On this week's episode of The Weekly Buzz, there's a new worldwide de minimis rule.

Ecommerce sellers might be scrutinized more closely by the IRS, and Amazon might start delivering

ads through conversations with Alexa. This and more on this week's episode of The Weekly Buzz.

How cool is that? Pretty cool, I think.

Hello, everybody, and welcome to another episode of this series sellers podcast by helium 10 this is the show that is our helium 10 weekly buzz

where we give you a rundown of all the goings on in the amazon ticot shop and e-commerce

world we let you know what new features that Helium 10 has, as well as give you

a training tip of the week that will give you serious strategies for serious sellers of any level

in the e-commerce world. Today's host is actually going to be Kerry Miller. So Carrie, take it away

and let us know what's buzzing. Okay, so our first article is all about the worldwide de minimis. Now, we all know that

President Trump closed the de minimis loophole with China because there were a lot of shipments coming in

through China and there were no taxes being paid. But now this is actually going to be worldwide.

So I want to share this article. And so it's basically a CNN article that says that Sheen and Timu's prices will get hit even harder by the de minimis rules.

President Donald Trump last week suspended a global trade loophole allowing smaller parcels into America duty free.

This closes a backdoor into the United States for Chinese mega-shippers like Sheen and

Timu who could potentially pass the cost of those duties onto consumers. So instead of them paying,

though maybe we'll all be getting tax bills. Trump eliminated the so-called de minimis exemption,

which had admitted duty-free shipments of goods worth $800 or less into the United States.

Giant e-commerce sites used the loophole when shipping hundreds of millions of packages to U.S.

consumers.

Okay.

So all this article kind of continues to say there's a lot of kind of illegal things that have

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