[JJMcJ]

Friend ordered a widget from China. Needed for a project he was prototyping.

Widget $30

Shipping $60

Shipped via DHL which did have the mechanisms in place to declare contents and pay the tariffs, but not for free.

For people ordering tube socks off of AliBaba, the economics is entirely different and the result is not unexpected.

[DanielHB]

When Alibaba first became big I remember ordering stuff from there and it taking about one month and a half to arrive in Brazil. Turns out they packaged a lot of shipments together into a single cargo container and then distributed them internally within Brazil.

IMO it should go back to been that way. It is ridiculous to ship these small packages by air. I am not in favor of tariffs, but the shipping needs to be included in the bill.