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🗓️ 26 August 2025
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From the BBC World Service: Japan and Australia are among the latest countries suspending some postal deliveries to the United States. And it's all down to confusion over tariffs. President Donald Trump signed an executive order last month ending the global import tax exemption on small packages worth under $800 entering the U.S. duty-free, a change due to take effect on Friday. Also, Boeing and Korean Air have announced a deal worth $36 billion for over 100 planes.
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0:58.2 | slash GO. More countries are pressing pause on postal shipments to the US over tariff uncertainty. |
1:06.5 | Live from the UK, this is the Marketplace Morning Report from the BBC World Service. Hello, I'm Nick |
1:11.3 | Khrasi in for Leanna Burn. Japan and Australia are among the latest countries suspending some |
1:16.6 | postal deliveries to the United States, and it's all down to confusion over tariffs. President |
1:21.8 | Trump signed an executive order last month, ending the global import tax exemption on small packages worth under $800 entering |
1:29.9 | the US duty-free. That is due to take effect on Friday, but letters will continue to be accepted. |
1:36.3 | The White House says some shippers have abused that exemption by sending illicit drugs. |
1:41.6 | Australian jewellery maker Jess Van Den says around a third of her business is in the US. |
1:46.8 | For the next six months, I've suspended shipping to the US completely because it's so up in the air |
1:51.7 | and we really don't know exactly what is going to happen. Apparently the US Customs Service has |
1:57.4 | asked that external shipping companies collect the tariff and remit it on their behalf. |
2:03.6 | Australia Post doesn't have anything set up to do that yet, so we literally can't follow |
2:08.4 | those directives at this time. It's a huge worry. 30 to 40% of my jewelry business was in the |
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