Remember when President Trump established the “External Revenue Service?” … It’s all connected and sequential.
Almost everyone will miss, in part because outcomes appear in a sequence that few care to follow, but buried in the Trump tariff Executive Order {SEE HERE} you will discover something.
So, Canada and Mexico get 25% tariffs, but China only 10%. Why?
The secret is in that subsection “(h)” when it talks about de minimis treatment.
Essentially, what President Trump is doing is levying a much more massive import tax, and possible confiscation impact on the core source of fentanyl (and other illegal) substances.
Approximately a billion packages are estimated to enter the USA under the cover of the de minimis exemption. This is where the enforcement mechanism of the “External Revenue Service” combines with the tariff approach and the “state of emergency.”
President Trump imposed the tariffs under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, a nearly 50-year law that gives the president sweeping power to impose sanctions after declaring an emergency.
Now the billion packages, mostly from China, Mexico and Canada are going to be subjected to review and interception.
The de minimis loophole comes from back in the 1930s. The idea back then was, say you went on a vacation to Paris, you shouldn’t have to file customs paperwork or pay taxes if you decided to ship some little Eiffel Tower statues to your friends back home.
Congress in 2015 then raised the de minimis threshold from $200 to $800. However, the e-commerce world exploded, and Chinese companies began using the de minimis loophole to ship cheap goods (ex. Temu and Shein) into the USA direct to consumers without paying any customs duty.
It was reported last year that the U.S. was on track to receive a billion packages through the de minimis loophole that aren’t taxed and don’t have customs slips saying what they are. Making matters worse, illegal items are slipping through the cracks, including, knockoffs, unsafe items and even chemicals used to make fentanyl. The worst abuser that exploits this de minimis loophole is, by far, China.
President Trump can require a customs and duty declaration stating what is in every package and subsequently collect tariffs and duties.
Put it all together and President Trump is executing an Emergency Act executive order, plus the imposition of a tariff review, and simultaneous interception of de minimis packages previously unchecked as the enforcement mechanism.
All executed by the External Revenue Service.
President Trump has got them surrounded, and the scope of it has the media so overwhelmed they cannot quite put it together.
Almost too much winning….
Captain Convey Comment
“The point is companies maximize profit under the rules set by government. The hollowed out Rust Belt in the Midwest and the Empty Texile Buildings in the South were created by our government against we the people.
DEI throws merit out the window and causes huge problems for corporations and we the people. Created by government and all corporations got on board.
President Trump creates an America First atmosphere and the corporations completly change course.
Ultra MAGA”
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A new term.
Artificial Stupidity is a Gold Standard Term for woke/dei and people who have the disease.
It also can be applied to AI chat bots that get stumped and just can’t seem to come up with an answer.
Or when you make a phone call an an AI program has replaced a human and is trying to “help” you but is only taking much more time and making you frustrated.
Or anything else that companies use to “make your life easier” through AI stuff that doesn’t work.