Japan suspends some parcel deliveries to U.S. as a consequence of Trump tariffs

The mail service will cease accepting parcels that embody shopper items on the market or presents price over $100 from Wednesday, after the U.S. revoked its tariff exemption on lower-value packages from internationally, in accordance with a assertion revealed on its web site.

“It isn’t clear what the suitable processes for delivery corporations and postal providers are underneath the brand new pointers, making operation extraordinarily tough. We’ll due to this fact be suspending the acceptance of smaller packages,” the assertion stated.

U.S. customers had been capable of purchase low-cost items from overseas underneath what was known as the de minimis exemption, which allowed for smaller packages to be shipped into the U.S. duty-free. 

That tariff exemption was revoked on Might 2 for China and has now additionally been repealed for the remainder of the world in a presidential order signed July 30 with the aim of stopping the influx of unlawful medication akin to fentanyl. 

Japan Publish’s resolution falls according to different nationwide postal providers which have quickly suspended their delivery providers to the U.S., together with Britain and Australia. For now, Japan Publish will proceed offering a separate service for deliveries to the U.S. that complies with U.S. customs guidelines, albeit at considerably increased prices.

A current survey on commerce web site Ebay customers discovered that style objects, collector items together with buying and selling playing cards, in addition to auto elements had been among the many Japanese objects that bought effectively within the US, in accordance with a report by Japanese buying and selling group JETRO. 

The identical survey confirmed that greater than 80% of respondents had been contemplating getting into markets aside from the U.S. as a response to American tariff measures.