When mailing a letter to the U.S. becomes a global headache

Brian West, a retired restaurant in Thailand, thought that the six weeks had a lot of time to renew the New York driver’s license. All he had to do was to give an application form and vision test results to the Motor Vehicles Department Office in Brooklyn.

When he tried to do this last Friday, he refused to send post office documents near his house in Chiang Mai.

The country’s postal service Tayland Post, transportation partners President Donald Trump’s decision to end the decision to end the exemption of duty for low -valuable imports, stopped sending mail to the USA. Many postal services in the world have done the same thing as they expect clarity about how Trump, which will enter into force on Friday at midnight.
While some carriers said that the suspensions were temporary, they created a headache and confusion for people who had never thought about leaving a letter or parcel to the United States in the Post Office.

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Düşünmek It sounds helpless to think that I couldn’t send a post to the US, D West said that everyone cannot use a more expensive courier service like UPS or Fedex. He said he would wait a few more days, but if the suspension hadn’t been removed until then, he would have had to go out about $ 50 for a courier. The change of rules of Trump aims to prevent the use of a space where Chinese retailers, such as Shein and Temu, sell cheap products directly to US consumers without customs inspections or duties. For years, buyers in the United States can accept parcels of up to $ 800 without having to pay customs duties. The President’s decision to eliminate the exemption of the President echoed far beyond China.

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It is not clear how many countries have taken such steps or how long the restrictions will last. However, suspensions are particularly bulky for people who cannot meet couriers or live in areas without easy access.

Christopher, a writer who lives in the British countryside, said that he sent two groups of groups of book plates for his new novel last week for his new novel, sent to the US publisher Penguin Random House, and that posts were temporarily stopped to the USA. Instead, he said that the shipment cost should take about an hour to an UPS office where it will be significantly higher.

In November, “Star Wars: Usta of Evil Master” Christopher, “This is not the end of the world,” he said. “This is just a very disturbing situation.”

“It sounds small, but if you multiply it, many people are affected, they are tremendous.”

Virginia, Alexandria, a special sugar and Soda shop owner Tonya Kemp, last week, the sugar suppliers in Europe and Canada last week could not fill their orders until the new customs requirements were better understood.

For now, to fill their shelves, coffee crisp chocolate, salty caramel and hazelnut Kit Kats and the UK are digestive cookies and jelly dolls – have enough special desserts. However, without knowing when the Mail will continue, he was not sure that sugar would not be intertwined when costs increase significantly.

“They’re all very popular,” he said. But with extra shipping costs, “Where will people stop paying so high for a sugar bar?” He said.

In the Philippines, people send Christmas gifts to relatives in the United States in September to avoid year -end shipping additional fees. Customers fill their packages with cheese, sweet Philippinine spaghetti sauce, snacks that are not easily available in the US and spice mixtures, says Rein Gatchalian, the owner of the Box Padala, who sends packages from Manila. Gatchaalian, shipments usually fell far below $ 800, he said.

“Sometimes there are clothes and shoes, but often the comfort of creatures they miss from the Philippines,” he said. As the suspension comes into play, nothing will change for its customers in the Philippines, but the US relatives should start paying tasks when the boxes arrive.

In a statement made in early August, the mail service in the Philippines said that the US shipping buyers may encounter a tax between $ 80 and $ 200.

Giovanni Castro, a business owner in Baguio, north of Manila, was still trying to understand which tax to be applied for its products. The online store Tinkerboy produces adapters to use old keyboards and game consoles with newer computers. Most of the products are lower than $ 50 and Castro said that 90% of orders come from the USA.

“If a certain task is too heavy, it wouldn’t make sense.” He said.

The post office in Baguio said that Castro would suspend referrals to the United States from Friday, when Castro transferred to customers at a red poster at the top of the website.

This article was initially published in the New York Times.