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At the Los Angeles Treatment and Distribution Center (California), November 30, 2022. Frederic J. Brown / AFP The timing of the decision is not trivial while the war of customs rights opens between Washington and Beijing . The American postal services (USPS, United States Postal Service) announced on Tuesday, February 4, that they would no longer accept “temporarily” and “until further notice” packages from Continental China and Hong Kong. USPS did not give reasons in its very brief press release, only specifying that “the flow of letters and dishes [de même provenance] will not be affected ”. Chinese E-Commerce business shares stumbled on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange following this announcement: JD.com was tumbled by 5.25 %, Alibaba ceded 1.6 %. Aimed from midnight by 10 % additional customs duties on all its exports to the United States, China immediately replied on Tuesday, promising to raise customs barriers to a series of American products, petroleum coal, and agricultural machines with large displacement sports vehicles. Read also | Article reserved for our subscribers China announces its reprisals against the United States while hoping for a “deal” read USPS’s decision later could block, at least temporarily, the entry into the United States of packages from applications ultra -popular online trade, such as Shein and Temu, which sell low -cost products. Explosion in the number of shipments over the past ten years, small articles have so far been spared by customs duties in the United States, but the new government has suspended this rule, in addition to additional customs duties. It largely benefited these two platforms and Amazon: the number of exempt shipments jumped 600 % over the last ten years, to reach 1.36 billion packages in the past year, compared to nearly 140 million in 2015. Read also | Article reserved for our Ultra-Fast Fashion subscribers: “Aliexpress, Shein and Temu are taken in the customs battle” Read the exports of Mexico and Canada later to the United States also had to be inflicted on customs duties ( 25 %) from Tuesday. But Donald Trump granted them a month -long period of grace on Monday after receiving commitments to strengthening border security. Mexico, Canada and China are the main business partners in the United States and represent more than 40 % of imports in the country. Donald Trump “not in a hurry” to speak with Xi Jinping Donald Trump presents these customs duties as a response to the influx of illegal and drugs in the United States. It denounces the lack of border control, accuses China of passivity in the face of production on its soil of chemical precursors of fentanyl, an opioid of murderous synthesis which is wreaking havoc in the United States. Read also | Article reserved for our customs duties subscribers: the limits of Donald Trump’s bluff against Canada and Mexico Read these taxes promulgated by Donald Trump later “do nothing to solve clean problems [aux Etats-Unis] And disrupt economic and commercial cooperation “between the two countries, said the Chinese Ministry of Finance. China has also opened an antimonopole survey against the large American technological group Google and announced that it has placed several American companies on its list of “unreliable entities”. The American president said on Tuesday “not to be in a hurry” to speak with his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping. “I will speak to him when the time comes,” he told journalists in the White House. “We will get out of it very well in front of China as in front of all other countries,” said Trump, adding that the United States “were respected again”. The world with AFP reuse this content
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