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Trump Ending Cheap Mail from China
Posted on 10/17/18 at 9:08 am
Posted on 10/17/18 at 9:08 am
NYT Article
Wow, if this happens. Companies in China can currently ship to US customers for less than US companies can ship to US customers. Their goods are less expensive, and they have a huge advantage over us in shipping prices. The only plus that US companies have been able to offer is shipping time and support after the sale.
If consumers now have to pay normal shipping prices from China, you are going to hear a huge crash rolling across the Pacific. I wouldn't want to be holding stock in any company that benefits directly from this cheap shipping.
Wow, if this happens. Companies in China can currently ship to US customers for less than US companies can ship to US customers. Their goods are less expensive, and they have a huge advantage over us in shipping prices. The only plus that US companies have been able to offer is shipping time and support after the sale.
If consumers now have to pay normal shipping prices from China, you are going to hear a huge crash rolling across the Pacific. I wouldn't want to be holding stock in any company that benefits directly from this cheap shipping.
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Posted on 10/17/18 at 9:09 am to Allyn McKeen
Well, time to delete my WISH app.
Posted on 10/17/18 at 9:10 am to Allyn McKeen
There goes all my late night "sipping and clicking" with Jim Beam and that damn Wish website.
Posted on 10/17/18 at 9:16 am to Allyn McKeen
IBFree with why this is bad in 5,4,3,2,1...
Posted on 10/17/18 at 9:31 am to Allyn McKeen
nm
This post was edited on 5/21/20 at 2:30 pm
Posted on 10/17/18 at 10:09 am to Allyn McKeen
This is probably a WAY bigger deal than people want to accept.
Most items shipped from 3rd Party sellers on Amazon fall in the less than 4.4 lbs arena. A large proportion of those quick buy products that are made in China then can easily qualify for the low cost parcel shipping from China, which in turn undercuts the local markets.
Very simply, if it cost more to make the product here, but less to ship it to the destination then the potential for an equilibrium exists. Right now China gets the win on production costs and then their shipping is also subsidized to a point that the only logical lever for a consumer to choose domestic products vs imported Chinese products is either a time constraint or a nationalism viewpoint.
I am not saying only buy American to hurt China, but now you should have a a much closer overall price equilibrium which will help balance out some of these quick buy purchases.
Most items shipped from 3rd Party sellers on Amazon fall in the less than 4.4 lbs arena. A large proportion of those quick buy products that are made in China then can easily qualify for the low cost parcel shipping from China, which in turn undercuts the local markets.
Very simply, if it cost more to make the product here, but less to ship it to the destination then the potential for an equilibrium exists. Right now China gets the win on production costs and then their shipping is also subsidized to a point that the only logical lever for a consumer to choose domestic products vs imported Chinese products is either a time constraint or a nationalism viewpoint.
I am not saying only buy American to hurt China, but now you should have a a much closer overall price equilibrium which will help balance out some of these quick buy purchases.
Posted on 10/17/18 at 10:41 am to Allyn McKeen
This is the kind of thing that no reasonable person should be against. Yet the NPCs will all be irate over this.
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