Australia, Japan join countries suspending some parcel shipments to the US

Australia and Japan latest countries to halt immoderate postal services to US for goods valued astatine little than $800.

Australia and Japan person joined a increasing database of countries suspending immoderate parcel shipments to the United States aft US President Donald Trump’s medication ended an exemption that allowed packages valued astatine little than $800 to participate the state duty-free.

With the “de minimis” exemption acceptable to extremity connected Friday, Australia Post announced that it was implementing “a impermanent partial suspension”.

In a connection connected Tuesday, Australia Post said it was “disappointed” but the determination was indispensable “due to the analyzable and rapidly evolving situation”.

Packages sent to the US and Puerto Rico lodged connected oregon aft Tuesday volition not beryllium accepted until further notice, the postal work said. Gifts valued astatine little than $100, letters and documents are unaffected by the change.

Australia Post said it would proceed to enactment with the US and Australian authorities and planetary postal partners to resume services to the US soon.

Japan Post made a akin announcement connected Monday, saying the suspension of immoderate parcel shipments was necessary.

The procedures for transport and postal operators were “not clear”, which is “making implementation difficult”, Japan Post said.

A pistillate leaves a subdivision of postal work relation Japan Post successful Kawasaki, adjacent Tokyo, Japan [File: Yuriko Nakao/Reuters]

Australian nationalist broadcaster ABC said immoderate businesses that marque products successful Australia person already suspended shipments, with Australian shipping bundle institution Shippit saying it had seen a diminution successful shipments from Australia to the US adjacent earlier the caller changes came into effect.

“There’s been a 36 percent driblet successful measurement since April successful presumption of outbound shipments from Australia to the US,” Shippit’s main executive, Rob Hango-Zada, said, according to the ABC.

The announcements from Australia and Japan travel aft respective European postal services announced akin changes past week, including Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Italy, France, Austria and the United Kingdom.

The UK’s Royal Mail said it would halt shipments to the US opening connected Tuesday to let clip for those packages to get earlier caller duties footwear in.

“Key questions stay unresolved, peculiarly regarding however and by whom customs duties volition beryllium collected successful the future, what further information volition beryllium required, and however the information transmission to the US Customs and Border Protection volition beryllium carried out,” DHL, the largest shipping supplier successful Europe, said successful a statement.

Since returning to the White House successful January, Trump has announced a rolling question of tariffs, oregon taxes paid connected goods imported into the US.

The changing quality of Trump’s tariffs, which alteration from state to state and are antithetic successful immoderate cases depending connected which products are being imported, has added to the disorder for postal services.

Trump had already ended the “de minimis” exemption with China and Hong Kong connected May 2, closing a loophole which was wide utilized by fast-fashion companies Shein, Temu and others to vessel duty-free.

The taxation and spending measure precocious signed by Trump repealed the ineligible ground for the “de minimis” exemption worldwide starting connected July 1, 2027.

Goods shipped done the postal strategy volition present look 1 of 2 tariffs: either an “ad valorem duty” adjacent to the effectual tariff complaint of the package’s state of root or, for six months, a circumstantial tariff of $80 to $200, depending connected the state of origin’s tariff rate.

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Al Jazeera and quality agencies