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By David Lawder, Helen Reid, Lisa Baertlein and Lisa Barrington
Washington/London/Los Angeles (Reuters)-the US President Donald Trump paused the withdrawal of his administration of tax-free treatment of cheap packages from China on Friday, giving the commerce department time to work the order after the fast Change has created disturbances, for customs inspectors, postal and delivery services and online retailers.
The final cancellation of the minimis means that the more than 1 billion small value e-commerce packages that arrive in the United States every year with goods that come directly from China switch to an access process that requires additional information and tasks, adding time and Costs.
The stop and restart of the acceptance of the Postal Service of those packages of the United States that cause a swarm of disturbances this week that a back -up of the customs explanation for packages – even those tasks – on John F. Kennedy International Airport In New York City, Backups, brought to John F. Kennedy International Airport.
“Well, that was a nice Tuesday to Friday, if you work in the worldwide e-commerce,” said Derek Lossing, CEO of e-commerce and global supply chain company Cirrus Global Advisors.
The first change, implemented with just over 48 hours, ensured that the USPS temporarily stopped accepting packages from China and Hong Kong earlier this week.
Popular online retailers, including the new Haul Service from Shein, Temu and Amazon.com, send packages directly from Chinese factories to American shoppers and use the minimis to keep prices low. Those retailers did not immediately respond to requests for comments.
The revision of the Trump government in the order was signed on Wednesday and published on Friday, said a spokesperson for the White House.
The minimis, a legal term that refers to things of little importance, refers to the American distance from standard customs procedures and rates for items with a value of less than $ 800 that are sent to people from abroad.
Temu and Shein combined the ship around 9,000 tons of freight worldwide every day, or about 88 full Boeing 777 cargo ships, said Niall van de Wouw, Chief Air Freight Officer on Freight Pricing Platform Xeneta.
“You cannot suddenly set up the shutters for this volume of air freight, so it is no surprise that the executive order on the minimis has been a delay.”
Packages are pile up
American customs and border protection, which has the task of screening e-commerce packages and gathering Source, according to a source familiar with the meeting.
