de minimis

“What a lot of people don't realize is a huge percentage of the world's apparel, of the American apparel brands had set up fulfillment in Mexico and Canada. To do the same thing, only they would do ocean freight from wherever the goods are made, deliver to Mexi…”

“For the de minimis thing in particular, I think Amazon's better off with de minimis not existing. Because de minimis is shipping direct from China to the U.S. Consumer. It skips their fulfillment network. Which is where they put all the capex and huge competit…”

“It went from, see if I can remember my stats on this, it went from a 100,000 packages a day to four million packages a day in the last decade, clearing under de minimis. Now to, 70% of that was China, so now, you know, we've eliminated 70% of that in the last …”

“Well, they're very big global companies first off, so yes. And they're already finding ways, you know, they have to pay duties, but they're just back to being a level playing field, so I think they're, you're gonna see them, one, produce in other countries, an…”

“And the immediate result is a huge surge of needing to put fulfillment, wanting to put fulfillment back in the United States. There's no reason to fulfill from Tijuana. It's pretty far. You're shipping to New York from Tijuana. You're better off having a fulfi…”