**Suspending tariffs for Shipments to the USA**

TL:DR:

Until the announced new US tariffs are in place,US customers can order about 18% cheaper again.We suggest to not wait.

What happened

The US Customs and Border Protection has announces that it is ending the collection of the Orange Man's "International Emergency Economic Powers Act Duties".As a result, we have paused collectin

https://blog.yiffytoys.de/2026/02/suspending-tariffs-for-shipments-to-the-usa.html
#LegalTopics

At his talk “An Introduction to Law and #FreeSoftware”, our colleague Gabriel Ku Wei Lin highlighted a case by @civio: a Spanish Supreme Court ruling that provides a legal precedent that underlines the importance of transparency in source code and algorithms, and support for the Freedom to Study.

Want to know more? We’ll be publishing a #LegalCorner article on this case next week! Stay tuned!

#FOSDEM #Legaltopics

**US Shipping resuming**

For a month now 77 national parcel services all suspended shipping commercials parcels to the USA because USPS was not able to handle the workload of US customs declarations after Trump cancelled the De Minimis clause and required them for all parcels.

First step

For orders of 800 USD we can ship them as usual with the recipient responsible for performing a customs declaration

https://blog.yiffytoys.de/2025/09/us-shipping-resuming.html
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**DHL temporarily not shipping to US after 25th.**

We got a notice from DHL that they will no longer ship any good to the US temporarily after the 25th because USPS no longer accepts parcels because they in turn can't handle the workload of all the customs declarations after US president Trump has signed the Executive Order „Suspending Duty-Free De Minimis Treatment For All Countri

https://blog.yiffytoys.de/2025/08/dhl-temporarily-not-shipping-to-us-after-25th.html
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**New tariff chaos**

[This blog posting will be updated to reflect the latest changes.]

As that Orange Man didn't understand what VAT is (nor how tariffs work) and thought of it as a tariff he had to counteract,a 20% tariff on importing anything from the EU (that's us) to the US will come into effect next Thursday.Unless that Orange Man decides to postpone it at the last minute like he did few times before,wreak

https://blog.yiffytoys.de/2025/04/new-tariff-chaos.html
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**Strike in Italy**

We just got a notification from DHL that due to a strike in Italy,parcels to such customers are delayed but up to 3 days.

https://blog.yiffytoys.de/2024/12/strike-in-italy.html
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**Getting Phishing with our LUCID registration ID**

We just got some very well made phishing mails mentioning our LUCID registration ID.One of them addressed to our email used for Amazon.Of cause all this information can be scraped from public sources.The only striking things are,that the sender was not actually the "Stiftung Zentrale Stelle Verpackungsregister" but some small trading

https://blog.yiffytoys.de/2024/10/getting-phishing-with-our-lucid-registration-id.html
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**GPSR extension written for shop software**

General Product Safety Regulation (GPSR) will take effect in two month.It mandates that we display a lot of information about product safety&care and the manufacturer+(EU) importer in the same place as the product details.Sadly our shop software doesn't allow for and kind of manufacturer details.To prepare for it, we ha

https://blog.yiffytoys.de/2024/10/gpsr-extension-written-for-shop-software.html
#HarderBetterFasterStronger #LegalTopics

**GPSR – upgraded packaging**

In preparation of the upcoming GPSR regulation in December,we have changed the our product packaging printing software.

changes made

For imported products the packaging will now also show the full address and email of the manufacturer (in addition to our own company address).For EU products the barcode label will now also show the full address of the man

https://blog.yiffytoys.de/2024/09/gpsr-upgraded-packaging.html
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**No shipping to HAITI at the moment**

DHL is not longer shipping to HAITI because public order has collapsed.So in turn we can't either.

DHL announcement:

Sehr geehrte Kund:innen und Geschäftspartner:innen,in Haiti ist die öffentliche Ordnung weitgehend zusammengebrochen und angesichts der eskalierenden Gewalt wurde der Ausnahmezustand ausgerufen. Daher möchten wir Sie darüber informier

https://blog.yiffytoys.de/2024/03/no-shipping-to-haiti-at-the-moment.html
#LegalTopics #DHL