European postal services suspend shipment of packages to U.S.

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Multiple postal services astir Europe announced Saturday that they are suspending the shipment of galore packages to the United States amid a deficiency of clarity implicit caller import duties.

Postal services successful Germany, Denmark, Sweden and Italy said they volition halt shipping astir merchandise to the U.S. effectual immediately. France and Austria volition travel Monday, and the United Kingdom Tuesday.

Under a decree signed by President Donald Trump past month, planetary goods that were antecedently exempt from U.S. tariffs — those valued nether $800 — volition beryllium taxable to import duties from Aug. 29. Letters, books, gifts and tiny parcels worthy little than $100 volition proceed to beryllium exempt.

A commercialized model agreed by the U.S. and the European Union past period set a 15% tariff connected the immense bulk of products shipped from the EU.

Many European postal services accidental they are pausing deliveries present due to the fact that they cannot warrant the goods volition participate the U.S. earlier Aug. 29. They mention ambiguity astir what benignant of goods are covered by the caller rules, and the deficiency of clip to process their implications.

Starting Saturday, Deutsche Post and DHL Parcel Germany said they "will nary longer beryllium capable to judge and transport parcels and postal items containing goods from concern customers destined for the US."

Postnord, the Nordic logistics company, and Italy's postal work announced akin suspensions effectual Saturday.

"In the lack of antithetic instructions from US authorities ... Poste Italiane volition beryllium forced, similar different European postal operators, to temporarily suspend acceptance of each shipments containing goods destined for the United States, starting August 23. Mail shipments not containing merchandise volition proceed to beryllium accepted," Poste Italiane said Friday.

Shipping by services specified arsenic DHL Express remains possible, it added.

Björn Bergman, caput of PostNord's Group Brand and Communication, said the intermission was "unfortunate but indispensable to guarantee afloat compliance of the recently implemented rules."

In the Netherlands, PostNL spokesperson Wout Witteveen said the Trump medication is pressing up with the caller duties contempt U.S. authorities lacking a strategy to cod them. He said that PostNL is moving intimately with its U.S. counterparts to find a solution.

"If you person thing to nonstop to America, you should bash it today," Witteveen told The Associated Press.

Austrian Post, Austria's starring logistics and postal work provider, stated that the past acceptance of commercialized shipments to the U.S., including Puerto Rico, volition instrumentality spot Tuesday.

France's nationalist postal service, La Poste, said the U.S. did not supply afloat details oregon let capable clip for the French postal work to hole for caller customs procedures.

"Despite discussions with U.S. customs services, nary clip was provided to postal operators to re-organize and guarantee the indispensable machine updates to conform to the caller rules," it said successful a statement.

The UK's Royal Mail said it would halt U.S. shipments connected Tuesday "to let clip for those packages to get earlier duties footwear in." Items originating successful the U.K. volition necessitate a 10% work for items implicit $100, it said.

PostEurop, an relation of 51 European nationalist postal operators, said that if nary solution tin beryllium recovered by Aug. 29 each its members volition apt travel suit.

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