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Postal traffic into the United States plunged by more than 80% after the Trump administration ended a tariff exemption for low-cost imports, the United Nations postal agency said Saturday. The Universal Postal Union says it has started rolling out new measures that can help postal operators around the world calculate and collect duties, or taxes, …
Last year, whopping 1.3 billion e-commerce packages were shipped from around the world to the US under “de minimis” exemption. I.e., they were worth less than $800. That privilege ended on Aug 29. American small businesses & consumers alike are going to suffer.#MAGA pic.twitter.com/nAmxR3uV8m — S.L. Kanthan (@Kanthan2030) August 30, 2025 “The de minimis rule, …
BREAKING: 🇪🇺🇨🇳 EU airlines saying they’re going to start buying Chinese COMAC planes instead of American Boeings in response to the tariffs- RCE This was announced by the Irish Ryanair. Reuters reports that US lawmakers immediately began threatening the company. pic.twitter.com/vlRz4C4ttT — Megatron (@Megatron_ron) May 2, 2025 🔴 Japan negotiators firmly opposed US proposal – …
Summary of the official White House page https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/04/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-closes-de-minimis-exemptions-to-combat-chinas-role-in-americas-synthetic-opioid-crisis/ 1. Anything sent outside of official postal (via UPS, DHL, FedEx, etc.) will require duties paid, and 2. Anything sent though official post will have a 30% or $25 duty PER ITEM (which ever is greater) starting in May–moving to $50 in June. Welp there goes Temu, …