USPS stoppt alle Pakete aus China und schickt die E -Commerce -Branche ins Chaos

The USPS has abruptly stopped accepting all packages from Hong Kong and China until further notice. The move comes after China imposed retaliatory tariffs on US imports, in response to President Trump’s executive order to increase tariffs on China.

The owner of a Canadian trucking company told WIRED that two of his trucks were turned away at the US border in New York and Montana today because they contained packages originally from China.

Previously, packages like the ones his company often handles could move freely across the border. Trump’s executive order, though, not only imposes an additional 10 percent tariff on goods from China but also ends a key import tax exemption, one that has enabled the rise of Chinese ecommerce platforms like [Temu](https://www.wired.com/story/temus-takeover-is-now-complete/#:~:text=%E2%80%9CThis%20year%2C%20it%20started%20with,are%20coming%20from%20local%20warehouses.) and [Shein](https://www.wired.com/story/fast-cheap-out-of-control-inside-rise-of-shein/).

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