According to international information, the postal services of the United States have abruptly stopped all packages from Hong Kong and China until further announcement Service disorder Published on the USPS website. The move comes to China Remodored retaliation tariffs In the case of US imports, including coal and liquefied natural gas, in response to President Trump’s arrangement, to increase tariffs in China.
Daniel, the owner of a truck company based in Alberta, Canada, who asked to use his first name for data protection reasons only to use packages originally from China. After the company spoke to a US customs and border protection officer in Montana, the company was able to bring a third truck to the state of Washington by removing all packages from China.
He adds that the identification and separation of packages from China is a tedious process, since the goods that its trucks usually carry, include thousands of small plots such as DVDs, toys and video games, all of which come from a variety of sources.
“We spoke to the Montana CBP freight manager and they said everything was of the higher,” says Daniel. “Many trucks were rejected on the border today, we were said by our drivers. And many officials checked and interviewed the trucks (drivers) like: “Are you sure that there are no China articles there? This is her last chance. ‘They actually went through the trucks and accidentally checked the packages. “
So far, packages such as Daniel’s company have often been freely moved across the border. However, Trump’s executive regulation not only raises an additional 10 percent tariff from China, but also ends an important exemption from import tax, which has enabled Chinese E -Commerce platforms Before And Shein.
Known as de Minimis, the rule for the import duties for small packages worth less than 800 US dollars that are delivered to the USA. Originally intended to take out personal gifts and other articles that send Americans from abroad home, it has since made it possible to sell foreign companies to sell to US consumers without worrying about paying import taxes. The number of de -minimis packages has increased in recent years because the E -Commerce market has become more global, which it has difficult -it is impossible -for customs and border protection to keep an eye on all plots flowing into the USA keep.
According to the CBP, Over 1.36 billion de minimis packages Registered in the USA in the 2024 financial year, almost ten times, so to speak, in 2015.
Around 10,000 people According to the US Congress Research Service, work in overseas is stationed, an impartial political research group that serves the congress (the illustration excludes “institutional support” operator). The agency has more than 60 regional and cross -border missions and accounts for less than 1 percent of the total US budget.
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“U.S.CO will submit and process around 100,000 entries every day,” says Bernie Hart, Vice President for Customs and Trade Management Business Development at Flexport, a US company management company. Now agents have to process a few million packages a day and check what is in them and how much they cost.
While earlier administrations have thought of eliminating the liberation or introduction of reforms, Trump is the first to do this. “This is the version of the administration to move quickly and break things,” says Ram Ben Tzion, co -founder and CEO of Publican, a digital shipment -Vetting platform, citing one of the core quarter of the startup culture.
