Wow this administration is f**ing batshit insane. I thought the tariffs would be on raw metals, not anything at all that happens to contain them.
It's reasons why this that I refuse to associate with Republicans in my daily life anymore. They are undeserving of respect or decency for how they continue to make our lives worse.
Here is the official link:
https://www.post.ch/en/about-us/media/press-releases/2025/us...
Pretty crazy if you ask me
That is not what the link says. It says that goods consignments are not accepted -- which is not at all the same thing as "does not ship to the US anymore". The link explicitly says that they're continuing to ship letters, will continue to ship goods via another service, and (I can only presume) will continue to accept personal packages, since those aren't affected at all by these tariff changes.
The discussion on this topic on HN is far more heat than light.
If I buy a Swiss watch (<$800) I’ll have to use DHL or UPS (though AFAIK, they also use national post in places) so I’m SOL.
But if my Swiss friend mails me a watch they can use Swiss Post still? Unclear.
There's multiple countries that are now suspending shipments over $100 to the US. So either there is a huge fuckup in communications from the US to every other country or there's a fuckup in the process itself.
...or you could read the actual changes? Accusing people of lying is not cool when you clearly haven't even read the source material.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/07/susp...
Here's a summary by a law firm:
https://www.whitecase.com/insight-alert/united-states-suspen...
Specifically:
> The executive order declares that “[t]he duty-free de minimis exemption provided under 19 U.S.C. § 1321(a)(2)(C) shall no longer apply to any shipment of articles not covered by 50 U.S.C. § 1702(b) [enumerating narrow exceptions, such as for donations, informational materials and transactions ordinarily incident to travel] regardless of value, country of origin, mode of transportation, or method of entry.”
50 USC 1702(b)(4) lays it out explicitly:
> (4) any transactions ordinarily incident to travel to or from any country, including importation of accompanied baggage for personal use, maintenance within any country including payment of living expenses and acquisition of goods or services for personal use, and arrangement or facilitation of such travel including nonscheduled air, sea, or land voyages.
You don't need to go into this much detail, of course -- you could just Google it or ask an LLM -- Google's AI summary currently returns the correct answer.
https://www.google.com/search?q=does+trump+de+minimis+tariff...
Well, I don't keep track of what post offices around the world are doing, but if they're not following the rules that I just showed you, then yeah, they're wrong.
It wouldn't be the first time that bureaucratic organizations get things wrong.
> The EO doesn't mean shit as much as how things are enforced.
You really need to step back from the keyboard.
> Som privatperson kan du fortsat toldfrit sende gaver med en maksimal værdi á $100
You can see the number and read the obvious words, it's not even necessary to translate it
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45017265
> I'd suggest something like: "Japan Post stops accepting US shipments over $100."
I doubt they’re conspiring to leave money on the table just to make Trump look bad.
Here's a summary by a law firm:
Normally that would be sufficient, but now we have an executive branch that tries strategies like personally suing all the federal judges in a district because it dislikes some of their rulings on one of the president's signature issues. CEOs of major corporations are literally giving the president lumps of gold to decorate the oval office. So you'll have to forgive me for discounting the value of legal opinions in general nowadays.
Several people have explained that you are incorrect — Swiss and others are not accepting gift parcels over $100.
You then changed tack and said Swiss Post etc have the law wrong.
So what to you? It doesn't matter what details and uncertainties are in the law, it's resulted in most European countries setting a $100 limit, and at least Finland has suspended delivery entirely (even letters).
I literally just quoted the statement, which was explicit that the change involved “goods consignments”. They are continuing to accept mail, in general, and are continuing to accept goods consignments via another service.
In other posts I showed you that there’s no change to US policy for personal exemption.
Neither fact is in tension with the other.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/07/fact-sheet-pr...