Hong Kong blocks Postal Services to U.S.

[daneiac]

This is big!

[tools*]

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@redlinear wrote:

Yay!!   Do away with all the cheapo aftermarket crud

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Do you mean like the computer you used to post your comment, or the modem it used to connect to the internet, or the servers that routed the data?

[chapeau-noir]

If the admin doesn't change it - policy changes on a whim there - IMHO, that's a good part of this mess, the unpredictability.

 

[onefootflipper1]

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@sextons-sweet-deals wrote:

Overall, The U.S. needs China more than China needs the U.S. today.

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Yep, exactly this. China sells to everyone. Not just America, we are only 15 percent of their exports.  They don't need us at all.

Or to make it even more obvious how much they don't need us, exports to America only account for 3 percent of China's GDP.  All dropping America would do is create a tiny speed bump on their growth, so they grow 1 percent this year instead of 4 percent. Their leadership won't care.

[sin-n-dex]

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@onefootflipper1 wrote:

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@sextons-sweet-deals wrote:

Overall, The U.S. needs China more than China needs the U.S. today.

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Yep, exactly this. China sells to everyone. Not just America, we are only 15 percent of their exports.  They don't need us at all.

Or to make it even more obvious how much they don't need us, exports to America only account for 3 percent of China's GDP.  All dropping America would do is create a tiny speed bump on their growth, so they grow 1 percent this year instead of 4 percent. Their leadership won't care.

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China has a huge foothold in Africa (at least East Africa, where I've been). All imported product and anything that's somewhat modern has been imported from China. They do big business in Ethiopia. China has lots of customers who will purchase from them if the US stops buying.

C.

[reallynicestamps]

The movement to have China raise its rates to First World from developing nation level was well underway in 2012.
It just happened to be successful with China's agreement in September 2020.

What month was your election that year?

Most of the developed world had been cooperating for some time in slowing down delivery on Chinese goods. There are many posts from 2012  on complaining about slow deliveries from Chinese sellers.

One result was that Chinese merchants stopped shipping one by one to the First World and started shipping wholesale from warehouses in the USA, UK, and the Netherlands (EU).

Trump had nothing to do with the Chinese caving in an raising their rates for international shipping.

Fentanyl was part of the problem. One result was that Chinese companies started manufacturing in Mexico instead, exporting those jobs.

[12345jamesstamps]

'complaining about slow deliveries from Chinese sellers'...sellers from China selling items in USA stores to USA buyers...drop-shipping...that will change since returns will probably not be possible beginning next month.

The problem is sellers with where they sell items and where they get items and where their eBay ID seller country is stated as such.

It's like the Wild Wild West in selling...no controls...only profits to be met.

There should be more control of the sellers on eBay.

I see chaos coming with the tariffs coming and everything on a day by day existence...where countries and shipping companies...where shipping changes every day.

[pokascomics]

Think you confuse Hong Kong Post with China Post. There is no more subsidy for shipping cost shipping with HK Post to USA.

[pokascomics · Accepted solution]

The $100 is only when using postal services and will increase to $200 per package from june 1. 

The main reason why HK post is suspending services for goods to USA is because USPS insists that all tariffs-fees is collected by HK post and then past on to USPS whereas HK Post insists that such should be collected directly by USPS-US customs from the buyers.