Hongkong Post has announced it will no longer accept postal items containing goods being sent to the USA in response to the US Government’s decision to eliminate the duty-free de minimis treatment and increase the tariffs from May 2.
Hongkong Post stated on its website that the US was “unreasonable, bullying and imposing tariffs abusively”, and that it would suspend the acceptance of surface postal items containing goods destined to the US with immediate effect from April 16.
“Where senders have posted surface postal items containing goods that have not yet been shipped to the US, Hongkong Post will contact the senders to arrange for return of items and postage refund starting from April 22,” the post added.
Regarding air mail, Hongkong Post will suspend the acceptance of air postal items containing goods destined to the US starting from April 27.
The post added, “For sending items to the US, the public in Hong Kong should be prepared to pay exorbitant and unreasonable fees due to the US’s unreasonable and bullying acts. Other postal items containing documents only without goods will not be affected.”