WORLD POSTAL UNION REJECTS TRUMP’S FAVORED REFORM PLAN
In a showdown Tuesday at a Universal Postal Union meeting, countries rejected the Trump administration’s favored approach to an international mail problem that is making the U.S. consider leaving the 145-year-old body.
The meeting in Geneva this week is shaping up as a test of the Trump administration’s diplomatic clout. Trump trade envoy Peter Navarro appealed “personally” on Tuesday’s opening day of the emergency meeting for countries to support Washington’s reform push.
Why do I get the feeling this innocuous article is a HUGE deal?
https://apnews.com/30d73d7eb31241709ea3aee64afb23bb
I was curious what the reform Trump wants they rejected. Copying a few bits that explain it. Trump is going after world wide corruption that rips off the US (and others). MTWWGA! (Make The Whole World Great Again!)
https://apnews.com/30d73d7eb31241709ea3aee64afb23bb
The Trump administration insists that some postal carriers, such as China’s, aren’t paying enough to have foreign shipments delivered to U.S. recipients and argues the current international mail system is ill-suited for the 21st-century boom in shipping because of e-commerce.
“The mission here today is to retool this system for the brave new world of e-commerce,” Navarro said in brief remarks to delegates. “As we say in America, ‘You know what to do.’”
The complaint centers on the reimbursement that the U.S. Postal Service receives for providing final deliveries of bulky letters and small parcels sent from abroad, usually ones not weighing more than 2 kilograms (about 4½ pounds). Such mail can often include mobile phones, memory sticks or pharmaceuticals.
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He said under the existing system, the United States is forced to “heavily subsidize” the importation of small parcels “in a way that costs our Postal Service hundreds of millions of dollars a year and costs our economy tens of thousands of jobs.”
He said “no reasonable person” could support the existing reimbursement system.
Why do I get the feeling this innocuous article is a HUGE deal?
Because back in October 2018 Trump through Pompeo gave 1 year notice of withdrawing from the World Postal Union
Unless the WPU agrees to the USA terms
So they rejected the USA terms
USA will quit on 10/17/19.....and China no longer has access to low cost subsidized mail to the USA...and a big impact on their trade particularly in fentenyl.