Author: Hans "The Ramen Rater" Lienesch

We continue delving through the world of instant noodles from Poland with this one. I must admit, as of late that the ominous rumblings of the news are not boding well. Today, the current administration has dumped the deminimus rule. What’s that? Well, it used to be if you ordered something from overseas up to $800, you wouldn’t have to pay any duties or tariffs. It used to be $200, but they’d upped it a while back. Now, it’s $0. So, if a kind hearted person was to send me noodles like these from overseas, there would be a tariff. The idea apparently us to decrease trade deficit and lower illegal drug and fentanyl trafficking. I disagree. First off, usually things like this are to protect local markets from outside competition. If I were limited to instant noodles only made in the United States, I wouldn’t be putting out many reviews, that’s for certain. As far as limiting illegal drug trafficking, I highly doubt those doing such naughty things really are going to care about a tariff. So, who gets the bill? As usual, we do. Already postal services around the world have halted servicing packages bound for our shores. It’s crummy. I dislike it. Think about the small business that has themed foreign items; a British shop that has candies and packaged trinkets; a shop selling anime stuff from Japan. Here comes the bill. Thanks a lot. This and the next two varieties as well as two varieties from Taiwan are the last things that arrived before this went down. I guess we shall see what happens. This was sent by a kind donor from Poland. I’m sure the shipping was expensive enough and now it’s going to get more expensive, if things will come at all. ...see full post