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We regret but have to temporary suspend the shipments to USA

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639 points CTOSian | 5 comments | 26 Aug 25 17:22 UTC | HN request time: 0.981s | source
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frereubu ◴[26 Aug 25 17:50 UTC] No.45029939[source]▶
All part of this: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/26/postal-servi...

"Suspensions including from Australia and Europe come after Donald Trump removed a rule exempting parcels worth less than US$800 from his tariffs."

(For some reason this isn't showing the full article to me in Firefox with uBlock Origin. There's more info here that works with that setup - https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/aug/25/postal-serv...).

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1. shafoshaf ◴[26 Aug 25 18:09 UTC] No.45030169[source]▶
To be fair, China has been widely abusing the <$800 rule for a number of years. And it really wasn't not helping either economy. Temu routinely employs forced labor and worse to give those super low prices that US companies can't compete with. https://youtu.be/quGoGgbP-aE?si=FL8pgTssEwn5qEvS&t=387
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2. sschueller ◴[26 Aug 25 18:27 UTC] No.45030378[source]▶
Yes, but it's the receiver that is supposed to handle the tariff not the sender.
3. coliveira ◴[26 Aug 25 19:03 UTC] No.45030773[source]▶
Since when forced labor was a problem for Americans? We know for decades that Diamonds are extracted with forced labor, many imported agricultural products like coffee, clothing, etc. use forced labor/minors/slave-like conditions. The US never stoped buying these products because of such issues.
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4. runako ◴[26 Aug 25 20:17 UTC] No.45031802[source]▶
US companies also have access to locally-sourced forced labor:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Prison_Industries

There must be some other reason Temu is able to sell goods at lower prices, especially now that China is not a particularly low-wage country.

5. UncleSlacky ◴[26 Aug 25 20:44 UTC] No.45032092[source]▶
Not to mention the domestic prison-industrial complex:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prison%E2%80%93industrial_comp...