Possible Decision On Tariffs Friday | Selling

codacloset · 2026-01-07T14:15:21.684000Z

The Supreme Court will be making decisions on a number of cases on Friday at 10 AM ET. One of the cases that could be deciced is the tariff case. I've done some reading and from what I gather it will be very difficult for The Orange Man to recreate tariffs to override the de minimis agan if the tariffs are overturned. We could very well see sweeping tariffs levied against numerous countries and against different commodities, but it would be difficult to override the de minimis again unless some other emergency situation was fabricated (which it could be). How much does everyone estimate the tariffs have hurt their sales? I would say my overall sales are down about 60-75%, but I started transitioning into selling items of higher value late last spring before the de minimis ended. I was previously selling a higher volume of lower price items (video games and inexpensive clothing), so it's difficult for me to compare because of how drastically I've changed what I'm selling. Part of the thing that's been difficult is the idea of paying tariffs for American buyers. Even if I have found DDP solutions so buyers won't be charged anything additional upon delivery, it's hard to explain to someone that they won't pay duties when eBay are telling them they will. My sales for video games to the US basically died back in April last year when the Chinese de minimis ended. It didn't even make sense because all of the discs for North American games I sell are manufactured in the US or Mexico and all of the discs for the Japanese games are made in Japan. It's been an awful combination of American buyers' lack of general understanding of custom rules and regulations and eBay's vague/somewhat innacurate warning messages that are shown to buyers at checkout that were written by someone in San Jose who has no understanding about the rules.

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