> and we wind up with pollution, additional landfill, and relentless consumerism that's harmful to the country
But that happens regardless of whether or not you import manufactured goods, doesn't it?
But that happens regardless of whether or not you import manufactured goods, doesn't it?
As others in this thread point out, though, there are other casualties of this change.
Unless they’re sending it all via China Post and US CBP is letting it pass through anyway. Anecdotally, most of their stuff in major cities is arriving by Gig couriers or from US warehouses (ie: not postal imports) = tariffs applied.
Where Temu and big retailers win the game is that they can structure it to exclude last-mile delivery/logistic cost in their tariff calculations, and that’s a lot of the price.