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The postal treaty however is hugely important for smaller countries. I don’t want a world where the US destroy the entire postal system for the rest of us.
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What about American innovation that relies on certain parts from China, such as the entire electronic industry which we operate in?
They should pay the cost of shipping their parts from China to the US without a subsidy from the US taxpayer.
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/canada-po...
Say goodbye to AliExpress in the US. This will more or less kill the business model that AliExpress relies on in the US for most cheap products.
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What about American innovation that relies on certain parts from China, such as the entire electronic industry which we operate in?
They should pay the cost of shipping their parts from China to the US without a subsidy from the US taxpayer.
The cost of $300 million per year as quoted in the article seems like peanuts compared to some of the other actions this administration has burdened tax payers with.
Finally!!! Moves like this will help small and medium businesses compete...finally we won’t have to pay 25.00 to mail a small book to China.
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What will be the unintended consequences I wonder? Small businesses who use dropshipping direct from Chinese companies will stop being able to compete with big businesses who buy in bulk and ship from US warehouses. This will benefit the likes of Amazon more than anyone else. Not sure if that's an unintended consequence though.
Which isn’t a bad thing. Maybe we’ll see less spam drop shipped items on Amazon finally. eBay too.
Why does the US have to withdraw instead of negotiating? The US are not the only country that is unhappy about the shipping rates with China. The postal treaty however is hugely important for smaller countries. I don’t want a world where the US destroy the entire postal system for the rest of us.
We have the same issue in Switzerland with cheap packages from China which are received as mail but do not fit through the automated sorting system. This requires a lot of manual labor which increases the costs for the postal service. This is why sometime this year people who receive such mail will be billed additional fees increasing slowly over the next few years. The treaty allows under developed nations to ship a…
It does require having to leave the treaty - if the UPU Congress refuses to reclassify China. The threat to leave, is meant to apply enough pressure to finally get that reclassification accomplished. They've been intentionally dragging their feet on this matter over time and they only meet under normal circumstances every four years (they can of course hold emergency sessions). It's the exact same problem the US has…
If my country for instance were to do thay nobody would ship there any more because the billing system would be too complex and expensive and the market is just too small.
The headline made it sound sort of bad, but reading this and the WSJ article, it makes you wonder why it wasn’t done sooner.