Postal traffic for us fell 80% after the Trump administration stopped the exemption in low value plots

Postal traffic in the United States immersed more than 80% after the Trump administration ended a tariff exemption For low -cost imports, the United Nations postal agency said on Saturday.

The Universal Postal Union says that it has begun to implement new measures that can help postal operators around the world to calculate and collect tasks, or taxes, after the United States eliminated the so -called “minimis exemption” for less value plots.

Eighty -eight postal operators have told the UPU that they have suspended some or all postal services to the United States until a solution is implemented with respect to plots to the US. UU. Valued at $ 800 or less, which had been the limit of imported goods to escape customs charges.

“The global network saw postal traffic to the US.

The UPU said that the information exchanged between postal operators through its electronic network showed the traffic of its 192 member countries, almost all the countries of the world, had fallen 81% on August 29, compared to a previous week.

The agency based in Bern, Switzerland, said that the “main operational interruptions” have occurred because airlines and other carriers indicated that they were not willing or could collect such duties, and foreign postal operators had not established a link with the qualified companies for CBP.

The number of low value plots entering the US. UU. It has shot in the last decade. Between 2015 and 2025, that figure increased from 134 million shipments per year to approximately 1.4 billion. Customs and border protection of the United States were processing more than 4 million shipments of “minimis” to the USA daily, said the White House.

Before the measure entered into force, the postal union sent a letter to the Secretary of State of the United States, Marco Rubio, to express its concern for its impact.

He Minimis provision It was added to the tariff law of 1930 several years after the law was approved. It was designed to facilitate trade eliminating the administrative load of collecting modest import positions in low -cost goods.

Purchases that previously entered the US.

While the change applies to the products of each country, US residents will not have to pay the tasks of incoming gifts valued at up to $ 100, or up to $ 200 in personal memories of trips abroad, according to the White House.

UPU said that its members had not given enough time or guidance to comply with the procedures described in the Executive Order, President Trump signed in July 30 To eliminate tax free elbilities of low value goods.

• United States Postal Service
• Trump administration