Although U.S. customs regulations suggest that certain items—such as CDs, DVDs, Blu-rays, and books (informational materials)—may be exempt
Well that would be cool, wish we could get some clarity on that.
Because I also saw this in a Reddit forum
Jesse from Diabolik here. Yes this is true. But also up to the whim of whoever is processing your import. I have literally 10k worth of customs duties I have been fighting with ups and FedEx about. The packages were tagged correctly and then the carrier change it to an hs code that is taxable. Also I pay a minimum of $50 in fees to import a box. They have come up with all kinds of new fees to charge importers to make up for the time it costs to process shipments. As a country we process 4 million packages a day from other countries. With the end of the de minimus most of these packages are now going to be scrutinized but there aren’t enough people that know what they are doing to make this happen correctly. This is all a potential nightmare of bullshit. Also I want to reiterate that tariffs are a tax on the American people not any other country.
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