Trump suspends postal service package delivery from CCP and Hong Kong to the United States.
Don’t you just love it when exactly what you knew would happen, starts to happen?
Leftists and exhausted media heads will explode!
WASHINGTON DC – The United States Postal Service announced Tuesday night that it is temporarily suspending accepting packages sent from China and Hong Kong until further notice.
The suspension is effective immediately, the USPS said. Letters and flats are not included in the suspension, it said.
The postal service did not provide a reason for the suspension or say how long it expects it to last.
Earlier Tuesday, Beijing announced it would counter President Trump’s new 10% tariff on Chinese goods with retaliatory tariffs of its own. China said starting next Monday it would implement a 15% tariff on coal and liquefied natural gas products along with a 10% tariff on crude oil, agricultural machinery and large-engine cars imported from the U.S.
Mr. Trump’s tariff increase also eliminated a duty-free exemption for low-value packages coming from China. The “de minimis” exemption allows goods valued at $800 or below to come into the United States without paying duties or certain taxes.
Source: CBS
The External Revenue Service goes into ACTION.
In the Trump tariff Executive Order there is something buried.
Why was the China tariff only 10%? The secret is in that subsection “H” when it talks about de minimis treatment. Trump is levying a much more massive import tax, and confiscation impact on the core source of fentanyl and other illegal substances.
Approximately a billion packages are estimated to enter the USA under the cover of the de minimis exemption. This is where the enforcement mechanism of the “External Revenue Service” combines with the tariff approach and the “state of emergency.”
Trump imposed the tariffs under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, a nearly 50-year law that gives the president sweeping power to impose sanctions after declaring an emergency.
Now the billion packages, mostly from China, Mexico and Canada are going to be subjected to review and interception.
Chinese companies began using the de minimis loophole to ship cheap goods into the US direct to consumers without paying any customs duty. Trump can require a customs and duty declaration stating what is in every package and subsequently collect tariffs and duties.
Three things are happening at once:
1. Trump is executing an Emergency Act executive order
2. The imposition of a tariff review
3. Interception of de minimis packages previously unchecked as the enforcement mechanism.
All executed by the External Revenue Service.
Trump said on Tuesday that he was in “no rush” to speak with Chinese leader Xi Jinping despite expectations they would meet the same day.
. The man is bonkers
