Well, at a minimum it makes goods from China more expensive and drop shipping from China no longer makes sense for many products. If you aren't getting those products from China, they'll come from somewhere else.
Well, given the number of products we buy from China, this sounds like it's going to make things more expensive for US Citizens.
> If you aren't getting those products from China, they'll come from somewhere else.
...for a higher price, probably, which we will pay.
So no, it won't make things more expensive for most consumers. There's a high likelihood that you've never received anything from China by mail.
I'm just saying that it won't have a large negative impact on consumers or overall trade volumes. If anything I'm defending.
This is extremely tiresome.
And further to the point of impact on trade volumes: a good number of those purchases will instead just happen on amazon or wherever, and will still be of products originating in China: they'll just take a different path into the country and potentially be more expensive.
By your logic, the entire postal system is a "niche" in the overall economy. That doesn't mean you should ignore it.
Stuff shipped from China through the postal system isn't a "niche", it's an enormous volume of mail, and it's the very reason our postal rates are so damn high.
>they'll just take a different path into the country and potentially be more expensive.
How exactly is this a problem??!! The whole problem is that it's unfair trade for postal customers to be subsidizing people buying stuff on AliExpress. If someone wants to import shipping containers full of cheap Chinese stuff and resell it within the US, that's fine: it's way more efficient and ecological than drop-shipping from China. It doesn't work right now because the postal rates are so horrendous for domestic postage, but if we stop subsidizing Chinese shippers, then that should change.
Why are you all so defensive about this?