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At least 25 countries have decided to suspend package deliveries to the United States, as concern grows over the impact of U.S. President Donald Trump’s looming tariffs, a UN body said Tuesday.

The Trump administration said late last month that it will abolish a tax exemption on small packages entering the United States from August 29.

The move has sparked a flurry of announcements from postal services, including in France, Britain, Germany, Italy, India, Australia and Japan, that most U.S.-bound packages would no longer be accepted.

The United Nations’ Universal Postal Union said it had already been advised by 25 member countries that their postal operators “have suspended their outbound postal services to the U.S., citing uncertainties specifically related to transit services”.

It said the suspensions will remain in place until there is more clarity on how U.S. authorities plan to implement the announced measures.

The UPU did not provide a list of postal services it had heard from.

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[–] LoafedBurrito@lemmy.world 27 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Yeah i really don't think the majority of the population realizes how delicate the global trade system is.

Just recently on August 19th, ALL parts with steel or aluminum in them are tariffed an additional 50%. This covers hundreds of thousands of products we all purchase, and there is ZERO chance of them being manufactured in the USA. This will ruin most of the US economy for those parts as prices skyrocket.

Make sure to buy your car parts NOW before the warehouses are empty and they have to reorder at a 50% higher cost. The tariff covers all car parts including oil filters.

The media is very quiet about this, and we all know why.

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[–] 4shtonButcher@discuss.tchncs.de 19 points 1 day ago (7 children)

Let the Murricans fight it out and fix the mess they started. They shouldn't have nice things if they think fascism and fucking up the planet are the way to go.

And yes, I also mean those that didn't actively support Trump but aren't fighting back.

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[–] HK65@sopuli.xyz 182 points 2 days ago (14 children)

So the reason is not that they would need to pay more and don't want to, but that nobody knows who to pay, what to pay, and how to pay. There is literally no way to send a package to the US today and know how much it will cost.

So this is not Trump being aggressive in negotiation, but just being incompetent.

[–] takeda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 80 points 2 days ago (1 children)

He is actually extremely competent, if the goal is to destroy US' status as a superpower.

[–] Salvo@aussie.zone 48 points 2 days ago (1 children)

That would explain why he had to check in with his FSB handler in Alaska last week.

[–] turtlesareneat@discuss.online 20 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Oh my God trump thinks he's trading Alaska for Greenland. It just clicked.

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 days ago

But he forgot that Greenland has two cannons and 3 horses on it already.

[–] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 11 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Trump wants IOSS, just implemented in a week, somehow by someone else than America themselves, and made immediately mandatory.

[–] HK65@sopuli.xyz 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

And I want a Pilatus PC-12 for free with no maintenance costs, but life is more complicated than that.

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[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 19 points 2 days ago

He thrives off making everybody on edge with uncertainty, that's why he won't tell us WHEN he intends to invade Chicago and other big cities

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[–] Eh_I@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] Stamau123@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

more likely than you think, scan now

[–] CazzoBuco@lemmy.world 62 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (4 children)

As someone in logistics software... it ain't pretty

Even if we KNEW all the details, no way do we have enough manpower and system capacity to clear the additional dozens of thousands of shipments that would switch from automatic 86/03 to needing additional clearance details (but we're prepping for it! Only time will tell)

Buckle up America, this week gon be a bumpy ride, and give a lil leeway to the people getting your Temu packages to you, it ain't their choice this is all happening. You know who to blame.

[–] scarabic@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

The White House needs to host a tariff API with all the current rates for all the countries for all the things.

I mean… LOL but it would be the sane way to carry out their insane clown show.

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[–] peetabix@sh.itjust.works 25 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

From the article:

Full list of countries suspending U.S. parcel shipments

  • Australia
  • Austria
  • Belgium
  • China
  • Czechia
  • Denmark
  • Finland
  • France
  • Germany
  • India
  • Italy
  • Japan
  • Netherlands
  • New Zealand
  • Norway
  • Russia
  • Singapore
  • South Korea
  • Spain
  • Sweden
  • Switzerland
  • Taiwan
  • Thailand
  • United Kingdom
[–] PieMePlenty@lemmy.world 16 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Full like my ass... Slovenia is missing, Croatia too. Honestly I'd wager all EU countries probably have the same suspension.

[–] dwalin@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago

Portugal as well

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[–] Dragomus@lemmy.world 57 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

It's the now age old Trump-Tariff faux-paradox ...

Country A has a package to ship to the US ...

The US tells Country A: 'aha tariffs need to be paid"...

Country A says "okay, tell the recipient to pay the tariffs and give us the ok when they did so we can deliver it past your border".

The US gets angry: "no no someone else pays tariffs not us! How dare you put the tariffs on us! Others are supposed to pay!"

Country A mumbles "ok, be that way", returns the package to sender, sender might refund but keeps shipping costs... and the US customer loses out twice.

[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 37 points 2 days ago (27 children)

Trump is why America can't have nice things

[–] ronigami@lemmy.world 21 points 2 days ago (5 children)

The root cause is a profound anti-intellectual bent.

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[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 16 points 2 days ago

Americans are why Americans can't have nice things.

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[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Wonder if this will effect visas.

[–] glitch1985@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Credit cards are mailed within the United States.

/s

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 2 points 1 day ago

nice. seriously though I just got mine and it took weeks to go from new york to me. Since they are kinda packages I hope its not effected for anyone who found a need to renew for some reason in the last year.

[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Expected and actually surprised it happened

[–] InFerNo@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 day ago

I got a notification from bpost saying it's suspended because they don't know how much the cost will be, so they don't know how much to charge.

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