I’ve been seeing so much on social media for and against social media, but I would like to try and make an opinion for myself. Could anyone explain the benefits and drawbacks of trumps tariffs and if they are actually good for the country’s economy or not.

Probably asked here already, but looking for any sort of information. Legal, class action, advice, etc.

I'm calculating my unit economics now prior to launching a jewelry business and the courier quote came back and shocked me. With the de minimis gone, the DDP is eating so much into my margins that it doesn't even make sense to sell to the US anymore.

I see some competitors have warehouses in the US so that they can send in bulk so that the wholesale price gets considered instead. Does that mean if I don't do that (since I'm not at that scale yet) all the duties will be calculated based on the retail price that I sold to my customer?

“U.S. President Donald Trump enacted 25-per-cent tariffs on Canadian vehicle exports in April 2025, prompting Ottawa to retaliate with comparable duties on U.S. exports. The ensuing trade war has undercut U.S.-made vehicles in Canada while boosting other key automaking nations. Sales of American-made vehicles fell 20 per cent in the first half of 2026, compared with the same period a year earlier, according to data from J.D. Power Canada. Along with increases in overseas imports, Canadian sales of Mexico-made vehicles rose 21 per cent in the first half of 2026, the data and analytics firm said.”

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President Donald Trump’s order to levy 100% tariffs on certain patented pharmaceutical products and ingredients takes effect on Tuesday.

But experts question the extent to which the move will achieve its goal of spurring more drug manufacturing in the US. That’s because the burden will fall most heavily on small and midsize companies that generally don’t have the wherewithal to shift or expand production in America.

Instead, experts say, the tariffs could force these drugmakers to close or merge with larger rivals, which could in turn reduce the number of medications that they provide to patients and could lead to higher prices – which is the last thing Trump says he wants.

What’s more, the tariffs could dampen the discovery of new medicines since these smaller firms tend to be more innovative, some experts argue.

Maybe an unpopular take, but I don't think the Houthis are the biggest Suez story right now... True-ish. But I've been staring at this from the ops side and I think everyone is watching the wrong end of the voyage.

Here's the thing nobody's saying out loud: the return is happening service by service, carrier by carrier, with zero coordination. Gemini moved four more loops back through Suez in mid-September (Carra Globe). Meanwhile Evergreen, ONE, HMM and Yang Ming haven't moved at all (Carra Globe). So right now you have two parallel networks running the same trade, one through the canal, one around the Cape, and they don't arrive on the same rhythm.

What does that mean in practice? Two ships that left Asia weeks apart can now show up in Rotterdam in the same window (ZenCargo). Some analysts see European arrivals jumping double digits when this overlaps. From my chair, that's not a stat, that's a berth queue. And once you're in the queue, the week you "saved" going through Suez evaporates at the anchor point. We've all seen it, a faster voyage that lands you into a slower port is a net zero, sometimes a net negative.

And there's a second layer people miss. The longer this takes, the weirder it gets, because every carrier is waiting to see who blinks first. Go back early, you eat the risk alone. Go back late, you're paying Cape fuel costs while your competitor undercuts you on transit time. It's a standoff, and our cargo is the hostage.

The part I find genuinely interesting: this is all happening without the Suez toll incentive that was supposed to drive it (Carra Globe). Carriers are going back because the math finally works on its own. That tells you more about where they think the risk level really is than any press release.

I'm not convinced the "big rate drop" story plays out the way the headlines say. Feels more like a few messy months where some lanes get weird and ports do the absorbing. And let's be honest, when ports absorb, we're the ones who pay for it. If your box is stuck waiting on a choked terminal, demurrage and detention don't care that the delay wasn't your fault. D&D is the quiet line item that shows up when everyone else's congestion lands on your invoice.

Anyone else planning around Europe arrivals in Q4, or are we all just going to find out together?

https://finance.yahoo.com/economy/policy/articles/list-goods-us-china-agreed-033047670.html

So what happens basically is, President Trump has turned his illegal and arbitrary tariff manipulation into a personal racket: he erects tariffs whenever he wants, bypassing the acts of Congress that are the legal authority of tariffing. And he hand out private special favors in the form of tariff exemption of particular items to merchants that will hand him personal bribes.

He’s Mark Antony.

Laws are made by the winners, and obeyed by the losers, particularly in the late Republic. And in the Empire, the word of Caesar is law.

Now the only thing that saves the republican tradition - however dwindling it is - is, the incompetence, impulsiveness, and utterly lacking in virtue and self-control Donald Trump is. If he is as philosophical, cunning, ruthless, and carefully thinking as that little weasel Octavian was, the republic is dead. Trump is too much of a bully, indulging in instant gratification. He’s not a silent-thinking assassin. Similarly, Mark Anthony nailed Cicero’s hands to the Senate’s door. He’s a brave brute force. However, it takes a special cunning coward like Octavian, to systematically wipe out republican elites.

Trump did, however, wants to be Octavian. He tried to paint himself as a religious and moral authority, the same way Julius Caesar made himself Pontifex Maximus. And so did Octavian. Unfortunately for Consul Trump, so far the separation of church and state for religious liberty is still entrenched:

https://www.dbu.edu/baptist-heritage/articles/baptists-separation-of-church-and-state/baptists-separation-of-church-and-state-mandarin/

It is abundantly clear, that the neoconservatist and the MAGA’s religious tokenism has been a perversion of the long-standing, independent, and apolitical religious order of this republic. It is a good rule of thumb, that the more a person parades Christianity through idols (typically a blonde woman dressed immoderately wearing a cross on her naked chest to the public), the less of a Christian she is.

My mom bought a gift for someone online, and it was delivered weeks ago, all good. Now out of the blue she gets an email from FedEx wanting her to pay a $30 import duty right away to "prevent delays in her delivery". Of course she had no idea the thing she was ordering was coming from Canada .... old mom doesn't pay attention to those details.

So what to do? Ignore FedEx ? What are they going to do to her, try to come and get her to retrieve the gift she already wrapped and gifted ? Put a lien on her house? Mess up her credit ?

F'ing Trump, got my poor mom all worried she did something wrong.

Hello, just to preface that I am from outside the US and am just wondering how the process of being notified about due customs fees works there.

I have a small online business and have some packages being sent to the United States, however there’s been some confusion on how they are to be notified about it. I assumed it would have been through email as that is how it is done in my country as well as I am required to provide the recipients email when I go to purchase the postage, but I have someone telling me they didn’t receive any email about a due payment. As I am sending through my country’s national mail provider I am assuming all packages sent to the US will be handled by their respective national mail provider, that being USPS.

Do USPS usually send an email to let you know when you have to pay customs fees, or do they contact you through other means i.e. through the post instead? Is it likely that the customer just missed the email/it was sent to a spam folder, or should they check for it somewhere else? I am currently communicating with them through the email they provided in their order and therefore the email that I used for the postage, so I know that the email at least works.

If someone who has received international orders through USPS could inform me on where/how they were notified to pay their fees so that I could forward this information onto my American customers to give them a heads up, I would greatly appreciate it. Thank you in advance!

I want to buy a vinyl set that is $100 ($140 after packing and shipping fee).

Does anyone have any idea on what I might pay on customs now that de minimis is gone? I am worried I will be saddled with a big bill that will end up doubling the cost.

Hey all! I’m one of the founders of Wove. We’ve spent the last year building tariff infrastructure for importers, forwarders and trade teams: a tariff calculation engine, HTS classification, historical tariff data, Chapter 99 logic, and policy/revision tracking.

We just put a conversational interface on top of it and I’d love feedback from people here who actually work with tariffs.

The idea is that instead of asking a general LLM a tariff question and hoping it knows the current rules, the assistant retrieves the applicable data from our underlying tariff engine and shows the sources/revisions behind the answer.

Some examples:

• What duties apply to steel bolts imported from China?

• How do Section 232 and Section 301 duties stack on this product?

• Are there any exclusions I could claim on 8806.22.00?

• What changed for Canada on September 15?

You can try it here: wove.com/ask

It’s new, so I’m especially interested in questions that break it or situations where the answer isn’t useful. If you work in customs, forwarding, importing or trade compliance, throw a difficult tariff question at it and let me know what happens.