PostEurop and its members are “closely following the developments around the US Executive Order ‘Suspending duty-free de minimis treatment for all countries’ on postal goods shipped to the USA” and are “working very hard on solutions to ensure that postal goods shipping to the USA can continue”, the organization has said in a statement.
New import regulations abolishing the de minimis customs threshold of US$800 come into effect on August 29, 2025. Previously, goods valued under this threshold could be imported into the USA duty-free but under the new executive order, duty will now have to paid on all goods from all countries to US Customs & Border Protection (CBP). However, details for how this will be implemented are yet to be fully outlined.
“Critical issues and processes, such as customs duties collection, the data to be collected and the interaction with the US Customs and Border Protection, are not yet clearly defined. Select technical details were only released on August 15, leaving an extremely short timeframe to prepare,” PostEurop said in a statement on August 19.
“At this time, if critical issues and processes are not defined and, thus, compliant solutions cannot be found before the regulations take effect on 29 August 2025, PostEurop members, in alignment with the competent national authorities, may be constrained to temporarily restrict or suspend the shipping of goods via the postal networks to the USA.”
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