Comment by Animats
8 days ago
Did the "de minimus" exemption on small packages from China go away, and are all those now going to have to go through customs clearance?
8 days ago
Did the "de minimus" exemption on small packages from China go away, and are all those now going to have to go through customs clearance?
What will happen is the same as when my govt. added GST (sales tax) on all imports with no de minimus exception [1], the overseas retailers will agree to add it on at checkout so their packages will sail through customs.
From a practical perspective I can’t see any other way.
Closing the “GST loophole” as they called it didn’t help New Zealand retailers, but did increase tax revenue and raise prices for consumers.
[1] There is an exception if the retailer does less than a certain dollar figure of exports in total to New Zealand.