The closure by Trump of the Minimis Pricing Failure sent postal traffic to the United States to an “almost stop”

The Universal Postal Union says that it has started to deploy new measures that can help postal operators around the world to calculate and collect rights or taxes, after the United States has eliminated the so-called “minimis exemption” for low value plots.

Eighty-eight-eight postal operators told the UPU that they had suspended some or all postal services in the United States until a solution was implemented with regard to plots linked to the United States worth $ 800 or less, which had been the threshold of products imported to escape customs fees.

“The global network has seen postal traffic towards the United States arriving at a quasi-Suit after the implementation of the new rules on August 29, 2025, which for the first time placed the burden of the collection and delivery of customs funds on transport transporters or the qualified parts approved by the Customs Agency and the American borders,” the UPU said in a statement.

The UPU said that the information exchanged between postal operators through its electronic network has shown traffic from its 192 member countries – almost all countries of the world – had dropped 81% on August 29, compared to a week earlier.

The agency based in Bern, in Switzerland, said that “major operational disturbances” have occurred because airlines and other carriers indicated that they were not willing or capable of perceiving such functions, and that foreign postal operators had not established a link with the companies qualified by the CBP.

Before the measure took effect, the postal union sent a letter to the US Secretary of State Marco Rubio to express his concerns about his impact.

The minimis exemption has existed in a form or another since 1938, and the administration affirms that exemption has become an escape that foreign companies exploit to escape prices and criminals to consume to put drugs in the United States

Purchases which had previously entered the United States without the need to clean customs now require verification and are subject to the applicable rate of their country of origin, which can vary from 10% to 50%.

Although the change applies to the products of each country, American residents will not have to pay rights on incoming gifts worth $ 100, or up to $ 200 of personal memories of travel abroad, according to the White House.

The UPU said that its members had not received enough time or advice to comply with the procedures described in the executive order that US President Donald Trump signed on July 30 to eliminate the admissibility in the rights of low -value goods.