HongKong Post keeps parcel suspension in place despite U.S. reversal

HongKong Post said precocious connected Thursday it would proceed to suspend postal goods to the United States, contempt the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) having reversed a determination to suspend parcels from China and Hong Kong.

The determination by USPS connected Tuesday to halt accepting parcels from China and Hong Kong had caused chaos and disorder among retailers and explicit shipping firms implicit however to woody with U.S. President Donald Trump’s caller 10 per cent tariff connected imports from China.

Trump’s determination besides included closing the “de minimis” work exemption for packages valued astatine nether $800, with the stated purpose of stopping the travel of fentanyl and precursor chemicals into the United States.

USPS aboriginal reversed the 12-hour suspension aft Trump scrapped an exemption utilized by retailers including Temu, Shein, and Amazon, to vessel low-value packages duty-free to the United States.

China-ruled Hong Kong has besides been subjected to the aforesaid tariffs arsenic China according to a U.S. authorities announcement that stated: “Articles that are the products of China, which hereinafter volition see products of Hong Kong … volition beryllium taxable to the further advertisement valorem complaint of duty.”

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Hong Kong has agelong been known arsenic a escaped and unfastened trading hub, but China’s imposition connected Hong Kong of a sweeping nationalist information instrumentality successful 2020 drew disapproval from the U.S. and led it to extremity the erstwhile British colony’s peculiar presumption nether U.S. law, escalating tensions betwixt China and the U.S.

The U.S. subsequently stipulated that goods made successful Hong Kong for export to the United States needed to beryllium labelled arsenic made successful China, ending 1 of Hong Kong’s longstanding competitory advantages arsenic a trading hub.

The Hong Kong authorities said successful a connection that it “reiterates its beardown disapproval of the United States’ imposition of further work connected products of Hong Kong” and “urges the United States to instrumentality urgent actions to rectify its wrongdoing, truthful arsenic to debar causing disorder and inconvenience to the nationalist owing to its perpetually changing policies.”

—Reporting by Sameer Manekar successful Bengaluru; and Jessie Pang and James Pomfret successful Hong Kong; Editing by Philippa Fletcher and Susan Fenton