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USPS suspends all packages from China, including e-commerce purchases


The United States Postal Service has temporarily stopped accepting inbound parcels from China and Hong Kong following the US government's decision to end import tax exemptions and to add a 10 percent tariff on Chinese goods.

The United States Postal Service has temporarily stopped accepting inbound parcels from China and Hong Kong, and according to Wired, it's already causing huge problems with e-commerce shipments to the US. If the agency decides to hold all de minimis shipments at the border, that means they may have to process around 3.7 million packages a day to check how much import taxes and other additional fees the receiver or buyer has to pay. In the future, though, China's e-commerce platforms could start adding those fees, along with the 10 percent tariff now required for Chinese goods, to a customer's total amount, making it more expensive to buy from websites like Shein and Temu.

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