A Cuban resident in Spain encountered a huge surprise when he went to pick up a package at a post office: he was required to fill out a number of forms that he did not expect, and when he asked why, the employee replied that it was "because of Donald Trump".
The man, identified on TikTok as @viniloflow, posted a 22-second video last Sunday in which he recounts the experience with disbelief and humor, and has garnered over 40,000 views.
I came here to email because I ordered something and it turns out that now I have to fill out a ton of paperwork," she recounts in the video. "I tell the girl: hey, why is it such a hassle now to buy things online? She says it's because of Donald Trump."
The reaction from the Cuban was immediate: "Already in Spain, they are blaming Donald Trump. Tell me, what's wrong with these people?"
What caught his attention the most was the comparison he immediately made with the systems he knows firsthand. "Socialism is coming here. No, not socialism: communism. Right now, this is just another dictatorship. Holy God, God," he concludes in the clip.
Behind the anecdote lies a concrete explanation. The Trump administration signed Executive Order 14324 on July 30, 2025, eliminating the tariff exemption known as "de minimis," which allowed packages valued at or below 800 dollars to enter the United States without incurring tariffs or going through complex customs procedures.
The measure came into effect on August 29, 2025 and forced Correos España to temporarily suspend shipments to the United States starting from August 25 of that year.
Correos resumed service on October 3, 2025, after updating its technological systems, becoming one of the first postal operators in the world to reactivate shipments.
Since then, all packages destined for the United States require a formal customs declaration, extended sender information, tariff codes, and the payment of duties at the origin, which vary between 10% and 50% depending on the country and type of product.
More than 30 European countries, including Germany, have paused their shipments to the United States due to a lack of preparedness for the new requirements.
In addition, the European Union has implemented its own changes: the H1 system became mandatory as of October 15, 2025, the CATCH system from January 10, 2026, and a three-euro tariff for small imported packages from platforms like Temu or Shein is set to take effect on July 1, 2026.
For Cubans in Spain —an estimated community of around 200,000 people— used to comparing any bureaucratic excesses with the systems in Cuba or Venezuela, the situation is particularly striking, and the reaction of the man in the video sums it up perfectly: "Tell me something, how are these people doing?"
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