25 countries suspend package deliveries to US over new tariff rules
25 countries suspend package deliveries to US over new tariff rules
The UN postal agency said Tuesday that 25 countries had decided to suspend package deliveries to the United States, as concern grows over the impact of President Donald Trump’s looming tariffs.
The Trump administration has said 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 in France, Germany, India, Australia, and other countries that most US-bound packages would no longer be accepted.
A Deutsche Post sign adorns a post office in Berlin 15 May 2007. Deutsche Post, the semi-privatised German postal service, said 15 May that it got off to a good start in 2007, with earnings rising in the first quarter. Deutsche Post currently holds a monopoly on the delivery of letters weighing less than 50 grammes, but the opening of the country’s postal services market to competition is planned for 01
The UN’s Universal Postal Union said it had already been advised by “postal operators of 25 member countries… that they have suspended their outbound postal services to the US, citing uncertainties specifically related to transit services.
“These suspensions will remain in place pending further information on how US authorities will operationalise (their announced) measures as well as actual implementation of the required operational changes,” it said in a statement.
AFP
