Your late-night shopping habit just got more expensive. Last midnight, the U.S. officially closed the beloved “de minimis” loophole—the sweet exemption that lets us buy anything from China for under $800 without paying import tariffs.
Thanks to President Trump’s tariff shake-up, that $12 sweater from Shein? It’s now facing tariffs as high as 145%. Temu and Shein already raised prices, some even doubled. Small e-commerce businesses are scrambling to survive, frantically reorganizing their supply chains to avoid this financial crisis. Let’s say goodbye to cheap, guilt-free thrills from overseas.
