Sicsemptyran
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So you just reached about a tenth of 1% with that amount, still absolutely nothing.But those packages are not $10 each. Let’s use the average price of $400 at a 10% tax, that is 5.8 billion. That isn’t including the packages that used the loophole to bypass taxes and now have to pay the actual tax.
The majority of money from tariffs will and does come from actual taxed freight. 10% of Apple's iPhone revenue alone would dwarf 10% taxes on every piece of legitimate de minimis shipments.
"Politicians getting their cut" is a fun thing to riff about, and there's certainly money being left on the table because people will risk expensive watches in a "sub $800 de minimis shipment" for example, but at the end of the day it's all dwarfed by actual industrial freight.

