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So the reason is not that they would need to pay more and don't want to, but that nobody knows who to pay, what to pay, and how to pay. There is literally no way to send a package to the US today and know how much it will cost.
So this is not Trump being aggressive in negotiation, but just being incompetent.
He is actually extremely competent, if the goal is to destroy US' status as a superpower.
That would explain why he had to check in with his FSB handler in Alaska last week.
Oh my God trump thinks he's trading Alaska for Greenland. It just clicked.
But he forgot that Greenland has two cannons and 3 horses on it already.
He thrives off making everybody on edge with uncertainty, that's why he won't tell us WHEN he intends to invade Chicago and other big cities
Trump wants IOSS, just implemented in a week, somehow by someone else than America themselves, and made immediately mandatory.
And I want a Pilatus PC-12 for free with no maintenance costs, but life is more complicated than that.
Nonsense. People don't want to pay. We had US customers refuse duties.
What really happened, the minimis has been removed, now everything has duties attached while before it was things over 800 dollars. No business is just going to "eat that cost". It's all being passed down. Express couriers will make it paid up front so most won't notice it there... But cheap services? Customer has to pay it themselves. It's all lack of understanding.
While the cheap service might be 10 dollars, you got to pay 50 dollars in duties in a weeks time. Vs say the 75 dollars express with duties baked in.
But US folk are kept in the dark about it. So they simply don't understand how it works.
How would a foreign country collect this in behalf of the US? No system has been setup for this by the US.
EU, UK and others have systems in place to make this possible. The US hasn't.
Unless UPS/DHL have been just pocketing our money, this money is being passed somewhere...
Its not part of my job HOW it's paid, but it is figuring out HOW MUCH is being paid. And I can tell you, it is happening for these two couriers. Feel free to share your professional experience, if you have any.
Then probably there is a system in place between UPS/DHL and the US customs. But there is none available for the national postal organizations. I don't think UPS is going to just open its computer systems for all possible countries to use.
(Also, DHL? Isn't that the postal service of Germany? Germany's postal service is listed as "Germany" in the above list. Are you sure DHL hasn't suspended those shipments as well? If it hasn't, then Germany shouldn't be on the list!)
It's the now age old Trump-Tariff faux-paradox ...
Country A has a package to ship to the US ...
The US tells Country A: 'aha tariffs need to be paid"...
Country A says "okay, tell the recipient to pay the tariffs and give us the ok when they did so we can deliver it past your border".
The US gets angry: "no no someone else pays tariffs not us! How dare you put the tariffs on us! Others are supposed to pay!"
Country A mumbles "ok, be that way", returns the package to sender, sender might refund but keeps shipping costs... and the US customer loses out twice.
Trump is why America can't have nice things
The root cause is a profound anti-intellectual bent.
Fascist bents, I'd say.
Knowing the definition of “fascist” is too intellectual for 90% of America.
Americans are why Americans can't have nice things.
his obssesion with tariffs is one of his identities.
Tariffs and underage girls
Yeah i really don't think the majority of the population realizes how delicate the global trade system is.
Just recently on August 19th, ALL parts with steel or aluminum in them are tariffed an additional 50%. This covers hundreds of thousands of products we all purchase, and there is ZERO chance of them being manufactured in the USA. This will ruin most of the US economy for those parts as prices skyrocket.
Make sure to buy your car parts NOW before the warehouses are empty and they have to reorder at a 50% higher cost. The tariff covers all car parts including oil filters.
The media is very quiet about this, and we all know why.
From the article:
Let the Murricans fight it out and fix the mess they started. They shouldn't have nice things if they think fascism and fucking up the planet are the way to go.
And yes, I also mean those that didn't actively support Trump but aren't fighting back.
Moar!!!
I got a notification from bpost saying it's suspended because they don't know how much the cost will be, so they don't know how much to charge.
Expected and actually surprised it happened
Wonder if this will effect visas.
Credit cards are mailed within the United States.
/s
nice. seriously though I just got mine and it took weeks to go from new york to me. Since they are kinda packages I hope its not effected for anyone who found a need to renew for some reason in the last year.
