{"id":26004,"date":"2025-04-15T19:02:45","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T19:02:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=26004"},"modified":"2025-04-15T19:24:55","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T19:24:55","slug":"how-trump-might-unwittingly-cut-emissions-from-online-shopping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=26004","title":{"rendered":"How Trump Might Unwittingly Cut Emissions From Online Shopping"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fast fashion retailers rely heavily on shipping by air. The president\u2019s tariffs could change that.<\/p>\n

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Shein packages ready to be shipped from a factory in Guangzhou, China, in February.<\/span>Gilles Sabri\u00e9 for The New York Times<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Fast-fashion giants like Shein and Temu have been doing booming business in the United States in recent years, in part because of a tariff exemption that\u2019s helped to keep prices low on packages shipped from China.<\/p>\n

Now, President Trump has ordered the loophole closed as part of new tariffs, starting with packages from China and Hong Kong. It could have the effect, probably unintended, of putting a dent in global airfreight emissions linked to the fashion industry.<\/p>\n

Last year, 1.36 billion packages entered the United States through that loophole, which is known as the de minimis exemption and allows goods worth less than $800 to enter the country without tariffs. The largest source of shipments under the exemption<\/a> was China, and most of those packages crossed the ocean by plane, according to data from Customs and Border Protection.<\/p>\n

And that means a lot of planet-warming emissions: Flying a package across the sea is 68 times more<\/a> carbon-intensive than shipping it by ocean freight, according to the Climate Action Accelerator, a nonprofit group based in Switzerland.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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