After Friday, August 22, Bpost temporarily stops accepting packages to the US,, “ Because there is uncertainty about the new American input rates.
Spokesperson Veerle van Mierlo confirms this.
Until now, one was in the US ‘The minimis’ exemption: shipments with a value lower than 800 dollars were exempt from import duties. However, that regulation will disappear on August 29, so that All packages – including those under 800 dollars – are subject to the new input rates.
The problem is that there There is not yet a clear system to collect and pay for those taxes. “To prevent packages being stuck somewhere, we have decided to temporarily suspend sending,” Veerle van Mierlo clarified this morning at Radio 1.
Bpost only accepts packages to the US Up to and including Friday, August 22, so that they will certainly arrive in time. Then the break starts until clear agreements have been worked out with the American customs and post operators.
