#417 - Tariffs Just Dropped: Here’s What It Means for Your Amazon Brand

Selling on Amazon with Andy Isom

Andy Isom

Amazon, Business, Amazonfba, Selling, Marketing, Entrepreneurship, Personalbusiness, Productbusiness, Ecommerce, Onlinebusiness

4.9 • 816 Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2025

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

The U.S. just slashed Chinese tariffs from 145% to 30%. China just dropped U.S. tariffs from 125% to 10%.

If you're selling physical products—especially through Amazon or DTC—this is your moment to move fast. Because while everyone else is still refreshing freight quotes, smart brands are locking in container space before the rate hikes begin.

In this episode, I break down:

What the new tariff changes acutally mean for sellers
How this will impact shipping rates and inventory flow
A clip from our coaching Q&A call with Burak Yolga from Forceget logistics
A quick snippet from a private consulting call with Natasha

If you want help locking in shipping rates or making inventory decisions during this window, reach out.

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0:00.0	The trade war with China is already cooling off after just over a month from the date when
0:06.8	the US imposed 145% tariff on goods coming from China.
0:12.2	We're going to talk about that.
0:13.2	A snippet from a consulting call with one of my students, as well as some sound bites from my
0:17.5	coaching Q&A call last week with Burrock Yoga from Forsgett.
0:29.3	What's up guys? Welcome back to Built by Business with Andy Isum. Yesterday, U.S. officials announced the
0:36.5	details of the trade discussions with China over in
0:40.8	Switzerland that happened on Saturday and Sunday. Pick your favorite news station, news outlet,
0:46.7	the Wall Street Journal, NBC. The U.S. has agreed to lower the base level of tariffs on most
0:51.2	Chinese goods to 30% down from 145% while China said it would cut
0:57.0	its levies on U.S. products to 10% down from 125%. The U.S. tariff on many Chinese products
1:05.1	will still be higher than 30%. U.S. duties on steel, aluminum, and autos remain in place, as do some earlier tariffs on certain
1:13.3	Chinese goods imposed during President Trump's first term in office and that of former
1:17.9	President Joe Biden. This is still a massive development in the trade war trade negotiations,
1:24.2	again stemming from those initial moves from early April, just four or five weeks
1:29.8	into this, we've seen almost a complete reversal, of course, on the tariffs, which kind of
1:35.7	makes me reflect and think, could we have just avoided all of that chaos in the first place?
1:41.1	Probably.
1:41.8	But again, I like to think that there's a lot smarter people than me
1:44.2	running Washington. So I'm sure they have more information that we don't have available for the
1:49.9	reasoning behind the way that we went about this tariff negotiation tactic, if we can even call it
1:56.1	that. But now that we have this new trade agreement, we're about to see major, major increases in shipping
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