25 countries suspend postal services to U.S. over tariffs: UN
Summary: La discusión aborda el impacto de las nuevas tarifas de importación en los Estados Unidos impuestas por la administración de Trump, las cuales han llevado a 25 países a suspender sus servicios postales hacia EE. UU., según el cuerpo de la ONU. musicyouneed y thefruga-84 expresan frustración y critican a Trump y a otros líderes como Musk y Bezos. brettjet38 menciona que estas medidas son un atajo para aumentar los impuestos necesarios para el gobierno, mientras que thefruga-84 discute los porcentajes de tarifas y la capacidad de absorber estos costos. A diferencia de otros, reallynicestamps menciona la posible exclusión de EE. UU. de la Unión Postal Universal debido a estas acciones. fergua3 especula sobre posibles devoluciones masivas de paquetes si otras naciones no encuentran soluciones.
https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/article/25-countries-suspend-postal-services-to-us-over-tariffs-un/
At least 25 countries have decided to suspend package deliveries to the United States, as concern grows over the impact of 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.
‘Considerable operational changes’
The organisation, which was established in 1874 and counts 192 member states, warned that the new U.S. measures would “entail considerable operational changes for postal operators around the world”.
From Friday, the UPU said the measures would require postal carriers delivering packages to the United States “to collect customs duties from senders in advance”, on behalf of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency.
India’s communications ministry said at the weekend that Trump’s executive order issued last month requires transport carriers or other “qualified parties” approved by U.S. authorities to collect and remit the tariff duties.
But “several critical processes relating to the designation of ‘qualified parties’ and mechanisms for duty collection and remittance remain undefined,” it said in a statement.
Under the new U.S. measures, individual customers will still be able to send documents and items worth up to $100 as presents to the country without being taxed.
But anything above that value is expected to be hit with the same tariff rates applied to other imports from the sending country.
That means 15 percent for countries in the European Union and 50 percent for India.
And Germany’s postal service DHL warned last week that even exempted items would be subject to extra checks to prevent the service being used for commercial goods.
‘sustainable solutions’
The UPU stressed that it was “taking all possible measures to prepare its member countries for the impacts (the new measures) may have on their postal flows”.
UPU chief Masahiko Metoki had sent a letter to U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Monday to convey member countries’ concern regarding the operational disruptions, it said.
Pointing to the short implementation timeline and voicing particular concern over the impact on the delivery of e-commerce items, the union said it was “working with the relevant U.S. authorities to ensure that information on the operational requirements of the measures is communicated effectively to other member countries”.
In parallel, it said it was working with “relevant postal stakeholders” to help find sustainable solutions, including one initiative aimed at developing a system to facilitate duty collection and remittance across its network.
reallynicestamps
·11 months agoHe said in his first term that he wanted to leave the Universal Postal Union.
This term he may get the USA kicked out of the UPU.
fergua3
·11 months agoi'm surprised it's only 25 countries. Unless the others have some solution already in place there are potentially going to be a lot of returned packages to the other 170 odd countries in the world.
musicyouneed
·11 months agoIt is amazing that one person can have this affect on the whole world by turning it upside down. Everyone kisses his ___ not to get on the wrong side of this vindictive person. I am so mad right now.
thefruga-84
·11 months agoAlso I think it gives far too much credit to Trump actually having any mental acuity. Read those executive orders, man wouldn’t have the attention span to put together a paragraph of that. None of this is meant to exonerate the felon but it’s definitely a reminder that he’s just another puppet with his strings being pulled.
brettjet38
OP11 months agoOne of those puppet masters pulling a string is the United Nations’ Universal Postal Union.
This will be resolved quickly.
Get ready, shoppers and shippers, no escaping the duties and tariffs or taxes anymore. Trump just gave the puppetmasters a shortcut to the endgame.
GOV needs TAXES to operate, and China was the final thorn that forced all this.
thefruga-84
·11 months agoFair analysis, but can we get some reasonable duty numbers? I would pay 5-10% out of my margins to keep shipping to the States and call it a cost of doing business. 15-50% + additional fees on the whims of whoever is about as onerous as it gets.
brettjet38
OP11 months ago"International buyers – please note: Import duties, taxes, and charges aren't included in the item price or postage cost. These charges are the buyer's responsibility."
"Please check with your country's customs office to determine what these additional costs will be prior to bidding or buying."
eBay
Will I subsidise a Buyer's obligations, by absorbing more "costs"...