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A Shipping Change Might Help Small Businesses if Not for Trump’s Trade Wars

May 11, 2025
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Amid a steady stream of new trade policies in President Trump’s first three months in office, there is one that Andy Musliner, who owns a small toy business in Maryland, can get behind.

That’s the ending of a duty-free loophole for cheap goods from China.

Mr. Trump this month scrapped a provision that had allowed packages imported into the United States from mainland China or Hong Kong to avoid tariffs and other customs requirements if they were valued under $800. The loophole previously faced bipartisan scrutiny from lawmakers and pushback from the Biden administration, in part over concern that it was enabling fentanyl to flow into the United States unchecked.

It allowed the fast-fashion giants Shein and Temu, which rely on Chinese vendors, to gain significant market share in recent years by evading tariffs on low-value products shipped directly to consumers.

Mr. Musliner’s company, InRoad Toys, has been crushed by the rise of these Chinese e-commerce giants, he said. His business, in Crofton, Md., sells road tape for toy cars — which is, as it sounds, tape that looks like a road — all of which is manufactured in bulk in China and shipped in containers to the United States. His business was booming, with double-digit sales growth several years in a row. That came to an end in 2023, when Temu’s popularity in the United States exploded after the company’s high-profile Super Bowl commercial.

Mr. Musliner’s sales suddenly plummeted. American customers started to buy Temu’s knockoffs of a similar roll of road tape for $1.50, far cheaper than his $9 product. Within months, his revenue fell 30 percent.

“No amount of cost cutting is going to get me to that price point,” he said. “I manufacture in China, I import my goods, I sell them on Amazon for a price that takes into account all of those costs.”

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