Australia Post is resuming all US shipping within weeks, after the national delivery service found a way to meet new US tariff rules.
“While we are planning to lift the temporary suspension on Thursday 25 September, if we are able to lift this earlier, we absolutely will,” Australia Post executive Gary Starr said.
The government-owned postal service made the extraordinary decision last month to stop delivering many items to the United States in response to the Trump administration introducing a tariff on low-value parcels entering the country.
Australia Post was just one of many global postal carriers thrown into chaos due to not having systems to collect and distribute the new taxes on imported goods.
It now says it has a solution to this and will resume all shipping by September 25.
“Along with more than 190 other postal providers internationally, we’ve been caught in a fast-moving situation not of our making,” Mr Starr said.
“The real impact has been on our customers who export their goods to the US accessing our cost-efficient postal service, so we’ve been working around the clock to find a solution.”
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A wide range of local businesses that use Australia Post to ship items to the US had to stop sending orders there, including fashion brands and Etsy sellers.
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