President Donald Trump has paused imposing tariffs on small-value packages arriving from China, apparently to give federal agencies time to sort out how to process millions of such shipments that have come through the U.

The eventual cancellation of de minimis means the more than 1 billion small-value e-commerce packages arriving annually in the United States with goods coming directly from China must switch to an entry process that requires additional information and duties,

The postal service temporarily stopped accepting packages from China as a result of the order, only to reverse course a day later. The chaos left many in the US wondering about the fate of packages ordered from companies such as Shein and Temu,