trade framework<\/a> agreed by the U.S. and the European Union last month set a 15% tariff on the vast majority of products shipped from the EU.<\/p>\nMany European postal services say they are pausing deliveries now because they cannot guarantee the goods will enter the U.S. before Aug. 29. They cite ambiguity about what kind of goods are covered by the new rules, and the lack of time to process their implications.<\/p>\n
Starting Saturday, Deutsche Post and DHL Parcel Germany said they \u201cwill no longer be able to accept and transport parcels and postal items containing goods from business customers destined for the US.”<\/p>\n
Postnord, the Nordic logistics company, and Italy’s postal service announced similar suspensions effective Saturday. <\/p>\n
\u201cIn the absence of different instructions from US authorities … Poste Italiane will be forced, like other European postal operators, to temporarily suspend acceptance of all shipments containing goods destined for the United States, starting August 23. Mail shipments not containing merchandise will continue to be accepted,\u201d Poste Italiane said Friday.<\/p>\n
Shipping by services such as DHL Express remains possible, it added.<\/p>\n
Bj\u00f6rn Bergman, head of PostNord\u2019s Group Brand and Communication, said the pause was \u201cunfortunate but necessary to ensure full compliance of the newly implemented rules.\u201d<\/p>\n
In the Netherlands, PostNL spokesperson Wout Witteveen said the Trump administration is pressing ahead with the new duties despite U.S. authorities lacking a system to collect them. He said that PostNL is working closely with its U.S. counterparts to find a solution. <\/p>\n
“If you have something to send to America, you should do it today,\u201d Witteveen told The Associated Press.<\/p>\n
Austrian Post, Austria\u2019s leading logistics and postal service provider, stated that the last acceptance of commercial shipments to the U.S., including Puerto Rico, will take place Tuesday.<\/p>\n
France’s national postal service, La Poste, said the U.S. did not provide full details or allow enough time for the French postal service to prepare for new customs procedures.<\/p>\n
\u2033Despite discussions with U.S. customs services, no time was provided to postal operators to re-organize and assure the necessary computer updates to conform to the new rules,\u2033 it said in a statement.<\/p>\n
The UK\u2019s Royal Mail said it would halt U.S. shipments on Tuesday \u201cto allow time for those packages to arrive before duties kick in.\u201d Items originating in the U.K. will require a 10% duty for items over $100, it said.<\/p>\n
PostEurop, an association of 51 European public postal operators, said that if no solution can be found by Aug. 29 all its members will likely follow suit.<\/p>\n
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Angela Charlton in Paris, Costas Kantouris in Thessaloniki, Greece, Stephanie Lichtenstein in Vienna, Brian Melley in London and Molly Quell in Amsterdam contributed to this resport.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ATHENS, Greece — Multiple postal services around Europe announced Saturday that they are suspending the shipment of many…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":65713,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[129237,3907,51,2000,299,5187,4179,3058,90351,263],"class_list":{"0":"post-369345","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-129237","9":"tag-article","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-eu","12":"tag-europe","13":"tag-european","14":"tag-general-news","15":"tag-international-trade","16":"tag-transportation-and-shipping","17":"tag-world-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115082837948161741","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369345\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}