cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/35098148
At least 25 countries have decided to suspend package deliveries to the United States, as concern grows over the impact of U.S. President Donald Trump’s looming tariffs, a UN body said Tuesday.
The Trump administration said late last month that it will abolish a tax exemption on small packages entering the United States from August 29.
The move has sparked a flurry of announcements from postal services, including in France, Britain, Germany, Italy, India, Australia and Japan, that most U.S.-bound packages would no longer be accepted.
The United Nations’ Universal Postal Union said it had already been advised by 25 member countries that their postal operators “have suspended their outbound postal services to the U.S., citing uncertainties specifically related to transit services”.
It said the suspensions will remain in place until there is more clarity on how U.S. authorities plan to implement the announced measures.
The UPU did not provide a list of postal services it had heard from.
Things have gotten so bad that we’re having to find tiny island clusters in the South Pacific to compare the US to in order to make their import logistics seem reasonable.
I don’t even disagree that there’s plenty of other countries that make importing a pain, but the free market was supposed to be the US’s whole thing. Like, the US can’t even America properly any more.
Its not just tiny countries. This is common most places. Travel and import things and report back.
A one-way free market isn’t good for the US.
If you’re going to be condescending, at least check your facts first. De minimis import exceptions are extremely common, especially in developed countries (including the whole EU, Japan, Australia, NZ to name a few): https://zonos.com/docs/guides/de-minimis-values
EU de minimis does not apply to US imports. Japan is about $70, Australian non resident businesses over $75k of sales need to register and pay GST (10%) regardless of the de minimis, for NZ, the threshold is about $30k and the GST is 15%
Facts.
Yes, all of which mean that you can send stuff of low value in the regular postal system to those countries.
You seem to be arguing the whole thing from a trade deficit position or a Trumpist “waaaah, it’s not fair how we’re importing so much stuff”, when that’s not what the story is about at all. Several other posters have already explained this to you.
My argument is to remove your self imposed limit of “regular postal system” and this is a non issue. You as a business absolutely can send packages to US customers. The costs have gone up but you can still ship.
You seem to be arguing from a point of orange man is bad and trade should be free (except for US businesses).
All countries should remove all barriers to trade!
I never voted for Trump and have never in my life voted Republican. I do have a history as a business owner dealing with unfair trade practices from other countries though.
Which is a weird thing to repeatedly argue in the thread of a story about the regular postal system.
Now you’re just inventing things in your own imagination. Neither I nor anyone else in this thread has suggested that the US doesn’t have the right to modify its own tariffs, and yet you keep imagining that we are in order to keep fuelling whatever it is you’re trying to push. I’m sorry you had difficulty with your own little importing issue, but you’ve picked the wrong thread to grind your axe about it.
I’m sorry your business isn’t agile enough to deal with your logistics issues. Perhaps you can find a market in your home country. 🤷🏻
This shipping limitation is exaggerated. How many people commenting here with the sky is falling are actually impacted in a way that can’t be corrected?