US tariffs

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So they are not even being held by customs over there to await payment for duty, etc?
Thats just nuts.

We've had similar delays on incoming shipments to NZ in the past where the shipping company (DHL) held a consignment until Customs had been paid on it. Lots of faffing around results in order to provide invoices, process payment and get the item cleared. Understandable for medium value items but imagine how much storage area would be required if this demand was made for every last Temu, Amazon, Etsy, etc item. 

This is probably the potential problem our government envisaged which prompted them to put the $1,000 threshold on incoming items before GST was payable. It looks like Trump and co didn't put that much thought into their tariff actions.

The first mistake was thinking Trump and thought has any connection whatsoever.