An Post has developed the new procedure with a US postal partner<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
It will, however, affect individuals sending parcels and gifts to the States, particularly in the run-up to Thanksgiving and Christmas.<\/p>\n
The new regime will begin tomorrow, the Irish Independent has learnt. It is expected to affect thousands of items being shipped from Ireland to the US.<\/p>\n
Any Irish-based business or individual sending a parcel worth more than $100 to the US will have to ensure the US-based recipient has paid any tariffs owed.<\/p>\n
Under the new rules, Irish parcel senders need to alert the US recipient of their requirement to pay taxes on the item being shipped.<\/p>\n
An Post\u2019s US partner will then contact the customer to collect the payment securely.<\/p>\n
If the US recipient does not pay the taxes due, parcels will be returned by An Post to the Irish sender.<\/p>\n
Once tax is collected, An Post will ship the parcel, and forward the tax owed and associated data to the US administration.<\/p>\n
The new rules do not affect traditional letters or lower-value parcels, but, as part of the changes, there will be no registered post service available after tomorrow for items being sent to the US via An Post.<\/p>\n
\nThis situation is not of our making<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Garrett Bridgeman, An Post managing director for mails and parcels, said strong personal and business links between Ireland and the US had been built over generations, and it is an important market for many Irish firms.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis situation is not of our making, but, rather than simply switch off services and leave customers high and dry, we\u2019ve put a solution in place,\u201d Mr Bridgeman said.<\/p>\n
The new rules follow a directive from the US government that ends the long-\u00adstanding exemption allowing packages worth less than $800 to enter the US free of charge \u2013 a process known as \u201cde minimis\u201d.<\/p>\n
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Marco Rubio was written to by An Post about its concerns. Photo: Reuters<\/p>\n
That clause is now gone, with US import duties and associated paperwork now liable on any package worth over $100.<\/p>\n
Goods shipped through the postal system to the US will now face one of two tariffs. The first is an \u201cad valorem duty\u201d, equal to the effective tariff rate of the package\u2019s country of origin. The second is a specific tariff of between $80 and $200, depending on the country of origin\u2019s tariff rate. In Ireland\u2019s case, a 25pc tariff will apply.<\/p>\n
An Post is opting to maintain services to the US, despite 25 members of the Universal Postal Union \u2013 the Switzerland-based UN agency promoting cooperation between postal services in 192 member countries \u2013 suspending goods consignments to the US.<\/p>\n
The agency said it had conveyed concerns about disruption in a letter to US secretary of state Marco Rubio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The new rules on packages worth more than $100 (\u20ac85) are intended to deal with new taxes being…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28111,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[13803,9,10,356,13,14,6,11,12,15,16,5,6561,7,8,4913,1543,65,66,67],"class_list":{"0":"post-28110","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-an-post","9":"tag-breaking-news","10":"tag-breakingnews","11":"tag-donald-trump","12":"tag-featured-news","13":"tag-featurednews","14":"tag-headlines","15":"tag-latest-news","16":"tag-latestnews","17":"tag-main-news","18":"tag-mainnews","19":"tag-news","20":"tag-rory-mcginn","21":"tag-top-stories","22":"tag-topstories","23":"tag-united-nations","24":"tag-usa","25":"tag-world","26":"tag-world-news","27":"tag-worldnews"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28110\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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