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.
What a dumb comparison. So many haters of anything US here. Yet, more people want to live here than anywhere else. 😂
Try illegally moving to any other country, try importing duty free anywhere else.
There is a limit under which the shipment is duty-free. Been there, done that. The declartion takes some 10-ish minutes of time. And there’s a system in place for that.
But, here the problem is that USA refuses to accept the money from any other organizations than UPS, FedEx and DHL, which apparently have some kind of back channel they can use. If I import something from China to Finland, I get a message telling me I’ll need to pay up. It then asks for the value of the shipment and the type of the goods and spits out the sum I must pay. Once I’ve paid up, the shipment will continue.
But the US demand is that exclusively the sender pays the money. And the US has no system in place for receiving such payments, so there is no way of paying them. For now.
Again, DHL, FedEx, and UPS all can accept the payment. Just like they do for taxes and duties in other countries.
As already said numerous times in this conversation.
And also, them being able to accept the payment does nothing to help the companies why aren’t, because they are not allowed to use the systems that tell how much they should pay, nor is there anything to receive those payments in the US end.
DHL, FedEx and UPS have some kind of bilateral agreements – official or unofficial, hard to say. Good for them.