Euros Halt Shipments To U.S. Over Trump Tariffs
Athens, Greece (AP) – Exemption in tariff tasks for low valuable packages Coming to the United States causes multiple international postal services to pause the transportation while waiting for more clarity in the rule.
Exemption, ” De minimis ”exemptionPackages with lower than $ 800 allow the US to come free of charge. According to the data obtained from the US Customs and Border Patrol Agency, a total of 1.36 billion packages of $ 64.6 billion were sent under this exemption in 2024.
It will end on Friday. On Saturday, postal services around Europe announced that they had suspended the shipment of many packages to the United States due to the confusion of new import tasks.
Postal services in Germany, Denmark, Sweden and Italy will stop sending the most goods to the United States who entered into force. France and Austria will follow on Monday.
Britain’s Royal Mail said that posts to the United States will be stopped on Tuesday to allow these packages to arrive before starting tasks. He said he would take 10% task in the United Kingdom, including over $ 100 – including gifts to friends and family.
DHL, the largest shipping provider in Europe, said, “Especially in the future, the basic questions about how and who cameras will be collected, which additional data will be required and how to transmit data to US customs and border protection were not solved.”
Starting on Saturday, the company said that it cannot accept and carry the parcels and postal products containing goods from targeted enterprises for the United States.
A The trade frame adopted by the US and the European Union Last month, the majority of the products sent from the EU set 15% tariff. Packages below $ 800 will now be subject to tariff.
US CUSTOMER FREE Exemption for goods caused by China In May, it ended as a part of the efforts of the Trump administration to prevent American shoppers from ordering low -valuable Chinese goods. Exemption is expanded to shipments from all over the world.
Many European postal services say that they have paused deliveries because they cannot guarantee that goods will enter the US before 29 August. They point to the uncertainty of what kind of goods are within the scope of new rules and the lack of time to process their consequences.
Nordic Logistics Company Postnord and Italy’s postal service has been suspended on Saturday.
“In the absence of different instructions from US officials on Friday, the Italian said on Friday … The poster will be forced to temporarily suspend the adoption of all posts for the United States, such as Italiana, other European postal operators, from 23 August.
Shipping was possible according to services such as DHL Express.
Björn Bergman, President of Postnord’s Group Brand and Communication, said that the pause was “unfortunate to fully adapt to the new rules, but necessary”.
Postnl spokesman Wutteveen in the Netherlands, Trump administration, said US officials put pressure on new tasks despite the lack of a system to gather them. He said Postnl was working close to US colleagues to find a solution.
“If you have something to send to America, you should do it today,” Associated Press said to Associated Press.
Austria’s leading logistics and postal service provider Austria mail, including the Porto Rico, the last adoption of commercial posts to the United States will be realized on Tuesday.
France’s National Postal Service La poste, the United States does not provide all the details or the French Posta Service does not allow enough time to prepare for new customs procedures, he said.
″ Despite the debate with US Customs Services, postal operators did not give time to reorganize and provide the necessary computer updates to comply with new rules, ”he said.
The posteurop, an association of 51 European Public Postal Operator, said that if no solution was found on August 29, all members will probably follow the case.
Anderson reported from New York. Associated Press writers in Paris Angela Charlton; Thessaloniki, Costas Kantouris in Greece; Stephanie Lichtenstein in Vienna; In London, Brian Melley and Molly Quell in Amsterdam contributed to this report.
