Japan Post, Good Smile Temporarily Suspend Package Delivery to U.S. Due to Import Tariffs – News

this Japan Post The announcement, effective Wednesday, will temporarily suspend the withdrawal of parcels and delivery from the U.S., worth more than $100 in value and consumer goods, citing recent legislation surrounding import tariffs. Personal items worth less than $100 and small EMS packages will still be accepted for delivery.

Then, Good Smiling Company It will temporarily suspend shipments from its stores to the U.S. starting Thursday, it announced Tuesday.

On July 30, the U.S. government issued an executive order to end the “minimum exemption,” a tax exemption and formal entry requirement that requires import requirements worth less than $800. The law is scheduled to end on August 30. Japan Post The postal service and agency references this transition are lacking in clarity.

It used to be postal pause Due to the 1920 pandemic, the delivery of EMS and the delivery of aerial prints or air prints.

Background of the new US tariffs

President Donald Trump sign An executive order adjusted global tariffs and increased several countries on August 1. The new tariffs will come into effect on August 7.

Trump announced on April 2 that benchmark tariffs on global imports will begin on April 5. He also announced that he claimed to be April 9, and that he would start expropriation of many countries. Vietnam and Cambodia will receive some additional tariff rates at 46% and 49% respectively, while China will receive 24% and 34% and 34% and 34% and 34% and 34% and 34% and 34% respectively. The president then suspended tariffs in almost all countries within a few days, and he continued to raise them to 145% (including those imposed before the current administration), and China responded to its own tariffs reaching 125% of the U.S. tariffs. May 12, the United States and China agree Reduce tariffs for 90 days. The United States has reduced the effective tariff rate on Chinese goods from 145% to 30%, and China has reduced the tariff rate on American goods from 125% to 10%.

this White House A list of tax-free products was released after the announcement on April 2. The list includes “printed books, brochures, flyers and similar printed substances”, where books such as comics and other comic books physically printed in Asia will be exempt from other duties. The U.S. government has since clarified other commodities that will be excluded from these specific tariffs, including steel and aluminum products, automotive and automotive products, certain critical resources, smartphones, computers and various electronic parts. The new U.S. tariffs will also affect toys, numbers and other goods produced in China, Vietnam, Japan and elsewhere in Asia.

The U.S. government pointed out that it can further or lower tariffs depending on how the country responds. The current situation of the new U.S. trade protectionist tariff policy is extremely fluid and turbulent, and changes and clarifications are taking place almost every day.

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