Does US Tariff Effect AliExpress / Chine Online Resellers?
2018-08-04 US customs don’t have the resources to add import duties on the tens of millions of packages sent directly from Chinese online sellers every year.
The importer must pay import duties… but nobody actually does this. Unless you are a corporation.
Many online sellers declare the items as gifts… so it’s not even possible for the customs to know how much duties they should levy on an e-packet from China.
Alibaba is different. It is B2B sales, so the companies import from China must declare duty when they received the products if it was nt taxed by customs.
In theory, all good that are imposed from China are subject to new US Tariffs. But in reality, this tariff may not be collectable. Here are the reason why;
Alibaba is different. It is B2B sales, so the companies import from China must declare duty when they received the products if it was nt taxed by customs.