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PostEurope informs that more of its members may be forced to, temporarily, suspend the shipping of goods via the postal network to the USA. https://www.posteurop.org/blog/u-s-...august-2025/Quote:
PostEurop and its Members are closely following the developments around the U.S. Executive Order "Suspending duty-free de minimis treatment for all countries" on postal goods shipped to the USA. PostEurop members are working very hard on solutions to ensure that postal goods shipping to the USA can continue for both business and private customers, considering also the importance of guaranteeing the Universal Postal Service.
The new regulations, which follow a different approach from those provided globally by the Universal Postal Union, are set to take effect on 29 August 2025. This measure will significantly affect all postal companies worldwide and their customers sending shipments through postal networks to the United States Postal Service (USPS). Currently, low value goods and gifts can be imported into the USA duty-free from other countries due to a de minimis customs threshold of $800. However, the changes mean that on all goods imported into the USA duties should be paid to U.S. Customs, regardless of their country of origin.
Critical issues and processes, such as customs duties collection, the data to be collected, and the interaction with the U.S. Customs and Border Protection, are not yet clearly defined. Select technical details were only released on 15 August, leaving an extremely short timeframe to prepare.
At this time, if critical issues and processes are not defined and, thus, compliant solutions cannot be found before the regulations take effect on 29 August 2025, PostEurop Members, in alignment with the competent National Authorities, may be constrained to temporarily restrict or suspend the shipping of goods via the postal networks to the USA. |
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 Last couple of items I sold on eBat to US buyers- they used some kind of weird forwarding business rather than GSP. |
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What is the source of that information? Is it information from Royal Mail or ebay? It is similar to information found here, but remains unclear and impracticable. I expect European postal authorities will not want to be a tax collector for the US and refuse to ship to the USA, or ship and let the recipient deal with it. |
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So… any stamps manufactured in the USA and sold by a UK vendor to an American collector are subject to a country-based tariff of 0%? |
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It looks like it. The question, then is, whether a 1 cent stamp that costs GBP 100 has 1 cent US value and almost GBP 100 added value in the UK.
And is a South-American stamp printed by the American Banknote Co South-American, USA, or whatever? As posted in another thread, what happens with a WW lot?
Customs declarations served to help the customs service in the receiving country to levy import duties. They are not intended for Royal Mail to calculate how much duties they should collect. Will Royal Mail collect them? |
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We do not have post offices. Counters in shops process parcels. They provide you with customs forms. I cannot see the girls at my local supermarket collect duties for PostNL, so PostNL will transfer the amount to the USA. I expect that would result in those retailers refusing parcels for US addresses and tell customers to contact PostNL. |
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Easy one. Verdis merch is made in China. Go figure that Quote:
A small country in Southeast Europe dedicated to democratic values, reconciliation of ethnic groups, modernisation, the environment, and many more goals. would have their products made by Uyghurs in a polluted communist Country. Can't make this stuff up.  |
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So much for the promised future of the global economy brought by the interconnections possible through the internet. Tariffs were never meant to be a blanket tax on everything one imports into a country - they might be good for protecting industries that simply can't compete on the global market in comparison to lower cost producers overseas (though I, as a free trader, very much dispute this due to the impact it has on consumers in an economy where consumption is 70% or so of GDP), but what American jobs are being protected by taxing a purchase of postage stamps from (insert foreign contry here) bought by an American consumer, especially from a small business in another country. Stamp Collectors in the USA are gonna be screwed by this, either buy from American dealers (if they have the material you want, which very often they do not) or pay 15-50% tariffs to get the stamps you want for your collection if you buy from overseas. Also screwed are small overseas independent stamp retailers who do not have a presence on ebay or delcampe or hipstamp who are now going to have to either figure out how to collect the tariffs the US govt wants THEM to collect on its behalf and remit to them, or not charge it and then the US customer faces the risk of a penalty being applied for the tariff not being paid in advance at the time of purchase from the overseas dealer. I mean, why should any small-scale business overseas have to spend time and resources to be the tariff/tax collector for the USA?? I can see many small businesses, and not just in stamp dealing, deciding the bureaucracy is not worth the headache to deal with USA-based customers. We already have seen this happen on Delcampe when various US states decided to be ultra-aggressive in their reading of the Wayfair Supreme Court ruling demanding Delcampe collect sales taxes on their behalf. Delcampe decided to just block US customers and dealers from those states from conducting business on their platform. This will probably get extended further, and I would not be surprised if Delcampe just blocks all US transactions in the near future. |
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Says "The country of origin of goods must be listed for every product contained within the package." This might take me a minute filling out the form for a set of full unlabeled worldwide stamp albums! |
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South Korea's turn? https://en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN20250821010200315Quote:
Postal service to halt U.S. shipments over tariff exemption removal
SEOUL, Aug. 21 (Yonhap) -- The national postal service said Thursday it will stop accepting packages bound for the United States starting next week in line with a U.S. suspension of a duty-free policy for international shipments.
The move comes as the U.S. is set to end the so-called de minimis exemption, under which low-cost parcels from overseas valued at US$800 or less can be shipped to the country without tariffs. All international shipments will face a 15 percent tariff starting Aug. 29.
The postal service will stop receiving U.S.-bound air freight packages starting Monday and all parcels shipped via the Express Mail Service (EMS) starting Tuesday. The move does not affect shipments of documents and correspondence.
Customers will still be able to send packages to the U.S. via the premium EMS service, which imposes tariffs on the recipient.
The postal service vowed to draw up measures to minimize customer inconvenience and urged people planning to send parcels to the U.S. to thoroughly prepare necessary shipping documents.
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Austria too... https://www.reuters.com/world/austr...-2025-08-21/Quote:
Austrian postal group joins European peers in halting parcel shipments to US
FRANKURT, Aug 21 (Reuters) - Austrian Post on Thursday joined other European postal services groups in stopping standard parcel shipments to the United States as U.S. customs services are set to charge duties for low-value packages.
The Austrian state-controlled group said in a statement it would no longer take consignments for U.S.-bound standard parcels from next Tuesday.
U.S. President Donald Trump's administration said last month it would suspend the global "de minimis" exemption, which also allows minimal paperwork, for international shipments under $800, effective August 29.
Earlier this week, several postal groups in Scandinavia and Belgium paused parcel shipments to the United States.
Austrian Post cited both the scrapping of the "de minimis" exemption as well as uncertainty over future U.S. postal customs clearance as reasons for its move.
"This tightening poses major challenges for all postal companies worldwide when sending goods to the USA," it said.
The company added that it would continue to send gifts worth less than $100 to the United States via standard parcel and that the suspension would also not apply to its premium service Post Express International.
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