Qingdao Sigma Chemical Co., Ltd (International, US, EU, Canada and Australia domestic

It's no secret AAS raw supplies have been mostly cut off, but that doesn't have anything to do with shipping something that was in stock at time of order.
 
He’s probably just regurgitating what is common knowledge already by now. And there was no new big bust we are unaware of or just happened
He has been around for over 20 years. Im def not gonna argue with him lol
Also not saying this happened yday either but in the last month
 
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I am use to everything going right through.. hopefully its just that time if the yearView attachment 308570
My buddy ordered some Tirz from another vendor and it's been sitting at "customs inspection - import" since Friday. Same package carrier.

If package volume is this slow during Christmas, I don't know how the hell the US gov plans to deal with inspecting every de-minimus package when the new "laws" are switched on. Shit is going to pile up quick and entire sectors of the economy are going to experience massive shortages and delays.

I have another buddy that used to work at one of the large postal sorting facilities in a major city and he told me they tried to implement semi-autonomous robots that would pick up and stack packages. Ended up being a total disaster. Billions wasted. The "techs" spent a few months trying to "fix" the robots, but nothing worked. They ended up pulling the robots out of his facility.
 
Not always

Let me rephrase. Order international and demanding a domestic reship will get the response I wrote.

If they choose to reship domestic for whatever reason they can of course, but that's not the norm, and they'll say you aren't entitled to it.
 
My buddy ordered some Tirz from another vendor and it's been sitting at "customs inspection - import" since Friday. Same package carrier.

If package volume is this slow during Christmas, I don't know how the hell the US gov plans to deal with inspecting every de-minimus package when the new "laws" are switched on. Shit is going to pile up quick and entire sectors of the economy are going to experience massive shortages and delays.

I have another buddy that used to work at one of the large postal sorting facilities in a major city and he told me they tried to implement semi-autonomous robots that would pick up and stack packages. Ended up being a total disaster. Billions wasted. The "techs" spent a few months trying to "fix" the robots, but nothing worked. They ended up pulling the robots out of his facility.
Well, the politics gotta tic whilst the agenda agends. Then when many are brought to tears and cry, you get crisis! Only then can the actors act on the actionable...
 
Well, the politics gotta tic whilst the agenda agends. Then when many are brought to tears and cry, you get crisis! Only then can the actors act on the actionable...


All the big "legit" China vendors shipping to the US have voluntarily subjected themselves to the CBPs trials of the upcoming de minimus crackdown.

TLDR, instead of a little bit of vague info submitted to customs before a container with 10,000 small packs arrives, so customs can decide in advance to let the whole thing through, which happens 99% of the time, or detain it to inspect specific "red flagged packs", the new regime will require 50+ pieces of data about each small package, including the shipping company verifying the actual shipper, and the actual recipient.

They believe that extensive data, along with AI analysis will allow them to pick up on patterns and easily narrow down which packs are suspicious, and detain containers to look at those.

It's a strategy to reduce the amount of "inspectable" imports and allow packs from proven, trusted shippers through without wasting resources.

Any time a random inspection finds falsified data, they'll levy huge fines against the shipping company, so that's going to pressure shippers to "know their customer".

If any "trusted" vendor allows contraband to be mixed in with their packs, they'll no longer be trusted, and all their stuff will be flagged for inspection, making that vendor toxic to shipping companies who don't want their containers detained.

Note in the article Shein says they want to help customs identify "legitimate small parcels" like theirs, and distinguish them from illegitimate small parcels, like ours.

 
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They believe that extensive data, along with AI analysis will allow them to pick up on patterns and easily narrow down which packs are suspicious, and detain containers to look at those.

I've worked on several IT projects in the past where AI systems were sandwiched in-between existing large scale processes and it never goes as planned. Usually it takes months to make tweaks to the models or full re-training on updated datasets. In two of the projects, the AI systems were pulled because the disruption to revenue generating systems was starting to impact 3rd party customers down the chain with contractual SLAs. Many fines were levied and paid out.

I suspect a lot of legit packages are going to get flagged and held up in customs. It's going to be a complete shit show for sellers on Ebay, Amazon, etc.
 
I've worked on several IT projects in the past where AI systems were sandwiched in-between existing large scale processes and it never goes as planned. Usually it takes months to make tweaks to the models or full re-training on updated datasets. In two of the projects, the AI systems were pulled because the disruption to revenue generating systems was starting to impact 3rd party customers down the chain with contractual SLAs. Many fines were levied and paid out.

Customs is pretty good at using data to narrow down what and who they'll look closely at. "Random inspections" at the borders or airports are never truly random. They've been hampered by this huge volume of packs from China and the very vague data supplied to them prior to arrival.

They already sent a message earlier this year. They picked 6 containers from 6 logistics companies. They compared the paperwork with the small packs, All 6 were suspended from participating in expedited customs clearance, costing them tens of millions of dollars.

And that's with the old data standards.

The risk to these huge logistics companies if they let some sketchy entity ship stuff in their containers is enormous, and they'll be certain to "self police" so that anything getting into their stream of packs is coming from a known entity who's providing accurate data.

The amount of money potentially lost by being suspended for one day is far greater than the profit made in shipping fees from every package all the UGLs have sent in the last decade. It's nothing to them and they don't want the business of contraband shippers. Every UGL here has gotten caught at some point and had to find a new shipping company.

Then add in the other purpose. Each US resident has a de minimus limit ($800/day right now), that's going to be drastically lowered. Amounts over the limit will be charged customs duty (like the old days). That can't be done without tracking who's getting what, and how much it costs. It's worth tens of billions a year in revenue for the government. They have an effectively unlimited budget to make it work.
 
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