US Postal Service suspends inbound packages from China amid Trump's global trade war

The U.S. Postal Service volition temporarily suspend accepting inbound parcels from China and Hong Kong amid President Donald Trump's commercialized war.

The change, which went into effect connected Tuesday, volition not interaction the travel of letters and 'flats' from China and Hong Kong, the bureau wrote connected its website.

USPS did not instantly remark connected whether this was tied to Trump's determination to extremity 'de minimis' shipments connected goods valued nether $800 from China and different countries.

The president halted the century-old commercialized instrumentality that allows low-price imports to participate the United States duty-free arsenic portion of his implementation of an further 10 percent tariff connected China and 25 percent tariffs connected goods from Canada and Mexico - though levies connected the second 2 countries person been paused for a month.

Trump's stated extremity was to tackle shipments of fentanyl and its precursor chemicals into the US. 

Nearly fractional of each packages shipped nether 'de minimis' regularisation travel from China, including those from accelerated manner giants Shein and Temu, according to a June 2023 study from a congressional committee connected China.

Trump's determination to extremity the regularisation could present beryllium to beryllium devastating for Shein, Temu and different businesses built connected a 'factory-to-consumer' model, which relies connected keeping costs - and prices - arsenic debased arsenic possible.

But the determination volition payment Amazon, eBay and different large online sellers that dispatch goods from wrong the US having already paid work connected them if imported. 

Michael Sobolik, elder chap astatine the Hudson Institute, told The Telegraph: 'If [Shien and Temu] behave similar astir companies, I wouldn't beryllium amazed if they walk connected the costs. 

'But the existent situation is that their full concern exemplary depends connected however insanely inexpensive these products are.

 'American consumers are going to person to inquire themselves, are they going to beryllium consenting to wage higher prices for these goods?' 

The U.S. Customs and Border Protection bureau processes implicit 1 cardinal de minimis shipments per year, with Shein and Temu unsocial accounting for astir 600,000 packages daily. 

US stocks initially plunged Monday greeting on quality that Trump would present tariffs, but they recovered aft a woody was done with Mexico to hold them by a month. 

Even if the President does not spell up with a afloat scope of tariffs, helium plans to extremity the 'de minimis rule'. 

Meanwhile, designers person hit retired aft Temu and Shein 'copied' their products.

Frustrated artisans person taken to TikTok to exposure however their designs person been 'ripped off' by websites similar Shein, which was founded successful China successful 2008.

Their videos comparison their designs with strikingly akin Shein knock-offs. 

In one, creator Vikki Jones revealed she had sent Temu a cease and desist letter aft the retail elephantine 'stole' her artwork and sold 'hundreds of copies'.

In the clip, the visibly upset 25-year-old says she 'doesn't cognize what to do' aft proceeding of akin incidents that near autarkic sellers warring to get their enactment taken down - with small success. 

The designer, who founded her concern 5 years ago, was near disheartened implicit however galore income the Chinese retailers had made that 'rightfully' belonged to her.