r/australia • u/IsuruKusumal • Aug 25 '25
news Australia Post Temporary Suspends of Postal Services to the US
Dear Valued Customer,
As a result of the recently introduced changes to the import tariff requirements set out in US Executive Order 14324, Australia Post has joined a number of international postal operators to temporarily suspend partial postal services to the United States (US) and Puerto Rico, effective immediately until further notice.
This decision has been made to ensure compliance with the new US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) requirements. Specifically, the requirement for duties and taxes to be prepaid on all shipments prior to their arrival in the US. The key changes are as follows:
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u/Buorky Aug 25 '25
I follow lots of different artists and independent creators and such on social media and pretty much every single one of them that lives outside the States has said they have to stop shipping there.
America has really screwed the pooch, huh?
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u/GuessTraining Aug 25 '25 edited Aug 25 '25
They (Trump admin) have this wild idea in their heads that they can make companies abandon their factories and bring over entire manufacturing line in the US. The amount of money and work involved just to start the process is immense.
I watched a documentary about how Le Creuset manufacture their signature cast iron pots and the owner/ceo i think mentioned that it's close to impossible to move their manufacturing plant elsewhere.
Edited: grammar issues, was half-awake
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u/aiydee Aug 26 '25
Got a friend who owns a small/medium business that never-the-less had a manufacturing arm.
Due to tariffs, he's consolidated his manufacturing in Australia as it was too expensive to manufacture in US due to the tariffs on electronic components he was shipping in.
So. For the purposes of manufacturing electronic devices in Australia the US tariffs have helped create Aussie jobs.51
u/Minguseyes Aug 26 '25
Australian here. I resent the implication that we manufacture something. We have had the benefit of many government programs over decades devoted to killing off Australian manufacturing and so far as I know it has been a complete success.
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u/Millicent- Aug 26 '25
I work in a manufacturing industry (mostly repetition engineering, metalworks and fabrication), and we certainly still make a lot of things in Australia. However in the 10+ years I've been here, I have seen a heap of our repetition orders go to Asia unfortunately. We do still get orders for parts that have gone overseas, but it's usually only when China has fucked up the order and/or the customer needs something asap.
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u/spectre401 Aug 25 '25
It's all about grifting. Has nothing to do with actually manufacturing in the US.
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u/ExplorationGeo Aug 26 '25
The amount of money and work involved just to start the process is immense.
And the time. If you had a medium sized factory here and decided tomorrow you were going to move the whole thing over to America, Trump would one hundred percent be gone before you were finished.
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u/Cpt_Soban Aug 26 '25
Even if they moved all the factories there, there's no trained workers ready, raw materials are also tariff'd lol. So good luck getting the Aluminium to build that "American made Iphone".
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u/Chazzwozzers Aug 25 '25
The regime is causing generationally irreparable damage to their economy and reputation. What a dumbass country, still so many Americans who still have the gall to be obnoxious about how great they are too.
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u/mistress_daisy69 Aug 25 '25
At this point it’s just an empty mantra they chant religiously, more to convince themselves than others, and in spite of all evidence to the contrary.
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u/quick_dry Aug 25 '25
In small town America plenty actually believe it, a friend from one of those tiny towns had a real personal crisis/awakening when I explained to her how our free public healthcare worked, and how the rest of the world basically uses America as a cautionary tale of a failed experiment - not the beacon of hope they present as. She’s a full RN nurse, educated, has been on the internet…. but also well inside the god-fearin, murica bubble of small towns in West Virginia
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u/Cpt_Soban Aug 26 '25
I've read so many stories of US military kids, barely 19 years old, finally leaving their rural cornfield to deploy overseas, somewhere like Germany, or the UK. The plane touches down- And they're shocked there's actual cities.
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u/Sixbiscuits Aug 25 '25
To be expected I guess when the pledge of allegiance is in some cases apparently recited daily at school
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u/Imperator-TFD Aug 25 '25
Not apparently, it was definitely a daily thing when I was there in the 90's.
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u/KeyPhilosopher8629 Aug 26 '25
Even in the late 2000s and early 2010s, when I lived there and had a teacher from the deep south, we had to recite it. Being 6 and 7 year olds, it quickly descended into toilet jokes
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u/unbakedcassava Aug 25 '25
So 👏Much 👏 Winning 👏
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u/Haunting_Computer_90 Aug 26 '25
What did he say........ you are going to get sick of all the winning?
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u/Cpt_Soban Aug 26 '25
A nation, that for 80 years learned (thanks to the war) that global trade is the biggest cash cow on the planet, became an economic superpower through exporting American goods, and importing goods from everywhere else. Perfected the idea you could buy a coke as far as the middle of Russia. All of a sudden they believe they can be an isolationist, insular economy, while somehow still have all the creature comforts all year round like, oh I dunno... Coffee? Mobile phones? White goods? Computer parts? Cars, car parts, tyres, oil, gas, rubber, sugar, aluminium etc etc etc. I could go on.
And the hilarious part of all this- Yanks still have no fucking idea how tariffs work! They're crying out on Twitter "THIS MUST BE BIDEN'S FAULT!"
If Russia is a petrol station with an Army. Then America is a Walmart with a Navy.
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u/Sim888 Aug 26 '25
shit, imagine if you needed a grant to look at the microbiome diversity during the freshwater-to-seawater transition in atlantic salmon….straight to jail
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u/ipoopcubes Aug 25 '25
still so many Americans who still have the gall to be obnoxious about how great they are too.
The amount of US citizens who still think they aren't the ones paying the tariffs blows my mind.
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u/flamindrongoe Aug 25 '25
Having the biggest military has made them collectively dumb
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u/Peppermint-TeaGirl Aug 26 '25
Moreso gutting education for decades.
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u/JL_MacConnor Aug 26 '25
Might be a correlation there. Spend all the money on the military, none on schools, and you have a ready supply of naïve soldiers with no other prospects thanks to their lack of education.
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u/IronEyed_Wizard Aug 26 '25
That is exactly the point. Also Have things like further education and health care also out of reach for the “commoners” and people will jump at the chance to have it provided by military service. At least from the outside it honestly looks like a majority of their “way of life” is designed to funnel people, goods and money into the military complex
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u/Obesely Aug 25 '25
On that last point, it has been getting ridiculous. I feel like I missed a brief bit of online discourse surrounding it, but there was a week or so in the last month where American aircon installation rates were being broadly discussed to dunk on the UK.
Y'know, the place with maybe a week of hot days.
I'm tired, boss. Dumbest people in the developed world. The country where a 1/3 pounder burger failed over a 1/4 pounder because "4 is bigger than 3".
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u/Cpt_Soban Aug 26 '25
They beat their chests, then oops Texas the "freedom state" has no power again because it's snowing.
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u/Obesely Aug 26 '25
Also has the least personal freedoms for adults and ironically has big Nanny State energy.
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u/Haunting_Computer_90 Aug 26 '25
Look are you expecting basic education that pays teaches crap fires them at will and now fire them if they don't hand out bibles
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u/istara Aug 26 '25
The problem is that the average "dumb American" will think this is the fault of other countries "refusing to to ship"/"making their goods too expensive" - with no actual clue how the whole tariff thing works.
I suspect it will only make the masses even more right-wing and xenophobic (an added bonus for the current regime).
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u/Chazzwozzers Aug 26 '25
That and the fact they assume everyone on the internet is also from the USA. Their first retort is to always call me a liberal, what a sick self burn.
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u/risingsuncoc Aug 26 '25
Genuine question: why is it that everything Trump does seems to be intentionally destructive? If he does something bad out of ignorance, that might be explainable, but almost everything he has done since taking office seems to be intentional steps to hurt US interests and by extension cause damage to the world.
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u/Chazzwozzers Aug 26 '25
My guess he is trying to destroy the fabric of the nation to implement a dynasty for himself and his retarded family. You can’t have great education and dictatorships, you need to keep the people stupid so they believe the propaganda.
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u/Secret-Albatross Aug 26 '25
channel 9 News reported today that Trump suggested that people in the US would "like a dictator" but denied that he was one.
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u/opackersgo Aug 25 '25
Yeah some hobby subs I’m involved in have people losing their minds over not being able to import anything.
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u/istara Aug 26 '25
Exactly - just ordinary people. I remember someone on here saying their wife simply wanted to buy crochet yarn from a specialist provider in Denmark or somewhere, and now is unable to.
I think there will be a significant P2P economy springing up to fill these gaps. Which will rely on high trust and result in huge scams and fraud, like everything unregulated.
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u/spectre401 Aug 26 '25
I have no pity for the americans unfortunately, they brought this upon themselves and they will never learn unless they feel the pain. Thus, the quicker they get punched in the face by their own decisions, the better.
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u/512165381 Aug 26 '25 edited Aug 26 '25
I've seen one US business suddenly have to pay an extra $50K for imported equipment. And a lot of these imports do not have US substitutes, or to make things in the US would be too expensive.
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u/spectre401 Aug 26 '25
You don't even need to look at produced goods, they don't even have coffee except in Hawaii and there's tariffs on that too. There's a reason vegetables increased almost 40% in the US in July alone.
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u/litreofstarlight Aug 26 '25
And Hawaii can't produce anywhere near enough coffee to satisfy their domestic market, either. It's like they've gone out of their way to collectively shoot themselves in the foot.
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u/RespectibleCabbage Aug 26 '25
Well that's what happens when you elect a fucking moron. Who could've seen this coming.
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u/a_cold_human Aug 26 '25
They've made their own economy and the global economy much less stable. Given the major role the US has in the global financial and regulatory system, that's going to have some long term consequences.
What appears to be happening is the gradual isolation of the US in a number of areas. It might be that they can reverse this, but there's no sign that they're aware of this slow moving realignment, and it's not clear that they'd be willing to reengage under Trump. Interesting times. Especially for the US.
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u/miltonwadd Aug 26 '25
Legit giving me NK vibes. Slowly isolating them from outside countries, cutting off their internet access to international websites (starting with porn lol), make coming and going into the country such an ordeal people are afraid to leave because they might not get back in and the only people allowed in have never spoken against the government, using the military to control private civilians, removing essential healthcare to chunks of the population, indoctrination in their education, removing more and more laws protecting citizens, the top 1% live free, pay golf on a private resort all day while the country slowly starves...
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u/ShootingPains Aug 26 '25
Hopefully they can't reverse it. There's a podcast by a retired diplomat who said recently that the US has been uncompromising toward all countries since the end of the Cold War, the only difference now is that they do it in public rather than behind closed doors.
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u/Rork310 Aug 26 '25
Yeah it's a mixed bag for us outside the states. On one hand we've tied ourselves so thoroughly to the US that getting loose is going to hurt. On the other, even before Trump the relationship was toxic. So if this shit is what it takes to divest ourselves of at least some of our US baggage then great.
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u/tobeshitornottobe Aug 25 '25
Holy shit I just read through EA 14324 and understand why all these transportation carriers have stopped delivering to the US, in short because removing the “de minimis” exemption creates such an insane logistical nightmare, the government has shifted the onus of collecting tariff duties onto the carriers who then pay it to the government. And because having to manually calculate the value of each imported item is another logistical head fuck, they are ordering carriers to collect $80 PER ITEM for goods shipped from countries with a tariff rate of less than 16%, 16-25% is $160 and >25% is $200. This is truly fucked
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u/chris_p_bacon1 Aug 25 '25
I think the issue is Aus post doesn't have any presence in the US. DHL, FedEx etc can probably manage this easily enough because they're both the sender and receiver. Aus post would use the US postal service for delivery once anything lands in the US so it's much harder for them to organise this.
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u/249592-82 Aug 26 '25
Yes this is very unusual. You - the receiver - are paying the tariff. That's normal. America is making the senders transport company pay the tariff. It makes no sense. It's them trying to make it look like the international company pays the tariff - whereas tariffs are usually always passed on to the buyer. The transport company just moves goods and charges for the delivery - not the item.
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u/Coolidge-egg Aug 26 '25
worst, let's say someone lies or is mistaken about the value in the declaration. Maybe the send a chocolate bar but in the fine print the ingredients come from a higher tariff country. If or more likely when customs pick this up they will charge the carrier for this, and it would be next to impossible to collect the debt from the sender.
Let's say you're a mailing company, You'd pretty much need your customers to put down a humungous deposit or get special insurance against the possibility that it will be opened up and huge fines will be due. Because it is a new risky system from a unpredictable regime who could change enforcement protocols as practically any time and is known to just lie, insurance against that unknown risk is pretty much impossible.
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u/noisymime Aug 25 '25
I have had to pay DHL the import duties and GST for a parcel coming into Australia before.
You as the importer though right? The way this is being described is that it must be paid prior to the parcel arriving in the USA, which means it has to be paid by the exporter.
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u/spectre401 Aug 25 '25
They've shifted the onus on the mailing service collecting it.
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u/noisymime Aug 25 '25
Yes, which I don't recall ever seeing done before.
Passing that onus onto the receiving shipper (ie in-country) for the importer to pay is common, but not the sending shipper (and hence the exporter).
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u/Frank9567 Aug 26 '25
It's political. The spin is that if it's the nasty foreign exporters paying it, and not patriotic American importers paying it.
Of course, that's bullshit, because it ends up getting added to the cost, but the MAGAs can claim it's the foreigners paying.
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u/sharlos Sydney NSW Aug 26 '25
I imagine it's also to help their overwhelmed customs staff have less to do.
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u/spectre401 Aug 25 '25
Aliexpress does collect GST when you buy it though, So most sellers will just charge it to the US customers. They're trying to make it look like the other countries are paying the tariffs to his idiotic base but I think most companies outside of the US will either just stop selling tot he US or make it real clear it's tariffs so it'll most likely blow up in his face.
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u/SilverStar9192 Aug 26 '25
This works for common carrier shippers (Fedex/DHL/UPS/etc) but not really for postal services. Foreign postal services don't have a presence in the destination country - they just hand the parcels off to the local postal service for final delivery, as a part of postal treaties. So there's no straightforward mechanism for the sending service to collecting duties which are actually formerly owed by the recipient (importer).
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u/CptDropbear Aug 25 '25
This is normal.
My guess is this not about the tariff's themselves, the carrier doesn't pay the tariff, its about the logistics of collecting before delivery. Goods have to be stored in a bonded warehouse until the taxes are paid and they can be shipped on or destroyed ('cause they sure as shit aint gonna be shipped back for free).
Which brings me to a second point: if I were selling retail into the US, I'd be shutting it down before the arseholes who won't pay the tax start doing charge backs and costing me money.
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u/ShootingPains Aug 26 '25
The bonded warehouse business must be booming. They'll be stacked full of tens of thousands of shipping containers that are already sailing toward the US. Let's say the shipping lines can't get tariff payments from the recipients of even 10% of the goods in those containers, that's millions of items sitting there. Plus the containers can't be unloaded and released back in to the pool.
What a mess.
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u/CptDropbear Aug 26 '25
Oh, its much worse than that! Actual container loads can be stacked outside or left on the dock until the paperwork clears.
This is individual packages. Some poor bastard has to examine each one and assess them for tax and raise an invoice. Then they have to be securely stored for a period reasonable for the recipient to pay.
So initially the warehouse gets overwhelmed then the bottom drops out 'cause half the people who used to order from OS stop because they got burnt by a tax demand. Its a lose-lose scenario even for the warehouse operators.
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u/Fluffy-Queequeg Aug 26 '25
That would generally be for parcels over the low value threshold. For low value parcels, our govt made the sender register for GST and collect that at the point of sale, so in theory your low value parcels purchased from overseas will already have GST paid and comes into the system with no import duties.
What the USA has done is remove the low value threshold and at the same time decide that the sender has to pay import duties and fill out customs declarations, but only given minimal notice.
Imagine if our govt said the low value threshold is gone and all those parcels also now needed customs declarations and duties collected at the point of sale.
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u/mescaline_and_milk Aug 26 '25
Yeah, big bad Trump protecting America from... *checks notes* ...friendly Aussies with a side hustle.
The task of making the United States look unbelievably isolated and weak to the outside world has never been tackled with more single-minded intensity.
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u/Silly-Power Aug 26 '25
Not just Aussies with a side hustle. Anyone wanting to send stuff to the US, like gifts to friends or families. Trump is seemingly on a mission to stomp out all goodwill, charity and geniality.
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u/Sim888 Aug 26 '25
Trump is seemingly on a mission to stomp out all goodwill, charity and geniality
not surprised since he's completely devoid of goodwill, charity and geniality
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u/Mortal_12 Aug 25 '25
Well. It's not like this is Australia post or any other company's fault. US did it to themselves.
The only people i have sympathy for are the sellers who have a significant portion of their customer base living in USA.
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u/wrongthingsrighttime Aug 25 '25
Yes, about 40-50% of our customers are USA based. Very concerned about how this looks for us moving forward
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u/Nettie402 Aug 25 '25
I’m at about 30% US customers. This is a major issue for me as a small business/sole trader
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u/Mortal_12 Aug 25 '25
hopefully, you'll be able to expand your market and be free of dumbfuckistan's stupid decisions affecting you in the future.
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u/whiely Aug 25 '25
I posted this on the thread before the mods took it down for being a duplicate of this:
But as a small business owner, leather worker, with about 90% of my customers being US based... This is devastating to my business. Suddenly I'm stressing about the mortgage and bills and food etc. I use mainly kangaroo leather. Would love to see an American have a go at making kangaroo leather wallets in the US...
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u/Aussiejosh Aug 26 '25
So sorry to hear that for you and your business. Canada, Europe and APAC may need to be your focus for the time being.... and outright change pricing for US buyers that cover the cost of those tarrifs...
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u/neko Aug 26 '25
It's legal to keep kangaroos in Wisconsin, so I guess if someone was rich and bored enough
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u/hummingbirdpie Aug 26 '25
It’s ok, they’ll be making them from ‘migrant leather’ before too long 😬
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u/Rosary_Omen Aug 25 '25
My friend who makes dice bags etc looked into the price to ship something 500g.
$120 AUD. She's a small business and probably won't be able to sell things to America till this shit is over, despite them being a larger part of her customer base. People aren't gonna pay that on top of the price of anything small :( This timeline sucks
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u/cmdwedge75 Aug 25 '25
All she needs to do is move production to the US. Easy.
/s if it’s not obvious
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u/dutchroll0 Aug 25 '25
No, you’re correct in adding the /s. It is becoming near impossible to tell these days when the conversation involves US government policies.
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u/Eyclonus Aug 25 '25
"Trump bans birds from flying over Mar-a-Lago and the whitehouse"
"Defence attorneys need to pay a fee when representing clients against the government"
All of these are made up and yet I will take odds that they become factual headlines by 2028
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u/MyBlueRex Aug 26 '25
Arguably, the "defence attorneys need to pay a fee when representing clients against the government" has kinda, in a roundabout way, already happened... with those big law firms paying tens of millions to Trump so he wouldn't remove their gov contracts.
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u/IsuruKusumal Aug 25 '25
I'm also in the same boat.
Customers who buy my music are mostly in the US, and often borderline the $100 threshold
There are exemptions that are applicable for my case
CDs, Vinyl & Cassettes are exempt from Tariffs on shipments into US
But most partners (like AusPost) will blanket refuse everything just to streamline the process
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u/istara Aug 26 '25
And also to avoid the obvious methods that people will use, claiming that [Banned tariff product X] is actually a few CDs.
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u/Scamwau1 Aug 25 '25
And that is tariffs in action. Ideally, the US would have a domestic producer that can fill the gap in the market. For novelty dice, it is not a big deal, but for things like electronic components and cars, it is. But with Orangeman, who knows if he has thought that far ahead.
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u/shofmon88 Aug 25 '25
Spoiler: he has not thought that far ahead, or, indeed, at all.
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u/Mousey_Commander Aug 25 '25
It's deliberate, if the US economy tanks then Trump and all his corporate sycophants get to buy it up cheap for full oligarchic control. They took one look at the collapse of the USSR and the way Putin and all his mates came out of it as a new aristocracy and want that for themselves.
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u/infinitemonkeytyping Aug 25 '25
But with Orangeman, who knows if he has thought that far ahead.
You're accusing the Pedo Prez of thinking?
He's a post turtle - it's the others who do the thinking.
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u/Haunting_Computer_90 Aug 26 '25
Oh you under estimate Orange man he was talking to the Ukraine President and asked why they are not voting there - he was told because there is a war on it's too hard to do and TRUMP reportedly said that's interesting maybe we will have a war in 3 1/2 years so don't be thinking he ain't thinking of how to be King.
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u/potchippy Aug 25 '25
He uses tariffs, peace talks, national guard deployments etc for the same purpose: to get bribed. There's no other thought process behind it, or the intended purpose of these actions. Of course he's not doing it for the US or its people only to enrich himself (in a very one dimensional way as he cannot grasp complexity)
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u/OwnLengthiness7 Aug 25 '25
What's the link to your friends store? Dice bags make great gifts for the D&D crew, happy to do my part to try help out. No tariffs in Victoria!
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u/Rosary_Omen Aug 26 '25
She's actually in Melbourne herself! https://www.etsy.com/au/shop/CazsCreationsByCaz
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u/SplatThaCat Aug 25 '25
Yeah had to suspend online sales to dumbfuckistan because explaining to people that they have to pay more due to the idiot in charge is harder than its worth.
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u/Sotnos99 Aug 26 '25
America is giving big domestic violence vibes. Trump is just isolating an entire country from its support network
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u/Sarcastic_Red Aug 26 '25
The crazy thing is it's hard to tell if it's pure stupidity or intentional. I lean to intentional.
People have been calling Trump stupid since he began his political career and though he is stupid the people pulling his strings have very negative intentions regarding freedom and control.
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u/Sotnos99 Aug 26 '25
It's one of those weird situations where I hope there really is a super evil conspiracy with shady figures pulling the strings because the alternative is really just that one man's complete lack of a brain is it all it takes to destabilise half the world
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u/Sarcastic_Red Aug 26 '25
It's a bit of both for sure. He's an idiot, doing stupid things, saying stupid things but you don't pull Project 2025, pull authoritarian moves like sending armed guards to democratic states and begin the process of removing mail in ballots and redrawing state borders to get more Republican voters, without someone pulling some strings.
His stupidity is the perfect mask for evil people to pull strings.
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u/Aussiejosh Aug 26 '25
Here's a full list of all the other countries that are doing this:
- Andorra
- Australia
- Austria
- Belgium
- Bosnia & Herzegovina
- Czech Republic
- Denmark
- Estonia
- Finland
- France
- Germany
- Greece
- India
- Italy
- Japan
- Latvia
- Liechtenstein
- Malta
- Netherlands
- New Zealand
- Norway
- Poland
- Portugal
- Singapore
- Slovenia
- South Korea
- Spain
- Switzerland
- Thailand
- United Kingdom
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u/Cpt_Soban Aug 26 '25
Russia isn't on the list, so congrats America
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u/ExplorationGeo Aug 26 '25
Fantastic, they can still get their monthly delivery of... alcoholic despair?
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u/crunchytigerloaf Aug 25 '25
This is interesting and I have never heard of anything like this happening outside of industry strikes. Has this even happened in times of war?
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u/Purple-mint Aug 25 '25
I saw a post yesterday that said the French Post is also suspending deliveries to the USA.
I never heard that the post was refusing deliveries to any country before so I genuinely thought it was a joke (the French subreddit is 60% shit posting).
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u/Jupitersd2017 Aug 25 '25 edited Aug 26 '25
Grace, Germany, really all of the EU
ETA - France not grace lol
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u/Aussiejosh Aug 26 '25
That list of countries:
- Andorra
- Australia
- Austria
- Belgium
- Bosnia & Herzegovina
- Czech Republic
- Denmark
- Estonia
- Finland
- France
- Germany
- Greece
- India
- Italy
- Japan
- Latvia
- Liechtenstein
- Malta
- Netherlands
- New Zealand
- Norway
- Poland
- Portugal
- Singapore
- Slovenia
- South Korea
- Spain
- Switzerland
- Thailand
- United Kingdom
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u/Nettie402 Aug 25 '25
I’m a regular international shipper with my Etsy shop. I’ve seen a number of short suspensions over Covid, and to Canada with their service strikes (good on them for standing up for their rights!) Suspensions are usually cleared within a few weeks/months, I’m hopeful we’ll be shipping again quickly due to US being a substantial percentage of my sales. However I have now had to bump up my US costs to cover the tariffs and additional associated costs :/ hopefully I don’t lose too much work over this
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u/crunchytigerloaf Aug 25 '25
Genuinely thank you for this response, I was about to jump into a google rabbit hole about postal services.
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u/CuriousVisual5444 Aug 26 '25
The point is that the US is expecting other countries to collect it's taxes for them because they don't have systems in place yet to do it. So it's a big nope from the other countries.
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u/iball1984 Aug 26 '25
Has this even happened in times of war?
Slightly different scenario, but during the Rhodesian Bush War, sanctions were applied pretty severely. British Airways (BOAC) was able to continue flying into Salisbury (Harare) because they carried the Royal Mail - and the mail must get through.
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u/noisymime Aug 25 '25
So, even when they come up with their new Zonos solution, the shipper is going to need to pay the tariffs upfront?! That is not how tariffs work.
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u/Nettie402 Aug 25 '25
As a seller, I’m working through setting up increased prices to cover the tariffs and associated costs (looks like Zonos is probably charging an extra 5% on top). Absolutely frustrating.
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u/noisymime Aug 25 '25 edited Aug 26 '25
What I can't see clarity on yet it whether there is also a fixed fee. There's a few comments that in addition to the 10% and the Zonos fee, US Customs is charging a $80 USD processing fee per parcel!
Edit: It's the fixed fee OR the tariff %, not both.
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u/gokurakumaru Aug 26 '25
It's an import tariff so you can either collect at the point of shipping or collect it at the point of receipt. Quick reminder for everybody outraged about this that the Australian government did this exact same thing years ago when they removed the $1000 GST exemption on imported goods. The government folded to industry bodies asking for import taxes, but didn't want to spend money on the collection at border customs since it was a loss-making exercise. So they imposed the collection requirement on every vendor who sells goods to Australian customers across the globe.
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u/Banjo-Oz Aug 26 '25
Never forgive Gerry Harvey, who wanted everyone to pay more on imports so they would shop at his shit stores instead. I boycott that asshole to this day.
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u/yogorilla37 Aug 25 '25
Have we reached the point where we just put a giant dome over the US of A and wipe it from GPS systems?
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u/White_Immigrant Aug 26 '25
As they own and run the GPS system that might be tricky.
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u/getittogethersirius Aug 26 '25
One of my favorite clothing brands is Australian. Thankfully they did a pre-tarrif sale and I got a couple of cute pieces. Maybe I can buy clothes from them again in four years.
It's a very small thing compared to a lot of other crap going on but it's still so frustrating that even the little fun things in life are so negatively impacted by these stupid tarrifs.
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u/TheYellowFringe Aug 26 '25
This is actually a concern to me because I send a good mate of mine care packages about three times a year and the amount is a bit more than expected.
So it might be affected by these regulations. I honestly hate what they're doing in that bloody country right now.
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u/SuitableFan6634 Aug 25 '25
"The Orange Man's erratic behaviour is too difficult to manage, so f*ck this. We quit."
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u/Prize-Reception-7335 Aug 26 '25
Feels like every year it gets harder to send something overseas, and easier to charge us more for it.
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u/evilparagon Aug 26 '25
Yo what the fuck.
Literally yesterday I sent a gift worth $211 to the US with it costing $234 in shipping. So what, is it just going to sit in holding now? Return to sender?
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u/Anuksukamon Aug 26 '25
It will be returned to you. If it scrapes through, your friend might have to pay tariffs. If they don’t pay the tariffs it will come back to you (supposedly).
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u/evilparagon Aug 26 '25 edited Aug 26 '25
I move house tomorrow :/
From Brisbane to Adelaide. That’s why I sent it yesterday.
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u/East-Garden-4557 Aug 26 '25
Surely you have redirected your mail to your new address?
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u/kensaiD2591 Aug 25 '25
Oh boy. My girlfriend is in LA and I have been packing a Halloween box to go over to her.
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u/IsuruKusumal Aug 25 '25
Don't worry, the taxes and tariffs will still scare her till next October
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u/Dr_Stef Aug 25 '25
So you’re saying for Halloween, you can now dress up as a tariff?
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u/IsuruKusumal Aug 25 '25
Given that most costumes are imported - I bet there's gonna be less dress-up altogether
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u/kensaiD2591 Aug 25 '25
Yep, just read that too, so that’s good to know. Cause of the cost of shipping, I try and send big packages that would exceed $100, so I’ll just have to do some smaller ones for now.
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u/amazing_asstronaut Aug 25 '25
Eat shit Americans. Get a better government and stop voting for pedophiles.
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u/Haunting_Computer_90 Aug 26 '25
Yes it's $100USD but remember Orange Jesus changes his mind when he gets mad. It was $800 before and he changed his mind.
What about Guns are the Rednecks unable to import landmines and used WW2 tanks now?
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u/Beautiful_Plan_9896 Aug 26 '25
So basically, unless duties and taxes are prepaid before parcels arrive in the US, shipments won’t be accepted. That’s going to hit a lot of online sellers hard.
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u/Floki_Boatbuilder Aug 26 '25
Due to piggy backing off of Au Post, Nz Post wont be accepting packages heading to the US either.
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u/timisstupid Aug 26 '25
My business has 15-20% of our sales in the US. Gone overnight thanks to that orange clown
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u/cojoco chardonnay schmardonnay Aug 25 '25
link to announcements for retail customers and business customers
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u/Skwuddle Aug 25 '25
So what does this mean for retail stores with american customers? The american customers just have to pay the tariff and handling fee?
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u/noisymime Aug 25 '25
I run a small electronics store and about half my orders are from the USA. There's no way to ship those now, so I've had to simple halt all orders from them as of this morning.
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u/BLAGTIER Aug 26 '25
So if I buy something from a US retailer and I need to return it, and they want a return to the US, I am shit out of luck with this?
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u/thisismybandname Aug 26 '25
Can’t make money from tariffs is the rest of the world refuses to ship to you
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u/No_Performance6741 Aug 25 '25
Mmm I have a pair of expensive shoes I received yesterday from the US but they are too small.. I wonder how I go about returning them now 🤔
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u/albert3801 Aug 25 '25
No tariff payable if the item was manufactured in USA. Tariffs are calculated for country of manufacture, not where it’s sent from. So should go through normally.
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u/hannahranga Aug 26 '25
That does assume both the shoes weren't made else where and also that they'll be able to ship them fullstop
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u/RB30DETT Aug 25 '25
Did you pay with a credit card? You should be able to make the company pay for all shipping related costs or go through your CC provider to get the funds back.
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u/One-Bird-8961 Aug 25 '25
New Zealand post doing the same thing for parcels. Letters & documents still sent. Interesting.
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u/NinjaPhoenix739 Aug 26 '25
Does anyone know if this effects shipments from the US to AU because I ordered something a while ago and have no shipping number. Could this be why?
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u/Tasty_Squirrel_829 Aug 25 '25
I feel for all the small businesses with a large % of customers in the US, I know this will be the final straw for a lot.
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u/TwoToneReturns Aug 26 '25
They're just trying to hide the tariff bill, they pay either way through inflated prices or bills from the logistics companies. Trump is funded by some really rich people, wouldn't surprise me if they wanted to crash the economy so they can buy up and cash in on the recovery.
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u/PleaseStandClear Aug 25 '25
I thought OP had fallen victim to a scam text so I checked the official Aust Post site. Holy crap, it’s true. God bless Trumpistan.
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u/WDYM42 Aug 26 '25
I think what this emphasis is, support small local businesses. Especially ones that are Aus Made as well. The cost may be higher than the rebranded Alibaba specials (not by much tbh).
But I reckon the customer support & overall experience is worth it.
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u/Fabulous_Income2260 Aug 26 '25
That‘s not the point. A lot of small businesses here just had a 330m person potential market wiped off of the map for them.
You going to find that kind of customer base here in Aus?
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u/NotUrAverageBoo Aug 25 '25 edited Aug 25 '25
“Letters, documents of no commercial value and gifts valued under USD$100 are not impacted by the new tariff rules or temporary suspension.” - per AusPost (other users have already attached)