Chelsey Dulaney

You would maybe think that this stuff would all be going to London or Frankfurt or Paris.

but it's actually not.

A lot of it is going to small airports in the UK.

One of them is East Midlands Airport, which is kind of in this rural area in the middle of England.

We went there and there were sheep nearby and there were tractors on the road.

So that's been a really big one.

And then the other really big ones are Hungary, this former military airbase called Liege in Belgium.

So it's, yeah, it's coming into unexpected places and then it's very quickly being distributed to

Yeah.

So this stuff is shipped directly to people like this is drop shipping.

Some of it will just immediately get shipped from a factory in China to the person at the end.

Some of it will go into a big warehouse called overseas family warehouses.

And these are basically, in most cases, Chinese immigrants who are storing some of these packages in their houses.

We spoke to one person who built a shed in their backyard in London.

They store these packages from the Chinese exporters.

And then they package them up themselves when the order comes in, and then they ship them off.

So it's been a huge business.

One of these people we talked to was making around 5,000 pounds in a good month.

So yeah, there's a ton of people piling into this industry now.

Yeah, de minimis is obviously controversial.