The New Zealand post temporarily suspended postal deliveries to the United States, the government announced on Saturday, invoking the confusion caused by customs duties imposed by President Donald Trump.
The New Zealand post said that it had temporarily suspended its August 21 services before the 15% rate imposed by the United States on August 29. Only a limited number of important letters and documents, such as passports or legal letters, in the United States, said a statement on the website of the bearer will be delivered.
The New Zealand post said it worked to make changes in its “quickly” service in the hope of resuming deliveries “as soon as possible.”
France, Germany or Spain have already suspended deliveries
Many countries have already announced to suspend their deliveries to the United States. In France, the post said it was “forced” to make this suspension in a press release “, due to always incomplete specifications and technical methods and the extremely short time to prepare.”
“By way of examples, Bpost (Belgian post), mails (Spanish post), Postnord (the Swedo-Danois network), Deutsche Post (Post German), or even post post Austria (Post Austria) have already announced the interruption of postal packages to the United States,” said the post in its press release.
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, therefore, will tax postal deliveries, with a value of less than $ 800, at the same level as other EU products, 15%, according to the trade agreement concluded at the end of July.
The United States began to impose customs tariffs in April, but most of them enter into force until August after months of negotiations.
Source: BFM TV
