For a month now 77 national parcel services all suspended shipping commercials parcels to the USA because USPS was not able to handle the workload of US customs declarations after Trump cancelled the De Minimis clause and required them for all parcels.
First step
For orders of 800 USD we can ship them as usual with the recipient responsible for performing a customs declaration.
DHL Germany will start accepting these parcels starting tomorrow.
Next steps
For smaller orders we are investigating the technical and organisational requirements.
Smaller orders can only be shipped with „DDP“ INCOTERMS.
This means the price you pay must already include the US import customs, a 2€ fee for DHL and a $0,39 + 2.5% of the customs fee for a US „Qualified Party“.
Since this increases the price that customs are calculated on, …well, you get the point.
We need to find out:
- what the customs rate for each manufacturer country is
- how to be informed in time for (frequent and spontaneous) changes of this customs rate
- what official exchange rates are used
- how to integrate a fee based on destination country, product manufacturer and shopping cart value into our existing shop system
- how to integrate the official exchange rates into our system to calculate these fees
- how to configure DHL to apply different INCOTERMS based on the destination country
So as you can see, this can take a tiny company like us a while to find out, implement, test and finally release live