He US postal service (USPS, in English) announced Wednesday to resume the entry of Packages from China and Hong Kongless than 24 hours after suspending the service due to the tariff escalation between the two countries.
“USPS and the Customs and Border Protection Office (CBP) are working closely to implement a efficient mechanism for collection of new tariffs to China and guarantee the least possible interruption in the delivery of packages“The postal service announced in a statement.
This Tuesday the 10% tariffs began to govern all China imports approved by the US president, Donald Trumpthat Beijing responded with its own tariffs between 10 and 15 % to certain products in the United States.
As part of its tariff package to China, Washington also eliminated the commercial exemption known as “minimis”which allowed exporters to send packages of up to $ 800 to the US without tariffs.
This measure promoted the rapid growth of Chinese e -commerce retailers as Shein, Temu and Aliexpress.
The suspension of packages announced on Tuesday and already reversed would have caused significant delays in delivery of these Chinese retailers and also some of Amazon.
In 2024, the United States processed More than 1.3 billion “minimis” shipmentsaccording to official data from the Office of Customs and Border Protection (CBP), a vertiginous growth since the 139 million processed just a decade before, in 2015.
