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    The End of Cheap Shipping From China

    The White House wants to put an end to low-cost shipping from overseas, a move widely supported among U.S. e-commerce sellers.
    by Alana Semuels Oct 17, 2018 5 minutes
    Source: Athit Perawongmetha / Reuters

    Every day, Americans buy tens of thousands of cheap products from China—jeans, electronics, things made of plastic. Two months ago, I even bought a wedding dress.

    We buy stuff from China mostly because the low cost of living and lax labor regulations allow manufacturers to make products cheaply there. But there’s another reason, too. It’s really cheap to stuff from China to the United States, which means sellers there can charge barely anything to ship an already-cheap item 6,000 miles across an ocean. Want an eyebrow razor? On Wish.com, a site that sells products directly from China, for 95 cents, plus a $2 shipping fee. A similar on Walmart.com, by contrast, costs $2.62 for a three-pack, but there is a shipping fee of $5.99. According to congressional , at current rates, shipping a parcel to Fairfax, Virginia, from North Carolina would cost

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