SOFIA, Aug. 26 (Xinhua) -- Bulgaria's state postal service is set to suspend all types of shipment to the United States from Aug. 26, due to planned changes by the U.S. administration to its rules on customs clearance of imports valued less than 800 U.S. dollars.
Bulgarian Posts said it would inform its customers if there were any changes to the situation. According to an executive order signed by U.S. President Donald Trump, the long-standing "de minimis" exemption rule, which allowed goods worth less 800 dollars to enter duty-free, is to end Aug. 29.
On Aug. 21, Bulgarian Posts said on its website that the Universal Postal Union has informed the postal operators of its member countries that the U.S. administration plans to cancel the minimum duty exemption for international postal shipments containing goods entering the country, and to establish a specific methodology for the collection and transfer of customs duties.
Requirements on the electronic advance data for a customs declaration, which must be sent to the U.S. postal operator have also been tightened, Bulgarian Posts said.
"In connection with the new requirements, there is a significant delay in the dispatch and delivery of shipments to the U.S., as well as in the return of shipments by the U.S. postal operator and the need to re-dispatch them to the U.S.," it said. ■
