Kayla Steinberg
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This is affecting pretty much everything that you're ordering from abroad.
Rugs, computers, vitamins, all those things and so much more that you're trying to order from abroad could get hit with these tariffs and fees.
When the de minimis exemption ended in August, it put companies like UPS in a really hard spot where now they're having to do customs clearance on so many more packages, whether it's a water bottle or a rug or a computer.
Now, all of a sudden, it has to go through all this additional processing and determination of different fees.
She ordered $431 worth of skincare at the end of August.
But when the UPS delivery driver showed up with her package in September, she was told that it was going to be $657 worth of fees.
If the item only can come from some other country, make sure you're reading the fine print on the item page and at checkout, look out for a label called delivery duty paid or DDP.
That typically means that the shipping costs have been included in the final price of the item and you won't wind up having to pay them later.