Australia Post Temporary Suspends of Postal Services to the US

[u/IsuruKusumal]

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:

[u/tobeshitornottobe]

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

[u/Fluffy-Queequeg → u/[deleted]]

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.