Stacey Cornelius 🇨🇦
@StaceyCornelius@zeroes.ca
You might be seeing posts from artists and craftspeople about no longer shipping to the US due to the "de mimimus" executive order.
Some posts include the background, but if you haven't seen that, here's a quick summary as I understand it:
De mimimus is an exemption that allows small orders to enter the USA duty-free from other countries. It ends August 29.
So not only do tariffs apply – paid by US customers – but there could be an additional fee applied by the USPS of anywhere from 10% to a flat fee of $80 - $200. Also paid by the customer.
No one knows which fees will be applied, and of course no one knows when or if that will change.
So there aren't a lot of options. Someone suggested orders of less than $100 be shipped as gifts, which is still permitted, and I suspect there will be some businesses willing to roll the dice. (FWIW I'm not one of them.)
The executive order can be found here for anyone interested.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/07/suspending-duty-free-de-minimis-treatment-for-all-countries/