New changes coming into effect for US shipping from the 8th July.
I received this email from Transglobal Express, I have since googled about this. For me it has a huge impact - I have already removed US as an option.
If you sell to the US it is worth having a look to see if it includes what you make.
Do you sell much to the US?
On Etsy yes, but no where near as much as before the last changes.
I had a quick look at the changes, is it worth you setting up the e-filing to comply?
Cardigans and booties have buttons, they would need testing. I would also need compliance paperwork for the buttons. I could still sell items with no buttons and set up the digital stuff. I might look into it but want to do it at my pace, not to a deadline
It would be worth @Folksyadmin putting out some publicity to sellers about this. Though I suspect the usual will happen and that those who donāt know/donāt bother about safety regs wonāt take any notice. Though itāll be interesting to see if the US customs start rejecting items without paperwork.
I think there will be a lot that donāt know as this email was the first I knew about it. So I think there will be a lot of sellers getting caught out. I think as itsthe US they will stick to the rules.
Apparently, they havenāt yet decided on exactly which products will be impacted as yet. Hereās a list of all those commodity codes that may be impacted: chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://www.cpsc.gov/s3fs-public/CPSC-Guidance-and-HTS-List-for-Filing-of-Electronic-Certificates-6B-Cleared.pdf
Iām currently trying to come up with new commodity codes for my cat toys as Iād previously put them in the 95 ātoysā category, which isnāt really correct, but the US wasnāt quite to tricky at the timeā¦
Because I do baby things it looks like I will be better off not shipping there. I dived a bit deeper and I would need individual labels on products with SKU, details of batch and when made. All we can do is hope that the next president changes things to be better for overseas sellers
Yes, what a nightmare the orange one is.
100%. Iām leaving the dark side till next weekend then Iāll remove US shipping only because there is my main income. Iāve removed it from everywhere else.
I have just deleted posting yet again to USA. Soon it will not be worth trying to do any meaningful high end genuine craft due to either poor sales within the U.K or complex loops to jump through to sell outside the u.k. I bet those who thought voting to leave the E.U would be good for craft business are having second thoughts. My best friend voted to leave believing the boats would be stopped. Now she regrets it because it has got even worse and food has increased in price even before Trump decided to have a little war for the world to endure!
I lost a large portion of US sales with the end of the de minimis and the tarrifs. They were about 40% of my sales. Now I get a couple a week, but those couple can be higher value than UK orders.
Trump and Brexit have crushed small businesses
So pleased someone else agrees with me!
The āorange oneā near destroyed my business in his first 4 year term. Back then I was doing a decent trade to the US via Etsy, just over 50% of my sales went there with the rest being the UK, and the occasional to Australia. He did that thing with the postage charges and my insured shipping costs to the US shifted overnight from a maximum of about Ā£20 to an average of about Ā£55. Knitted/crocheted goods can be bulky and heavy. It is what it is. I have four items that are classed as ākids clothingā and I donāt think the Americans know that this site exists anyway, so I am not panicking yet.
I was only selling to UK back then, but once I did start selling to the US it quickly became a large portion of my earnings. Last year I left the day job and at that point things were good, but since February this year things have got a lot slower
It really does feel like one step forward 2 steps back at the moment. The sooner Donald the Dullard is out of office, the better.
I think they really need to make things like this more well known. Iāve only known about it for a couple of weeks having seen it posted on social media and I know someone (not a folksy seller) who only found out this morning when I posted on social media about stopping selling to the US.
Itās OK saying ādo your researchā but how do you know what to look for - if you donāt know what to look for 
I see sellers in my field (particularly on the other side) still selling totally worldwide and Iām pretty sure itās through not knowing rather than flouting the rules.
it isnāt just the US that is a problem.
I constantly see new Folksy sellers offering items to the EU and they quite obviously have no idea of the rules and regs regarding this.
I now only sell to the UKā¦it is such a minefield to sell to anywhere else.
I can remember when there were no regulation plastic " SLOTS "ā¦you weighed an item , added the correct stamps and popped it in the local post box.
I never had any problems with sending to anywhere in the world.
Then the world went mad and got greedy.
It is all quite sad.
Oh dear I wasnāt aware of this either. Off goes the US then. Before long it will only be the big boys that will be able to sell worldwide. Edging all the smaller businesses out of the equation. How sad.
