Europe to halt postal services to US after tax deal scrapped

Published on 23/08/2025 - 17:03 GMT+2

Several European countries will beryllium halting their postal services to nan US aft US President Donald Trump scapped a taxation exemption connected low-import equipment worthy little than $800 (€682) past month.

The White House said it is aiming to combat forbidden and abusive practices, specified arsenic nan importation of forbidden narcotics into nan United States.

Letters and mini parcels nether $100 (€85) will not beryllium affected.

Postal services successful Germany, Denmark, Sweden and Italy said they will extremity shipping astir merchandise to nan US effective immediately. France and Austria will travel Monday, and nan United Kingdom Tuesday.

Portugal has not taken immoderate action arsenic of yet.

The UK's Royal Mail said it hoped to person a caller strategy up and moving successful nan adjacent fewer days to let it to comply pinch nan caller rules. Deutsche Post and DHL Parcel Germany said "key questions stay unresolved" successful respect to customs taxes.

In France, La Poste says nary clip has been fixed to European postal operators to shape themselves, noting that nan specifications and method specifications are still “incomplete” connected nan US side.

Spain's Correos has justified nan impermanent suspension arsenic a preventive measurement “in bid to protect nan interests of customers,” frankincense avoiding imaginable delays aliases problems successful nan transportation process.

Starting Saturday, Deutsche Post and DHL Parcel Germany said they “will nary longer beryllium capable to judge and carrier parcels and postal items containing equipment from business customers destined for nan US."

Postnord, nan Nordic logistics company, and Italy's postal work announced akin suspensions.

In nan Netherlands, PostNL spokesperson Wout Witteveen said nan Trump management is pressing up pinch nan caller duties contempt US authorities lacking a strategy to cod them. He said that PostNL is moving intimately pinch its US counterparts to find a solution.

Austrian Post, Austria’s starring logistics and postal work provider, stated that nan past acceptance of commercialized shipments to nan US, including Puerto Rico, will return spot Tuesday.

This regulatory alteration will person a important effect connected transatlantic e-commerce, particularly for mini and medium-sized companies that export low-value products to nan United States.

The elimination of nan taxation exemptions intends that each commercialized packages will beryllium taxable to nan corresponding tariffs based connected nan root and worth of nan merchandise arsenic of August 29.

Trump's announcement comes aft nan US and nan European Union agreed connected a caller waste and acquisition deal, ending months of tensions.