At the Los Angeles treatment and distribution center (California) on November 30, 2022. Frederic J. Brown / AFP US postal services finally announced on Wednesday, February 5, that they would continue to “accept” packages from China Continental and Hong Kong, a dozen hours after saying that they would no longer do it “until further notice”, in the middle of war of customs duties between Washington and Beijing. “We are urging the United States to stop politicizing and instrumentalizing business and economic issues”, and “unreasonably suppressing Chinese companies,” said the spokesman for the Chinese Foreign Ministry of Affairs, Lin Jian . Expressing the “deep dissatisfaction” of Beijing, he however called for “dialogue” to try to end the crisis. This passage of arms around the packages occurs after the taxation of additional customs duties of 10 % on all Chinese exports for the United States, which opened a new trade war between the first two global economic powers. Beijing immediately replied by announcing taxes on a series of American products, ranging from crude oil to agricultural machines. China has also announced new restrictions on the export of metals and metalloids used in sectors ranging from mining to aerospace. “The measures taken by China are necessary to defend its legitimate rights and interests,” the spokesman for Chinese diplomacy said on Wednesday. Read also | Article reserved for our subscribers China announces its reprisals against the United States while hoping for a “deal” read later as part of its commercial measures, which it motivated by the need to curb drug trafficking for the United States, Donald Trump, also announced the end of the exemption from customs duties for parcels of a value of less than 800 dollars in force so far. This has largely benefited online platforms founded in China, such as the Géants Shein and Temu. Log for Canada and Mexico in a statement published last week, the Customs and US border protection agency said that the value of packages benefiting from this exemption amounted to more than $ 1.36 billion in 2024. Washington judges that this exemption complicates the implementation of health, security or intellectual property requirements. Its cancellation could take a hard blow to ultra-popular platforms that sell cheap products. Other non -Chinese groups, such as the American giant Amazon, could also pay the price. Read also | Article reserved for our Ultra-Fast Fashion subscribers: “Aliexpress, Shein and Temu are taken in the customs battle” read later the European Commission also announced its intention to tax billions of packages sent by online platforms, mainly from from China. Brussels, however, stressed that there had been no coordination with Washington. Chinese retaliatory measures announced on Tuesday, which are due to come into force on February 10, concern around $ 20 billion in American goods (19.20 billion), or 12 % of the total imports from the United States, According to calculations by Capital Economics. Their consequences remain, however, much lower than those of additional American customs duties already in force, which concern around $ 450 billion (431.79 billion euros) of goods. The American president said on Tuesday “not in a hurry” to speak with his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping. Mexico and Canada have obtained a suspended from thirty days with regard to the taxation of customs duties of 25 %, thanks to last -minute agreements concluded with Donald Trump. Read also | Article reserved for our customs duties subscribers: the limits of Donald Trump’s bluff against Canada and Mexico Read the world later with AFP reuse this content
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