Us customs duty alert updated 1023

[Updated Oct 23] U.S. Customs Duty & Tariff Changes Effective Aug 29, 2025

Notice

07.31.2025

๐Ÿšจ URGENT NOTICE

US Customs Policy Major Update

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

๐Ÿ—“ Key Changes

โŒ Before

Under $800

Duty FREE! ๐ŸŽ‰

โœ… After (8/29~)

All Amounts

Duties Apply! ๐Ÿ’ธ

โš ๏ธ Important: Only bona fide gifts โ‰ค $100 may qualify for exemption; criteria are strict.

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

  • EMS and Sea Parcel to the USA have resumed (Korea Post notice as of Oct 23, 2025)
  • DDP mandatory: duties & clearance fees must be prepaid in Korea before dispatch.
  • Final duty amount is unknown until postage is paid and the package is submitted & accepted by Korea Post.

Temporary Conditions (until system upgrade)

  1. Pay the shipping fee as usual.
  2. Maintain a customs deposit.
  3. Deposit: โ‰ฅ 50% of the declared value, minimum โ‚ฉ100,000.
  4. After acceptance, we deduct the actual duty from your deposit.
  5. CBP may reโ€‘evaluate and charge additional duties.
System roadmap: Korea Post plans a system upgrade during November, after which shipping payment including duties may be possible. Until then, EMS and Sea Parcel can be shipped under the temporary conditions noted above.

๐Ÿ“ฆ Express (FedEx) โ€” Current Guidance

โ€ข FedEx account number required (create one here)
โ€ข FedEx often charges customs duties after delivery is completed.
โ€ข About 50% of shipments are currently delivered without duty upfront, but a duty bill is expected later.
โ€ข About 10% experience random inspections with customs delays (often 10+ days).
โ€ข Final duty amounts can be unpredictable.

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

You can decide and enter the declared value at the time of shipping payment.

๐Ÿ“ฎ EMS (Korea Post)

Current Guide:
โ€ข Total: 15% of declared value (duty) + 10% of the duty as Korea Post clearance fee (โ‰ˆ 1.5% of declared value) + US $1.04 (VAT excluded).
โ€ข Rough estimate: ~17โ€“19% of declared value.
โ€ข May vary by country of origin, item category, and changes in Korean tariff rates.

๐Ÿšš Express (FedEx/DHL/UPS)

Total: Declared value ร— 15% + category base duty (if any) + Customs brokerage fee

โ€ข Duties are based on the declared value as a first criterion; however, CBP may reassess based on HS code/brand/market prices.
โ€ข Express carriers typically charge a brokerage fee (โ‰ˆ $10โ€“$30).

๐ŸŽ Gift Exemption Rules

$100 gift exemption requires:
  • Genuine gift from an individual to an individual
  • No commercial transaction evidence
  • $100 limit per recipient per day
  • Gift exemption is rarely applied and uncertain for now

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๐Ÿ“ข ํ•ต์‹ฌ ๋ณ€๊ฒฝ์‚ฌํ•ญ

โŒ ์ด์ „

$800 ์ดํ•˜

๊ด€์„ธ FREE! ๐ŸŽ‰

โœ… ํ˜„์žฌ (8/29~)

๋ชจ๋“  ๊ธˆ์•ก

๊ด€์„ธ ๋ถ€๊ณผ! ๐Ÿ’ธ

โš ๏ธ ์ค‘์š”: $100 ์ดํ•˜ ‘์ง„์ •ํ•œ ์„ ๋ฌผ’๋งŒ ์˜ˆ์™ธ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋ฉด์„ธ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•˜๋‚˜, ์กฐ๊ฑด์ด ๋งค์šฐ ๊นŒ๋‹ค๋กญ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๐Ÿšš EMSยท์„ ๋ฐ•์†Œํฌ(์šฐ์ฒด๊ตญ) โ€” ์žฌ๊ฐœ + DDP

  • ๋ฏธ๊ตญํ–‰ EMS ๋ฐ ์„ ๋ฐ•์†Œํฌ๊ฐ€ ์žฌ๊ฐœ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค(2025๋…„ 10์›” 23์ผ ์šฐ์ฒด๊ตญ ๊ณต์ง€ ๊ธฐ์ค€)
  • DDP ์˜๋ฌดํ™”: ํ•œ๊ตญ์—์„œ ๋ฐœ์†ก๋˜๊ธฐ ์ „ ๊ด€์„ธยทํ†ต๊ด€์ˆ˜์ˆ˜๋ฃŒ๋ฅผ ์„ ๋‚ฉํ•ด์•ผ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
  • ์ตœ์ข… ๊ด€์„ธ๊ธˆ์•ก์€ ์šฐ์ฒด๊ตญ์— ๋ฐฐ์†ก๋น„ ๊ฒฐ์ œ ๋ฐ ํŒจํ‚ค์ง€ ์ ‘์ˆ˜ยท์Šน์ธ ์ „๊นŒ์ง€ ํ™•์ •๋˜์ง€ ์•Š์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์‹œ์Šคํ…œ ์—…๊ทธ๋ ˆ์ด๋“œ ์ „ ์ž„์‹œ ์กฐ๊ฑด

  1. ๊ธฐ์กด๊ณผ ๋™์ผํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋ฐฐ์†ก๋น„ ๊ฒฐ์ œ
  2. ๊ด€์„ธ ๋‚ฉ๋ถ€์šฉ ๋””ํŒŒ์ง“ ๋ณด์œ 
  3. ๋””ํŒŒ์ง“: ์‹ ๊ณ ๊ธˆ์•ก์˜ 50% ์ด์ƒ, ์ตœ์†Œ โ‚ฉ100,000
  4. ์šฐ์ฒด๊ตญ ์ ‘์ˆ˜ ํ›„ ๊ด€์„ธ ํ™•์ • ์‹œ, ๋””ํŒŒ์ง“์—์„œ ์ฐจ๊ฐ
  5. CBP์—์„œ ์žฌํ‰๊ฐ€ ๋ฐ ์ถ”๊ฐ€ ๊ด€์„ธ ๋ถ€๊ณผ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ
์‹œ์Šคํ…œ ๋กœ๋“œ๋งต: 11์›” ์ค‘ ์šฐ์ฒด๊ตญ ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ ์—…๊ทธ๋ ˆ์ด๋“œ๋กœ ๊ด€์„ธ ํฌํ•จ ๋ฐฐ์†ก๋น„ ๊ฒฐ์ œ๊ฐ€ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•ด์งˆ ์˜ˆ์ •์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ์ „๊นŒ์ง€๋Š” ์œ„ ์ž„์‹œ ์กฐ๊ฑด์œผ๋กœ EMS/์„ ๋ฐ•์†Œํฌ ๋ฐœ์†ก์ด ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๐Ÿ“ฆ FedEx(ํŠน์†ก)

โ€ข FedEx ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋ฒˆํ˜ธ ํ•„์ˆ˜ (๊ฐ€์ž… ๋ฐ”๋กœ๊ฐ€๊ธฐ)
โ€ข FedEx๋Š” ๋ฐฐ๋‹ฌ ์™„๋ฃŒ ํ›„ ๊ด€์„ธ๋ฅผ ์ฒญ๊ตฌํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒฝ์šฐ๊ฐ€ ๋งŽ์Œ
โ€ข ํ˜„์žฌ ์•ฝ 50%๋Š” ์ผ๋‹จ ๊ด€์„ธ ์—†์ด ๋ฐฐ์†ก๋˜๋‚˜, ์ถ”ํ›„ ๊ด€์„ธ ๊ณ ์ง€์„œ๊ฐ€ ๋ฐœ์†ก๋  ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ์„ฑ ํผ
โ€ข ์•ฝ 10%๋Š” ๋žœ๋ค ์ „์ˆ˜์กฐ์‚ฌ๋กœ ํ†ต๊ด€ ์ง€์—ฐ(10์ผ ์ด์ƒ) ๋ฐœ์ƒ
โ€ข ์ตœ์ข… ๊ด€์„ธ์•ก์€ ์˜ˆ์ธก์ด ์–ด๋ ค์›€

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)

ํ˜„์žฌ ๊ฐ€์ด๋“œ:
โ€ข ์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€์œผ๋กœ ์˜ˆ์ƒ
โ€ข ์›์‚ฐ์ง€/ํ’ˆ๋ชฉ, ํ•œ๊ตญ ๊ด€์„ธ์œจ ๋ณ€๋™ ๋“ฑ์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ ๋‹ฌ๋ผ์งˆ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Œ

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” ์‹ ๊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.

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„
  • ์‹œํ–‰์ดˆ๊ธฐ๋ผ์„œ ์‹ค์ œ ์ ์šฉ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ์„ฑ์ด ๋‚ฎ๊ณ , ๋ถˆํ™•์‹ค

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