@tarotfindsandmore wrote:Please provide a link to the section that says it's mandatory.
This...
https://www.help.cbp.gov/s/article/Article-1919?language=en_US
says nothing about mandatory DDP.
Furthermore, you still haven't clarified why this matters, as the OP has made no mention of which carrier he is using. "Economy shipping" may be provided by any carrier.
That is not the Executive Order 14324. The official Executive Order was published in the Federal Register, as is required by USA law. I have attached a screenshot from the Federal Register below.
However, don't expect the wording to be clear, it is not. I have highlighted the part that requires the duties to be filed through the Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) for non-postal shipments (commercial carriers) being imported into the USA.
Some commercial carriers will still accept shipments DDU, but they are actually paying the duties in advance as a courtesy to the senders of the packages. If the recipients refuse to pay the duty and other fees on delivery, then the carriers will bill the senders for it after the fact.
There are several companies that have been approved to collect duties and customs forms online, and submit them to USCBP, before the packages arrive to USCBP. These companies require the duties to be paid in advance.
Whether it is through ACE or another system, the same requirement is being placed on both postal and non-postal shipments. All shipments into the USA are now required to be DDP, because that is what the online systems or companies approved by the USA to file and submit duties to USCBP require the carriers (postal and non-postal carriers) to do.
Here is a Factsheet from USCBP, which also says that the non-postal carriers are required to "file" ... " all applicable duties, taxes, and fees" using the ACE system. Both postal and non-postal carriers are required to do this through the online companies/systems, which require payment in advance.
To get a clear explanation which mentions DDP, here are a couple of announcements/press releases from the Universal Postal Union about the new requirements, explaining the new DDP shipping service they have developed so that global postal services can "collect customs duties from senders in advance". This was necessary to allow postal shipments to the USA to be resumed.
Thanks for the link, still not seeing anything that says DDP is mandatory in the document sections you've uploaded here, but I suppose I'm just not that bright. I'm also not seeing anything in any of that that states it is Executive Order 14324. From what I'm reading the snipped bits you've shared outline the both the actual and potential fall out from the order, and how carriers/countries will be able to deal with it.
I was, however, able to find the full document you clipped some of your inclusions from, which I'm providing here so others can read it in full if they so choose. You're right the language is quite ambiguous, but the words "mandatory", "DDP", "delivery duty paid" do not appear anywhere in the document.
Coming back to the actual topic at hand, I stand by my original position. At this point in time, the language on the ebay listings from international sellers is pretty clear. If it's "a lie", I will accept the lie until the language is corrected.
Furthermore, even if your interpretation of that document is correct, we still don't know how the OP is shipping (as in carrier), and advice telling him to tack on a flat rate to his shipments to the US will not remedy his problem. Many of his items are listed for amounts well in excess of 100.00 so he will need to go in and manually adjust each one of his listings by 15% in order to offset the DDP you are insisting he will be forced to use if he doesn't wish to just use the bulk edit tool to increase all of them by 15%, regardless of where he is shipping.
I do appreciate you taking the time to try elucidate why you think it is mandatory for other nations to ship "delivery duty paid" and posting the actual document sections that led you to this conclusion, so thanks again.
ETA: I am fully aware that this section...
does say that "carriers or other qualified parties will be required to collect duties", but it doesn't specify who the "qualified parties" are. I see no reason why ebay itself may not be the qualified party, which will ultimately result in the very scenario I described in my original post in this thread.
