# Joe Amalfitano

Joe Amalfitano shares practical guidance on parcel shipping and cross-border e-commerce, including landed costs, customs data, tariffs, and delivery options.

- Profile: https://b2binfluencer.marketing/creators/joe-amalfitano/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joeamalfitano
- LinkedIn followers: 13,035
- Topics: artificial-intelligence, ecommerce, supply-chain
- Based on 15 dated posts, latest 2026-09-29

## Summary

Joe Amalfitano is most useful for practical guidance on parcel shipping, tariffs, customs data, and landed costs.

- Best for: A B2B logistics or e-commerce campaign needing operator guidance, not consumer awareness.
- Not for: Consumer reach, lifestyle sponsorship, or broad brand awareness campaigns.
- Check first: Confirm rates, dates, audience data, and partnership terms before contacting them.

### Takeaways

- Canada counter-tariffs: check top SKUs by Canadian tariff classification, not product category.
- EU low-value parcels: €3 duty applies per different item by tariff heading.
- Keep one HS code, one origin, and one clear description per SKU.

## Main ideas

- **Landed cost is a margin decision, not a shipping problem**: Joe Amalfitano reduces cross-border shipping to three questions: what a shipment actually costs landed, who owns the duty and tax exposure, and what the backup is if a lane breaks. The point: these aren't shipping questions, but margin questions. Duty and de minimis rules keep moving in every major market, so a brand's exposure changes faster than its carrier arrangements—and the cost lands on margin either way.
- **A tariff change is a short operational project, not a headline**: On Canada's counter-tariffs covering about C$27.6 billion of US goods, at 15%, 25% or 50% depending on the item, Joe Amalfitano argues that the useful work happens before the effective date and at the individual-SKU level. They highlight two details the headline number hides: there's no USMCA/CUSMA exemption for US-origin goods on the list, so an origin certificate won't shield a brand; and goods already in transit when the measure takes effect are excluded, creating a real but closing window.
- **Fix customs data per SKU; a cheaper rate won't help**: Joe Amalfitano argues that the fix for customs friction is structure, not rate-shopping: one HS code, one origin and one clear description per SKU, set once and sent with every parcel. The reasoning is accountability: importers are directly responsible for the accuracy and completeness of the customs and product data they supply. They link this to the EU customs reform, under which businesses will supply customs and product information through a new EU Customs Data Hub, mandatory for e-commerce on 1 July 2028.
- **Cut parcel costs, diversify carriers and scale fulfillment without scaling costs**: In the event promotions, Joe Amalfitano names three practical problems they say they will address: reducing parcel shipping costs, diversifying carriers without losing visibility and control, and scaling fulfillment without scaling costs. The pairing matters: adding carriers is only worthwhile if the brand retains visibility and control.
- **Prompt a decision, then offer a direct conversation**: Joe Amalfitano's posts follow a consistent pattern: state the policy change briefly, turn it into actionable steps, then close with a question and an invitation. They address readers as the people who have to act, not as spectators of trade policy, and the commercial offer is consistently a conversation—compare notes, put time on the calendar—rather than a product pitch.

## Work to read

- [Canada’s counter-tariffs: a five-day checklist for D2C brands](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/joeamalfitano_complete-list-of-us-products-subject-to-activity-7501301673366179840-0F1D)
- [Where the HS code for your best-selling SKU actually lives](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/joeamalfitano_crossborderecommerce-eucustoms-hscodes-activity-7510686770741612544-FOsy)
- [Three margin questions Joe Amalfitano wants to discuss at PARCEL Forum '26](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/joeamalfitano_parcelforum-crossborder-ecommerce-activity-7497618125128032256-qTdi)
- [PARCEL Forum preview: landed cost, lane performance and domestic delivery](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/joeamalfitano_parcelforum-crossborder-logistics-activity-7495071284813344768-PRtP)

## Brand relationships

- **Asendia** (mention)
- **PARCEL Forum** (mention)

## Partnerships

Amalfitano’s posts show public-facing work at a trade event, not a media kit: attending and speaking around PARCEL Forum '26 in Orlando (September 14–16, 2026), where the posts advertise practical discussion of parcel shipping costs, carrier diversification, scaling fulfillment without scaling cost, cross-border landed cost, and Canada and EU lane performance. One post offers contacts a $200 registration discount for joining in Orlando, and another invites people to book 20 minutes on-site. The posts publish a work email for scheduling event meetings, not partnership or sponsorship inquiries. They contain no rate card, audience demographics, sponsored-content formats, pricing, or disclosure examples. Brands considering a paid engagement should ask directly about those terms. The posts support evaluating Amalfitano as a source of cross-border shipping and customs guidance, not as a partner for sponsored content.

## Alternatives

- Heather Hoover-Salomon: This is the better choice when the campaign goal is market-level framing rather than a SKU-level action list. Joe Amalfitano’s two posts take a trade shift — proposed US tariffs on Chinese e-commerce imports aimed at low-cost platforms such as AliExpress and Shein — and work through the second-order effects: higher consumer costs, reduced small-parcel volume from China, more customs checks and documentation risk, and sourcing moving to Mexico or Southeast Asia. A separate post covers why zero-emission trucks matter to freight economics. For a campaign about how tariff policy reshapes parcel demand, sourcing lanes, or freight sustainability, that directional analysis is a closer match than a per-SKU compliance checklist.
- Brenda Soucy: This is the better choice when the need is Canada import compliance from the importer’s side of the border — temporary surtaxes, a Canadian International Trade Tribunal investigation, and Canada Border Services Agency verification and reassessment risk. The Custom Notice post works through a concrete measure: a temporary 10% surtax on certain canned vegetable imports effective June 27, 2026, running up to 200 days while the CITT investigates, with the goods listed by category, the surtax calculated at 75% of the Value for Duty, importer declarations in CARM using code 8073, and an explicit instruction to review product classifications, origin determinations, and supporting documentation. For a buyer whose exposure is Canadian entry and post-entry verification, this is closer to the decision than cross-border parcel economics.
- Owen Finch: This is the better choice when the need is domestic parcel and fulfillment cost economics rather than international duty and customs. Joe Amalfitano’s posts go deep on the mechanics a shipper can price: how Additional Handling is triggered around 10,368 cubic inches, how the Oversize charge takes over past 17,280 cubic inches, that the two do not stack and only the larger applies, when shifting a shipment from parcel to LTL actually saves money once surcharges and negotiated freight rates are accounted for, and why a 3PL saying no to out-of-scope clients is part of reliable service. Both posts use Red Stag Fulfillment as the working example, and one closes with a booking link. For a campaign on US parcel surcharges, carrier diversification, or 3PL selection discipline, this is a direct fit.

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