Correos de México suspends letter and package shipments to the US

Correos de México will suspend postal and package shipments to the United States due to a tariff on goods valued under $800, known as “minimis,” imposed by the United States, which will go into effect on August 29.

In a statement, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs detailed that the suspension will begin this Wednesday, August 29, “while new operational processes are defined.

“In this regard, Mexico joins a list of countries that include Germany, Australia, Canada, Japan, and New Zealand, which have also suspended their postal services to the United States,” the statement said.

The agency added that dialogue continues with the United States and international postal organizations to define mechanisms that allow Correos de México to resume services.

The decision to suspend duty-free entry for packages with merchandise valued under $800 was announced through Executive Order 14324.

This measure was global in nature, meaning that, starting next Thursday, the United States will collect taxes on all packages received from anywhere in the world, regardless of the value of the merchandise.

According to this Executive Order, signed by President Trump on July 30, the measure closed a loophole in global trade that allowed the entry of small packages to US territory without tariffs, which was used by large e-commerce platforms in the world, particularly Chinese ones, which send hundreds of millions of packages to American consumers each year, posing a high risk to US security.