Us customs duty alert updated 1103

[Updated Nov 3] U.S. Customs Duty & Tariff Changes

Notice

07.31.2025

๐Ÿšจ URGENT NOTICE

US Customs Policy Major Update

Effective August 29, 2025 | 2025๋…„ 8์›” 29์ผ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์‹œํ–‰

๐Ÿ“ข Key Changes

โŒ Before

Under $800

Duty FREE! ๐ŸŽ‰

โœ… Now (from Aug 29)

All Amounts

Duties Apply! ๐Ÿ’ธ

โš ๏ธ Important: Shipments marked as gifts under $100 (EMS) or FedEx may qualify, but customs rarely accept them.

๐Ÿšš EMS & Sea Parcel (Korea Post) โ€” Resumed + Duty Prepaid

  • EMS and Sea Parcel to the USA have resumed (as of October 23, 2025, per Korea Post notice).
  • Duty prepayment required: You must prepay duties and clearance fees in Korea before dispatch.
  • Customs amount: Determined based on the declared value you enter during shipping payment.
  • Gift option: Available if declared value is under $100 at the time of shipping payment.

๐Ÿ“ฆ FedEx (Express)

โ€ข FedEx account number required (open account)
โ€ข FedEx usually charges duty after delivery (post-billing).
โ€ข About 50% of shipments are delivered first, and a duty bill follows later.
โ€ข Around 10% undergo random inspections causing 10+ day customs delays.
โ€ข Final duty amount is unpredictable. Prepay/postpay options may be added later.

๐Ÿ’ฐ Customs & Clearance Guide โ€” EMS / Express

You can decide and enter your declared value during shipping payment.

๐Ÿ“ฎ EMS (Korea Post)

Total: 15% of declared value (duty) + 10% of duty as clearance fee (โ‰ˆ 1.5% of declared value) + US $1.04 (VAT excluded).
โ€ข Roughly 17โ€“19% of declared value in total.
โ€ข Duty-free for gift declarations under US $100; Korea Post clearance fee US $1.04 (VAT excluded).
โ€ข The total shipping payment (when requesting shipment) will include duties based on the declared value and gift selection.
โ€ข Since the base duty is prepaid, no duty will be charged at delivery.
โ€ข However, CBP may re-evaluate declared value, request additional inspections (e.g. FDA), or deny gift status, resulting in extra charges.

๐Ÿšš Express (FedEx/DHL/UPS)

Total: Declared Value ร— 15% + category base duty (if applicable) + Brokerage fee ($10โ€“$30)

โ€ข Duties are calculated primarily from the declared value, but CBP may reassess using HS code, brand, or market price.
โ€ข Brokerage fees are unrelated to declared value and typically range between $10โ€“$30.
โ€ข Express carriers do not officially support gift shipments โ€” you may mark as โ€œgift,โ€ but customs rarely accept it.

๐ŸŽ Gift Exemption Rules

$100 Gift Exemption Requirements:
  • A genuine gift sent from an individual to another individual
  • No commercial transaction or payment record
  • Limit: $100 per recipient per day
  • EMS supports gift marking, but CBP may not accept the exemption.

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๊ด€์„ธ FREE! ๐ŸŽ‰

โœ… ํ˜„์žฌ (8/29~)

๋ชจ๋“  ๊ธˆ์•ก

๊ด€์„ธ ๋ถ€๊ณผ! ๐Ÿ’ธ

โš ๏ธ ์ค‘์š”: $100 ์ดํ•˜ ์„ ๋ฌผํ‘œ๊ธฐ ๋ฐœ์†ก๊ฐ€๋Šฅ(EMS), FedEX๋„ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์„ธ๊ด€์—์„œ ์ธ์ •์ด ์ž˜ ๋˜์ง€ ์•Š์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๐Ÿšš EMSยท์„ ๋ฐ•์†Œํฌ(์šฐ์ฒด๊ตญ) โ€” ์žฌ๊ฐœ + ๊ด€์„ธ์„ ๋‚ฉ

  • ๋ฏธ๊ตญํ–‰ EMS ๋ฐ ์„ ๋ฐ•์†Œํฌ๊ฐ€ ์žฌ๊ฐœ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค(2025๋…„ 10์›” 23์ผ ์šฐ์ฒด๊ตญ ๊ณต์ง€ ๊ธฐ์ค€)
  • ๊ด€์„ธ์„ ๋‚ฉ ํ•„์ˆ˜: ํ•œ๊ตญ์—์„œ ๋ฐœ์†ก๋˜๊ธฐ ์ „ ๊ด€์„ธยทํ†ต๊ด€์ˆ˜์ˆ˜๋ฃŒ๋ฅผ ์„ ๋‚ฉํ•ด์•ผ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
  • ๊ด€์„ธ๊ธˆ์•ก: ๋ฐฐ์†ก๋น„๊ฒฐ์ œ์‹œ ์ž…๋ ฅํ•˜์‹œ๋Š” ์„ธ๊ด€์‹ ๊ณ ๊ธˆ์•ก์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ ๊ฒฐ์ •๋˜์–ด ์ถ”๊ฐ€๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
  • ์„ ๋ฌผํ‘œ๊ธฐ: ์„ธ๊ด€์‹ ๊ณ ๊ธˆ์•ก์ด 100๋ถˆ ์ดํ•˜์ผ๋•Œ ์„ ํƒํ•˜์‹ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๐Ÿ“ฆ FedEx(ํŠน์†ก)

โ€ข FedEx ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋ฒˆํ˜ธ ํ•„์ˆ˜ (๊ฐ€์ž… ๋ฐ”๋กœ๊ฐ€๊ธฐ)
โ€ข FedEx๋Š” ๊ด€์„ธํ›„๋‚ฉ – ์ˆ˜๋ น์‹œ ํ˜น์€ ์ถ”ํ›„์ฒญ๊ตฌ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
โ€ข FedEx๋Š” ๋ฐฐ๋‹ฌ ์™„๋ฃŒ ํ›„ ๊ด€์„ธ๋ฅผ ์ฒญ๊ตฌํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒฝ์šฐ๊ฐ€ ๋งŽ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
โ€ข ํ˜„์žฌ ์•ฝ 50%๋Š” ์ผ๋‹จ ๋ฐฐ์†ก๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์ง„ํ–‰ํ•˜๊ณ , ์ถ”ํ›„ ๊ด€์„ธ ๊ณ ์ง€์„œ๊ฐ€ ๋ฐœ์†ก๋  ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ์„ฑ ๋†’์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
โ€ข ์•ฝ 10%๋Š” ๋žœ๋ค ์ „์ˆ˜์กฐ์‚ฌ๋กœ ํ†ต๊ด€ ์ง€์—ฐ(10์ผ ์ด์ƒ) ๋ฐœ์ƒํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
โ€ข ์ตœ์ข… ๊ด€์„ธ์•ก์€ ์˜ˆ์ธก์ด ์–ด๋ ต์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ถ”ํ›„ ์„ ๋‚ฉ/ํ›„๋‚ฉ ์„ ํƒ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•˜๋„๋ก ๋ณ€๊ฒฝ์˜ˆ์ •์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๐Ÿ’ฐ ๊ด€์„ธยทํ†ต๊ด€ ๊ฐ€์ด๋“œ โ€” EMS / ํŠน์†ก

์„ธ๊ด€์‹ ๊ณ ๊ธˆ์•ก (Declared Value) ๋Š” ๋ฐฐ์†ก๋น„๊ฒฐ์ œ์‹œ ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋‹˜๊ป˜์„œ ๊ฒฐ์ • ๋ฐ ์ž…๋ ฅํ•˜์‹ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๐Ÿ“ฎ EMS (์šฐ์ฒด๊ตญ)

์ด์•ก: ์„ธ๊ด€์‹ ๊ณ ๊ธˆ์•ก์˜ 15%(๊ด€์„ธ) + ์šฐ์ฒด๊ตญ ํ†ต๊ด€์ˆ˜์ˆ˜๋ฃŒ: ๊ด€์„ธ์˜ 10%(โ‰ˆ ์‹ ๊ณ ๊ธˆ์•ก์˜ 1.5%) + US $1.04(๋ถ€๊ฐ€์„ธ ๋ณ„๋„)
โ€ข ๋Œ€๋žต ์„ธ๊ด€์‹ ๊ณ ๊ธˆ์•ก์˜ 17~19% ์ˆ˜์ค€
โ€ข 100๋ถˆ ์ดํ•˜ ์„ ๋ฌผ์‹ ๊ณ ์‹œ ๋ฉด์„ธ, ์šฐ์ฒด๊ตญ์ˆ˜์ˆ˜๋ฃŒ US$1.04 (๋ถ€๊ฐ€์„ธ๋ณ„๋„)
โ€ข ๋ฐฐ์†ก๋น„๊ฒฐ์ œ์‹œ(๋ฐ”๋กœ์ถœ๊ณ ์‹ ์ฒญ์‹œ) ์ž…๋ ฅํ•˜์‹œ๋Š” ์„ ๋ฌผํ‘œ๊ธฐ์—ฌ๋ถ€, ์„ธ๊ด€์‹ ๊ณ ๊ธˆ์•ก์— ๋”ฐ๋ฅธ ๊ด€์„ธ๊ฐ€ ๊ฒฐ์ œ๊ธˆ์•ก์— ์ถ”๊ฐ€๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
โ€ข ๊ธฐ๋ณธ๊ด€์„ธ๊ฐ€ ํฌํ•จ๋˜์–ด ๋ฐœ์†ก๋˜๋ฏ€๋กœ ์ˆ˜๋ น์‹œ ๋”ฐ๋กœ ๊ด€์„ธ๋Š” ๋ถ€๊ณผ๋˜์ง€ ์•Š์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
โ€ข CBP์˜ ๋ฌผํ’ˆ๊ธˆ์•ก ์žฌ์‚ฐ์ •, ์ถ”๊ฐ€๊ฒ€์‚ฌ(FDA๋“ฑ), ์„ ๋ฌผ๋ถˆ์ธ์ •๋“ฑ์˜ ๋ฌธ์ œ๋กœ ์ธํ•ด ์ถ”๊ฐ€๊ด€์„ธ๊ฐ€ ๋ฐœ์ƒํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๐Ÿšš ํŠน์†ก (FedEx/DHL/UPS)

์ด์•ก: ์„ธ๊ด€์‹ ๊ณ ๊ธˆ์•ก ร— 15% + ํ’ˆ๋ชฉ๋ณ„ ๊ธฐ๋ณธ ๊ด€์„ธ์œจ(์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฒฝ์šฐ) + ํ†ต๊ด€์ˆ˜์ˆ˜๋ฃŒ($10~$30)

โ€ข ๊ด€์„ธ๋Š” ์„ธ๊ด€์‹ ๊ณ ๊ธˆ์•ก์„ 1์ฐจ ๊ธฐ์ค€์œผ๋กœ ์‚ฐ์ •ํ•˜๋‚˜, ์„ธ๊ด€์€ HS์ฝ”๋“œ/๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ/์‹œ์žฅ๊ฐ€ ๋“ฑ์„ ๊ทผ๊ฑฐ๋กœ ์žฌํ‰๊ฐ€ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ
โ€ข ํŠน์†ก์‚ฌ์˜ ํ†ต๊ด€์ˆ˜์ˆ˜๋ฃŒ๋Š” ์‹ ๊ณ ๊ธˆ์•ก๊ณผ๋Š” ํฌ๊ฒŒ ๊ด€๊ณ„์—†์ด ํ†ต๊ด€๋Œ€ํ–‰๋ช…๋ชฉ์˜ ์ˆ˜์ˆ˜๋ฃŒ๋กœ, ๋ณดํ†ต $10~$30 ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
โ€ข ํŠน์†ก์‚ฌ๋Š” ์„ ๋ฌผ์ทจ๊ธ‰์ด ๋”ฐ๋กœ ์—†์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์„ ๋ฌผ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ํ‘œ์‹œํ›„ ๋ฐœ์†ก์€ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์„ธ๊ด€์—์„œ ์ธ์ •๋  ํ™•๋ฅ ์ด ๋†’์ง€ ์•Š์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๐ŸŽ ์„ ๋ฌผ ๋ฉด์„ธ ๊ทœ์ •

$100 ์ดํ•˜ ์„ ๋ฌผ ๋ฉด์„ธ ์กฐ๊ฑด:
  • ๊ฐœ์ธ์ด ๊ฐœ์ธ์—๊ฒŒ ๋ณด๋‚ด๋Š” ์ง„์ •ํ•œ ์„ ๋ฌผ
  • ์ƒ์—…์  ๊ฑฐ๋ž˜ ํ”์  ์—†์–ด์•ผ ํ•จ
  • ๋™์ผ ์ˆ˜์ทจ์ธ ๊ธฐ์ค€ ํ•˜๋ฃจ $100 ํ•œ๋„
  • EMS๋Š” ์„ ๋ฌผ์ทจ๊ธ‰ ๋ฐœ์†ก์ด ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‹จ, CBP ์—์„œ ์ธ์ •์•ˆ๋  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

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