A simmering cost-of-living crisis pushed the Trump administration to announce rollbacks in November on a number of food-related tariffs.
For the first time since Donald Trump rolled out his sweeping global tariff program in April, month-over-month customs receipts declined in November.
Last month, the U.S. government collected $30.75 billion in import duties. This was down from $31.35 billion collected in October.
Over the last few months, the monthly increase in tariff money collected by customs has slowed, but November’s total was the first month that collections were lower than the previous month.
Been looking for an appropriate place to post this.
DHL contacted me about unpaid duties. At first I thought it was a scam given that I’ve never had to before and I didn’t recall any recent foreign purchases. Did some digging and the fees are legit. Well… somewhat legit. I should’ve been charged ~33% of the purchase price (flat fees included) for my item but the duties were actually more than the item itself! I asked the seller if they could help correct the “miscalculation” but chances are high I’ll eat the shipping costs (to send it back) and never see the item.
So theft and extortion. I remember when those were crimes.