Posted on 08/30/2025 7:14:06 AM PDT by DoodleBob
Several postal services around the world have paused package deliveries to the United States this week, and it's not because they're overwhelmed with shipping demand. The suspensions, which affect shipments of goods valued under $800, follow a recent executive order that President Trump signed that effectively ends the de minimis exemption on August 29.
The fallout has been swift and global. We're talking about major disruptions from Europe to Asia that might impact many American small businesses, limit where you can shop, and make it more complicated and expensive to receive the items you order.
What countries have limited deliveries, and why
Postal services in countries like Germany, Japan, France and Australia have announced service suspensions until further notice. Most suspensions cited logistical challenges and uncertainty over the U.S.'s tariff policies after the elimination of the de minimis exemption.
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The de minimis exemption is basically a free pass for small packages. Since 1938, any package you receive from overseas that’s valued under a certain limit gets to skip customs fees and import taxes when it arrives in the U.S. That limit has been $800 since 2016.
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But postal services worldwide say they're scrambling to figure out how this will actually work. Key questions remain unresolved, particularly regarding how and by whom customs duties will be collected in the future, what additional data will be required, and how the data transmission to the U.S. Customs and Border Protection will be carried out.
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We all voted for this.
Exactly.
Last year I could get on ebay, 100 pack of parts from China with shipping included for $2. I can’t ship them in USA for under $10.
We all voted for this.
:-)
(Except for the one I replied to! .... Must’ve voted for KommieLa!)
Except not everybody can multiple. My favorite writer/ seller of books about music, who is Canadian, just folded. There’s multiple opportunity for him. He would just send you the 1 or 2 books you ordered. Now with the new regs it’s just not worth it for him. It sucks. And accomplishes nothing. It doesn’t make us great, it makes us lame.
Allowing foreign entities to invest in essential commodities is a huge mistake
, the working class lower income are the ones who will suffer the most through this foreign takeover of the food supply chain.
Trump is the first president in history to try and save the sinking USship, the Clintons/Obama really did a lot of irreversible damage to the US economy in exchange for personal wealth.
which results in reactions like "not what I voted for" which is an indication that the propaganda blitz against Trump is working
every headline I read has a slant designed to demonize Trump
They will cave global boy.
Notice the collusion going on. nwrep ( TDS freak ) post is no.2. His TDS friends alerted him to be at the top. Free Traitors™ are nasty and need to be dealt with like any other form of traitor.
POSTAL systems.
DHL, FEDEX, UPS are still delivering, no?
#freetradeornotrade
Go buy some testosterone Alice.
If I remember correctly, you used to pay at the post office when you picked the package up.
Move to the UK.
You will LOVE it there.
Selling to Canada is almost impossible without a distributor. Excessive duties duty destroy even small sales. UK is similar. I've been been able to send non-commercial samples to China without too much trouble, except for expensive shipping.
Essentially, the whole world has been able to easily sell into the US market, but they have in turn used tariffs, regulations, and shipping fees to prevent US companies from easily selling into their markets. The better solution would be for these countries to voluntarily drop their restrictions - but since that isn't going to happen, cutting them off from easy access to the US consumer is the only short-term fix.
Great.
Need a part for my German-made bicycle that has to come from Germany.
I’ll never see it now..
Thank you!
Sorry, but UK has other, bigger problems.
Good point.
Yep. Well aware.
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