Australia Post embargo on parcels to USA.

[Allan]

I have one last set of Schraeder valve stems and dust caps to sell, but Australia post will not accept any parcels from anybody for postage to USA until the beautiful tariff system is ironed out. At present, 10% is to be applied to all shipments of $800 or more. The kicker is there is a flat $80 charge for any parcels under $800. So my $125 set of stems would now be $205. Nobody knows how the tariff will be collected, who will collect it or forward it to whom. I can understand their reticence to inflict this mess on themselves.

I can still get parcels from the USA, tariff free, but I feel sorry for US residents having to fork out for stuff coming in.

Allan from down under.

[TXGOAT2]

Perhaps the Vietnamese antique tire producers will move to Texas.

[DanTreace]

At present, 10% is to be applied to all shipments of $800 or more. The kicker is there is a flat $80 charge for any parcels under $800. So my $125 set of stems would now be $205. Nobody knows how the tariff

Believe the elimination of the de minimus free under $800 is good, as drug smugglers are using it, without declarations, and many commercial foreign i.e.China companies ship direct to USA consumers, getting a pass on duties, our USA companies cannot do the same. Still if the goods are marked as gift sent from non-citizen and under $100 US, are duty free. And a returning USA citizen, traveling more than 48 hrs. can still bring back goods under $800 duty free.

The way I read Australia tariff application is your items of $125 with be only subject to your country 10% baseline tariff, for a total of $137.50 , plus postal weight charges.

Since the regs are new, most foreign postal services are pausing to get specific clarifications on same. Should be ok then.


A bit more reading on the new effective duties, note those (c) specific flat charges of $80-$200 are selectable by the postal carriers, so some may or may not use this optional method, and use the (b) baseline tariff duty.

e) The specific duty methodology provided for .in subsection (c) of this section shall be available for transportation carriers to select for a period of 6 months from the effective date of this order. After such time all shipments to the United States through the international postal network must comply with the ad valorem duty methodology in subsection (b) of this section.