We are stopping shipments to the US

The last I read, de minimis still applied. I didn't know until now that was done with.

As an avid collector of vinyl records: FUCK! I've got no problem sending $50 to a European artist who's selling a limited run of records out of their living room. Hell, if it's an artist I really like, I'll spend $70. I'm not about to spend $70 and the artist get half of it.

Spending ludicrous amounts of cash of 12-inch pieces of plastic is totally fine with me, but I want my money going to the artist who's making the music I love, not a government I voted against.

It ended 8/29
No more Lego pick a brick! Way more money for temu bullshit, if they even still ship here! Etc
This is where American consumerism will really start to feel the squeeze. The prices of all that stuff had gone up because of tariffs related to manufacturing costs but now direct tariffs on shipments will either block it or cost consumers.
- The only good thing about this is hopefully slowing down the disposal clothing fad from Temu.
  If this had to happen, I really wish there was a reasonable DM, even $50, and then a requirement to not split shipments to stop business import abuse.
I’ll spend $70. I’m not about to spend $70 and the artist get half of it.
You're spending too much time listening to Trump/media apologists for Trump. The America hating foreigners don't pay the tariffs. If the artist you are giving $70 to, is shipping from a country with 25% tariffs, then US Customs, if foreign Post office did not collect US tariffs (all of them are refusing), or disagrees with the value/amount collected, then they will add anywhere between 25% of the missing value or $200 (tariffs on $800 value as penalty for not complying with US law), and YOU NEED TO PAY to collect the package.
Artist got the $70. They won't ship if they have to pay the tariffs. You pay the tariffs if they don't.
- If the person in the US is only willing to pay 70, then the artist will get less than 70.
  Sure, the American pays the tariff. That's not the point. The point is that this person wants to spend X total and wants most of that X to end up with the artist. And that doesn't happen if they have to spend half of X to pay for the tariff.
  The point of saying "the American pays the tariff" isn't to say that the seller makes the same amount. It's to emphasize that the seller won't absorb that cost, which is the lie Trump is selling.
The last I read, de minimis still applied. I didn't know until now that was done with.
You can blame companies like Temu for putting a spotlight on de minimis. Their entire business model was built around exploiting de minimis to never pay any taxes. Rather than importing a single shipping container valued above the de minimis amount, they list it as like 10000 individual items, each under the de minimis limit.
It was overwhelming port authorities who didn’t have the manpower to handle that much paperwork for what should have been listed as a single shipment. The tariffs originally didn’t touch de minimis, but then the feds noticed that companies were essentially evading tariffs by only shipping low value items.

Large corpos might set up fulfilment centers in USA and do bulk import. Small companies will just stop export to USA. Setting up manufacturing in USA is unlikely with all the volatility.

Yeah, that volatility came up in discussions at work. Since it's unpredictable, attempts to plan around it after just futile.

Reduce, reuse, recycle.

Congrats on helping average Americans to finally reduce.

Lol, their quality of life as they spend more on literally everything.
- That's part of why we've been so resistant to reducing our "needs". That and corporate greed.

But they're a tech company, they don't transport anything?

If they sell anything they'll be subject to tariff bureaucracy.

Interesting a Switzerland based company using New Zealands national bird, the Kiwi, as their logo. Plagiarism?