Hong Kong Submit mentioned on Wednesday it had suspended items mail companies by sea to the US and can droop its air mail postal service for objects containing items from 27 April resulting from “bullying” US tariffs.
When sending objects to the US, folks in Hong Kong “ought to be ready to pay exorbitant and unreasonable charges as a result of US’s unreasonable and bullying acts”, Hong Kong Submit mentioned in an announcement.
“The US is unreasonable, bullying and imposing tariffs abusively,” it mentioned. “Hong Kong put up will certainly not gather any so-called tariffs on behalf of the US.”
Different postal objects containing paperwork solely, with out items, wouldn’t be affected.
Hong Kong, a particular administrative area of China, has been subjected to the identical tariffs as China, in keeping with a US authorities discover.
Hong Kong Submit mentioned its suspension was as a result of US authorities’s elimination of the “de minimus” exemption and the rise in tariffs for postal objects from Hong Kong containing items to the US from 2 Might.
Hong Kong has lengthy been referred to as a free and open buying and selling hub, however China’s imposition on the previous British colony of a sweeping nationwide safety regulation in 2020 drew criticism from the US and led it to finish the monetary hub’s particular standing beneath US regulation.
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