The post will suspend plots to the United States on August 25, apart from sending gifts between people with less than 100 euros, due to the recent hardening of US customs rules, the French public group announced on Friday. The post said it was “limited” in a press release “, due to always incomplete specifications and technical methods and the extremely short time to prepare.”
This announcement occurs a few hours after the German post took similar measures, restricting considerably, “temporarily”, sending packages and goods to the United States. Other European national positions have taken the same fold:
Postorop, which brings together the 51 European postal actors in charge of the Universal Universal Service, had alerted August 19 in a press release on this risk of suspension at European level.
The Chronopost service will not be affected by the measurement
The post sends 1.6 million packages per year on average, 80% come from companies and 20% of people. Chronopost “works normally” and, therefore, will not be affected by this measure, said the post.
At the end of July, the Trump administration announced that ending the exemption of taxes in small packages that enter the United States from August 29. Washington taxes on postal deliveries, worth less than $ 800, at the same level as other European Union products, 15%, according to the trade agreement concluded at the end of July.
Source: BFM TV
