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La poste makes radical decision:
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The announcement of the Post follows that of the German Post. Furthermore, which has taken similar measures by considerably restricting, “temporarily”, the sending of parcels and goods to the United States.
INTERNATIONAL – The trade war initiated by the American president on customs duties with his many. However, business partners already has very real consequences in France. Consequently, And they concern the sending of parcels from France to the United States.
Within the framework of the agreement negotiated between the EU. However, the United States la poste makes radical decision of Donald Trump, a rate of customs duties of 15 % is now in force on the majority of European imports in the United States. Moreover, Including global parcels of merchandise of a value equal to or less than 800 dollars, previously exempt from any customs tax. Similarly, Under these conditions. the La Poste group announced this Friday, August 22, to AFP this Friday, which it was going to suspend on August 25, parcel shipments to the United States.
La Poste said herself ” constraint “ in a press release. “Due to always incomplete technical specifications and terms and the extremely short time to prepare” And this, a few hours after similar measures taken by Deutsche Post, the German Post. The only exception preserved by the French public group at this stage: sending gifts between individuals, worth less than 100 euros.
For his part. The platform la poste makes radical decision Explained on Thursday that the Trump administration’s decision had already reacted a good part of the European postal network. Reason why Postorope. the association which represents the sector at European level, had announced that the postal networks of the old continent could “ restrict or temporarily suspend shipments From some packages to the United States. It is now done in France.
As the newspaper points out. these announcements therefore sign the end of the tax regime, says « minimis » In postal jargon, for small packages. Chronopost “Operates normally” And will therefore not be impacted by this measure, the post office said this Friday.
La poste makes radical decision
“In addition financial cost”
Signed on July 30. this agreement between the United States and the EU under pressure from Donald Trump is still far from clear. What La Poste underlines in its press release. It must be la poste makes radical decision said that the American customs service waited on Friday August 8 to detail the terms of. this new system. However, crucial information is still lacking in the call, explaining La Poste’s reluctance to engage in this new system.
In the columns of The platformBotond Szebeny. secretary general of Postorope, completes by explaining that in addition to the vagueness caused by the absence of clarifications on the calculation and the collection of customs duties, La Poste was likely to end up with a “In addition financial costs that did not exist before”. The cause? The packages of goods less than. equal to 800 dollars have so far represented most of the package shipments in the United States (1.6 million packages per year on average), 80 % of which come from companies and 20 % of individuals.
In addition to the French. German postman network, that of Belgium la poste makes radical decision has decided to temporarily suspend its shipments to America, for the same reasons as these two neighbors. A decision also taken by Austrian post (Austrian Post). Norwegian (Posen Bring), Spanish (Correos) or that of the Suédo-Danois network (Postnord).
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