Not direct-order. There’s a minimum fee. Unless you’re ordering bulk, you’ll be paying a lot more than $3-$5 per board in taxes.

The cheapest alternative now will be to go through a middleman who adds some markup but can pay “merely” the 145% tariff rate because they’re buying a ton of them at a time. 400% total markup on the direct-priced $3 board beats $100 (and soon $200) per parcel ordering just a couple at a time. Though, these businesses may not be viable at the higher prices, and supply might just dry up.

(In fact, the cheapest alternative will probably be “Vietnamese” boards that are lying about where they were manufactured…)

Unless you get hit with the flat fee instead.

> Packages sent to the US from mainland China and Hong Kong with a value of up to $800 now face a 120% tax rate or are subject to a flat fee. The fee started at $100 and is due to rise to $200 at the beginning of June.

Yeah that part was unclear. So maybe the $100 flat fee is the minimum.

In that case us importers will pop up to import them in bulk and your uc goes up to $8.

Maybe it makes sense to order something from Parallax or TI in that case.

Yes and then wait half a year for CBP to hire a few thousand more people to handle the workload.

Lol assuming CBP doesn't spend that money on migrant hunting squads and torture camps.