Looks like everything will be hit by the MPF

What is a Merchandise Processing Fee? The Merchandise Processing Fee (MPF) is a user fee that the US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) charges. It is charged in addition to US Customs duty as an ad valorem tax at a rate of .03464%. It is calculated as a percentage of the value of the shipments shown on the invoice, also known as the Customs appraisement. This user fee carries a minimum and maximum amount depending on the entered value of the shipment. MPF is required on informal (goods valued $2,500.00 USD or less) and formal (goods valued over $2,500.00 USD) entries into the US.

Informal MPF Rates Rate: $2.53 USD

Formal MPF Rates Minimum: $32.71 USD Maximum: $634.62 USD (And under Trump's decree, all mail from China must be labeled as formal goods now, so minimum $32.71 fee applies)

https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-02293.pdf

Just to be clear - if I order $5 of LED's from China, I now have to pay at minimum $37.71 instead of $5?

Ordering from Denmark, a medium or larger retailer in China would collect the Danish VAT (25%) and send that to the Danish tax authority. They'd mark the package with a transaction id for this, and it would go through EU customs without any further charges. (Presumably they still scan it for guns etc, and make random checks that these packages are labelled correctly.)

Goods ordered without using this system would be charged the 25% plus a handling fee, which is about $20 here.

However, the EU gave the logistics companies and retailers over a year to get these systems in place. The USA is taking a different approach.

Yes

Wow, that's fucking bullshit. I buy electronics components every year from Shenzen, talking with my supplier now about shipping from Singapore or Japan.

It says until further notice. So unlikely to be Lunar New Year since it just ended today.

CNY goes for two weeks and just started last Tuesday night. The golden week holiday however just ended. Most people take extra time off so things are usually slow until the whole holiday is over.

In HK it's just a few days...

It is still two weeks, just the official days you get off from work are only a week or a few days.

In 2008 when they burned down the CCTV cultural center with fireworks on the last day of CNY, we were already pretty much back to work in Beijing.

My Chinese wife says it goes on another week despite what Google calendar says (also it's not called Lunar New Year evidently)

UPs refers to it as “Lunar New Year holidays” on the website I linked, probably because it’s more than just China. You’re right though, I should have been more clear.

Someone must have watched Knock Off from 1998