[maxilevi]

temu and shein are cooked

[linotype]

Less cheap junk flowing into the US sounds like a win to me. Maybe clothes should be more expensive and better quality.

[alabastervlog]

I already buy a lot of clothes at least partially made in OECD states. Even with that “partially” doing a lot of work and my avoiding paying extra for “fancy” brand names… I don’t think Americans earning closer to median household income are gonna be happy about paying the kind of prices I pay.

[maxerickson]

At least we can rest assured that they will be more expensive.

[tananaev]

Now I need to pay 10x for a USB cable, a charger etc.

[Eduard]

Also less affordable electronics

[EasyMark]

the thing is that life is about freedom of choice, I didn't buy they cheap junk, I'm fairly normal. I might be the occasional hobby board off alibaba express a couple times a year. Choice is good, not bad.

[LaundroMat]

Maybe the law should impose quality and environmental standards instead of tariffs. But no, that would hurt domestic businesses.

[mytailorisrich]

The market does what people want. Fast fashion is exactly what people want because fashion has always been changing fast and about the "new thing" and people like to be able to buy new stuff all the time.

[nebula8804]

Here you go: enjoy your $120 American jeans: https://originusa.com/collections/jeans (Oh look its on sale 20$ off...yay :/ )

The sale discount is the entire amount I was able to buy my non American jeans for. :/

I guess I can make due with one pair for the week...or wash them each day(oh wait thats gotten more expensive as well).

[alabastervlog]

If the de minimus rule is in-fact suspended on May 2nd, yes. Hasn’t happened yet, so who knows.

Amazon and other US selling platforms are also in trouble, given how much of their income is from drop shippers.

[throw310822]

Well, given how many of their products come from China, right? How many of the products on sale on Amazon are partly or entirely produced in China? Those will have 125% (145? How mush is it today?) import duty on them, unless they're electronics.

[astar1]

too little too late for Forever 21 and it's 350 locations which once employed 43,000 people at it's peak: https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/17/forever-21-files-for-second-...

The temu/shein loophole should been closed ages ago.

[tgsovlerkhgsel]

I'm surprised the Chinese sellers are able to compete for fast fashion. Clothes are the one thing I don't really buy online because getting sizing right is already hard even when you're not dealing with Temu-style "well actually we said there's a +- 25 tolerance in the fine print and this is within tolerance" bullshit.

AliExpress is indispensable for small technical items. If they're available locally at all, shipping included they'd often cost 10-20x as much.

[scarface_74]

They tried closing the loophole a month ago. It was such a burden trying to track and collect tariffs on small shipments they gave up.

[jgalt212]

It is pretty crazy how worker unfriendly US trade policy has been for so long.

[yonran]

> The temu/shein loophole should been closed ages ago.

Or the US should figure out how to get domestic shipping rates to be as cheap as the rates that Chinese shippers pay to ship to the US.