over $20 until ~2011 or so.

Not sure if it was because of cutbacks, rationalization (it’s a lot of paperwork to collect a couple bucks even with their, at the time, $6.95 fee), or a part of their reinvention as gun carrying “law enforcement” and consistent tax collection being beneath them.

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Post by maxglute »

davorak wrote: post #91
maxglute wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Conceded _more_, i.e. CAN adding fentanyl czar, whatever that entails, MX adding another 10k troops. Western reporting alleged PRC would offer restoring phase1 trade, but PRC did the opposite and counter tariffed, on energy and agriculture goods, so relative to CAN/MX it's escalating/rejecting or no sign of conceding.

Is there a primary source for sending "additional troops" by Mexico? All I found was the twitter post from Mexico's president: https://x.com/Claudiashein/status/1886434747238514776 And the summary of the speech on on instagram: https://www.instagram.com/firstpost/reel/DFntTIlvOpe/ Neither confirm additional troops rather than just having 10k at the border.

A lot of the English reporting I'm reading said "reinforce" which implies addition. I don't speak spanish but the tweet from Sheinbaum also translates to "reinforce" if translation valid:

>1. Mexico will immediately reinforce the northern border with 10,000 members of the National Guard to prevent drug trafficking from Mexico to the United States, particularly fentanyl.

Re: Suspension of inbound parcels from China and Hong Kong

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Post by Aurornis »

pclmulqdq wrote: post #154
Aurornis wrote: post #141

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> The question is how did we let it go this far? Why has there never been serious Western alternatives to JLCPCB, PCBWay, JLCCNC etc.? Has anyone asked themselves how these Chinese firms are so cheap? It’s not really a secret. They have cheap labor. Very lax environmental standards (big deal for PCB manufacturing). They have a high density of manufacturing and production. One factory can get their materials and machi…

Most US-based PCB manufacturers can do low-volume PCBs rather cheaply for you, but not quite at China prices. AdvancedPCB in the US has their "$33 each" which gets you a very quick turnaround on a pretty-good-tech 2-layer board for $100 total (minimum 3 boards). They do 4-layer PCBs for $66/board and they apparently also do RF materials for $100/board. Sierra Circuits, for example, also has similar prices. This is a…

OSH Park has been doing 4 layer boards for at $10 per square inch for a set of 3 for years. Shipping included. 2 layer for $5/sq in. Much cheaper for anything but the largest boards.

It was actually only recently that China low volume manufacturing beat out OSH Park for very small boards once you factored in shipping.

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