Could an expert mention if this violates the Universal Postal Convention?
Regardless of violation, is there an enforcement body?
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#202Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 mo…
China makes quality things, they just keep it for themselves, and ship their crap to us.
If you are willing to pay (and know where to look), you can get good quality from China just fine.
Most iPhones come from China after all.
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#203Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is a genuine question because I don't know, how do tariffs stop illegal drugs from coming in?
Ok I'll bite. The de minimus rule allows any import valued under $800 to enter the USA duty free. Chinese drop shipping companies and others leverage this rule to ship millions of packages direct to consumer. Many Chinese companies split a large freight shipments into dozens of smaller shipments to avoid paying duty fees. My understanding is, trade war stuff aside, the effect this has on customs is to overwhelm their…
Wouldn't the bulk freight still be largely un-inspected?
Seems like a lot of logistics companies will just offer a lot of LTL where packages will go inside shipping containers and then get reshipped via USPS after getting sorted at the private logistics warehouse near the port.
The containers will take longer to get here via ship, and everything will have to be marked with an invoice for some kind of tariff, but I don't know what else will really change.
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#204I'm unclear on this, but to my understanding if I order of Temu, Aliexpress etc I forfeit any consumer rights that I might have in the country I reside in? E.g. if the cheap stuff burns down my house / takes out my eye [1], there's no one to blame about gross defects / QC oversight? [1] https://www.geekwire.com/2019/lawsuit-ruling-dog-leash-purch...
You’re getting items more or less as described for a few dollars at the most. Heck, when I got my ebike motor they even asked what power wattage sticker they should put on it. More reliable than Amazon, that’s for sure.
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#205The speed at which all of this is happening is astounding Is this all improvised or was there a big list of stuff to do ahead of time? If the latter, does anyone have a copy of that list? Alternatively, is anyone keeping track of what's already been done so far?
Broadly speaking it's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_2025 , but it's been tough for me to find bullet point summaries that don't come across as biased.
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#206Fentanyl is the likely reason behind this order: https://docs.house.gov/meetings/GO/GO24/20230517/115956/HHRG... USPS is the preferred carrier for illicit drug distribution.
Really? I would think these orders are due to some combination of cocaine, Viagra, and Ambien.
I don’t think cocaine comes from China
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>I literally do not know how the electrical and firmware engineers will do their jobs now if we cannot receive packages from China As a software engineer who works closely with electrical and firmware engineers I know what you are saying is completely true. 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 h…
> The question is how did we let it go this far? Because allowing countries to maximize their comparative advantages is great for economic growth. It doesn’t make sense for every nation on earth to have their own copy of every industrial sector. We don’t need all nations to manufacture their own jet engines, oil tankers, t-shirts, and Tylenol. Trade is good. The idea that China is a major security threat is basically…
> The idea that China is a major security threat is basically brand new
That’s what I was taught when I grew up in the 1989ies.
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#208Earlier quoted context omitted.
>I literally do not know how the electrical and firmware engineers will do their jobs now if we cannot receive packages from China As a software engineer who works closely with electrical and firmware engineers I know what you are saying is completely true. 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 h…
> Why has there never been serious Western alternatives to JLCPCB, PCBWay, JLCCNC etc.? Because the West has to actually follow environmental and safety regulations. As opposed to write them down on paper and wipe your ass with it when the West isn't looking. Evidence: I watched a tour video from one of these Chinese PCB houses and some of the workers were wearing surgical masks. Not for COVID mind you, for presiding…
Given how much the US wants to deregulate everything, perhaps it can become the Shenzhen of the West. And not in the good way.
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#209Earlier quoted context omitted.
Mexico/Canada conceding by restating actions they had already agreed to months ago?
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.
I love the “fentanyl czar” position because that’s how american special ministers are named. Give a minister the portfolio, but dumb it down for the orange guy.
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#210Earlier quoted context omitted.
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. ---- [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 Tra…
I nominate Ya’ara Saks