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Why 20+ countries just froze shipping to the U.S. (and what it means for you)
AOL ^ | August 28, 2025 | YAHIA BARAKAH

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.

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.

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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KEYWORDS: deminimisexemption; shipping; somuchwinning; tariffs; taxesandtariffs; thankstrump
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To: Jane Long

We all voted for this.


21 posted on 08/30/2025 7:44:09 AM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: chief lee runamok

Exactly.


22 posted on 08/30/2025 7:44:23 AM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: chief lee runamok

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.


23 posted on 08/30/2025 7:44:57 AM PDT by George from New England (escaped CT back in 2006)
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To: No name given

We all voted for this.


:-)

(Except for the one I replied to! .... Must’ve voted for KommieLa!)


24 posted on 08/30/2025 7:51:09 AM PDT by Jane Long (Jesus is Lord!)
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To: bobbo666

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.


25 posted on 08/30/2025 7:58:27 AM PDT by discostu (like a dog being shown a card trick)
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To: econjack
I also think the spike in US food prices , which is still in the pricepoint marketing phase, going up and up until it can't no more, because foriegn investors now own most of the food supply chain, as well as large food processing. They are also trying to get control of the electrical grid.

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.

26 posted on 08/30/2025 7:59:27 AM PDT by KTM rider
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To: DoodleBob
Keep in mind, these "news" headlines are mostly hyped up hyperbole designed to demonize Trump for anything he does to try and reverse the things that our politicians have taken bribes for for centuries which screw over the working class.

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

27 posted on 08/30/2025 8:05:33 AM PDT by KTM rider
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To: nwrep

They will cave global boy.


28 posted on 08/30/2025 8:08:20 AM PDT by central_va ( I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: nwrep; All
Note to everyone except Free Traitors™:

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.

29 posted on 08/30/2025 8:14:07 AM PDT by central_va ( I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: DoodleBob

POSTAL systems.

DHL, FEDEX, UPS are still delivering, no?


30 posted on 08/30/2025 8:14:29 AM PDT by normbal (normbal. Non-native Tennessean.)
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To: central_va

#freetradeornotrade


31 posted on 08/30/2025 8:15:18 AM PDT by normbal (normbal. Non-native Tennessean.)
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To: nwrep

Go buy some testosterone Alice.


32 posted on 08/30/2025 8:22:02 AM PDT by bray (It's not racist to be racist against races the DNC hates.)
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To: DoodleBob

If I remember correctly, you used to pay at the post office when you picked the package up.


33 posted on 08/30/2025 8:23:20 AM PDT by PAR35
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To: nwrep
We know.

Move to the UK.

You will LOVE it there.

34 posted on 08/30/2025 8:26:24 AM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear ( Not my circus. Not my monkeys. But I can pick out the clowns at 100 yards.)
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To: Mariner
China is EASY compared to Canada.

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.

35 posted on 08/30/2025 8:29:28 AM PDT by Mr. Jeeves ([CTRL]-[GALT]-[DELETE])
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To: DoodleBob

Great.

Need a part for my German-made bicycle that has to come from Germany.

I’ll never see it now..


36 posted on 08/30/2025 8:43:49 AM PDT by Bon of Babble (You Say You Want a Revolution?)
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To: central_va

Thank you!


37 posted on 08/30/2025 8:55:24 AM PDT by nwrep
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

Sorry, but UK has other, bigger problems.


38 posted on 08/30/2025 8:55:51 AM PDT by nwrep
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To: bobbo666

Good point.


39 posted on 08/30/2025 8:56:18 AM PDT by nwrep
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To: DoodleBob

Yep. Well aware.


40 posted on 08/30/2025 9:03:01 AM PDT by sauropod
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