US Postal Service will accept packages from China, Hong Kong after freezing | Business and economy news
The postal service says that working with the US border agency is on a “effective mechanism of collection” for the Chinese tariff of Donald Trump.
The Postal Service of the United States (USPS) announced that it would re -accept packages from China, reversing the suspension that followed the President Donald Trump’s decision To complete the trade provisions used by sellers to deliver a low -value package regardless of the US.
Said USPS UA statement That they will continue to accept “all international entry mail and packages from China and Hong Kong”, in force on Wednesday.
“USPS and customs and border protection are working closely to implement an effective collection mechanism for new Chinese tariffs to ensure the least disorders of the package delivery,” it said.
Trump’s administration imposed Additional tariff of 10 percent on Chinese goods and closed exemption of “De Minimis” that allows us customers to avoid paying tariffs for shipments below $ 800 from China.
USPS did not immediately comment on whether his temporary suspension was related to Trump’s command that ended the de minimis shipment from China, which came into force just after midnight on Tuesday.
“It was really an absolutely zero time for anyone to prepare for it,” said Maureen Cori, a co -founder in the New York consulting chain of the supply chain, she told Reuters news agency.
“What we really need is instructions from the Government to solve it without warning or notification.”
Trump threatened the largest trade partners in his country with steep tariffs for weeks, even before he took his duty on January 20th.
While Trump continued 10 percent of tariffs on Chinese goods this week, he outdated 25 percent of tariffs against Canada and Mexico, while two countries have committed themselves to fighting drug trade and irregular migrations at their borders with the USA.
China responded to Trump’s move Announcing their own retaliation, including 15 percent of coal imports and liquefied natural gas (LNG) from the USA.
The Chinese Ministry of Finance also announced on Tuesday that there would be 10 percent of tariffs to import US raw oil, agricultural machinery, large shift vehicles and trucks.
Beijing said that Washington’s decision “seriously violates the rules of the World Trade Organization, does nothing to solve her own problems and disrupts normal economic and trade cooperation between China and the United States.”
