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The United States postal service announced on Tuesday that it will temporarily suspend the acceptance of international packages of incoming plots of the positions of China and Hong Kong “until new notice.”
The suspension, which is immediately announced, was announced through a statement on the USPS website.
The authorities noticed that the flow of letters and floors of China and Hong Kong would not be affected.
Washington, DC – January 31: the president of the United States, Donald Trump, talks to journalists after signing an executive order, “unleashed prosperity through deregulation”, in the Oval office on January 31, 2025 In Washington, DC. Trump spoke with journalists about rates (Somodevilla / Getty images / getty images)
The automotive groups react to Trump’s tariffs in imports from Canada, Mexico, China
On February 1, President Donald Trump signed an executive order that imposed an additional 10% rate to address the alleged synthetic opioid supply chain in China.
The Order accused the Chinese Communist Party (PCC) of having “subsidized and incentivized in another way” Chinese chemical companies to export fentanyl and related precursor chemicals that are used to produce synthetic opioids illegally sold in the US.
Synthetic opioids kill approximately two hundred Americans per day, and related overdose are the main cause of death for people from 18 to 45 years in the United States.
The Chinese vice president, Han Zheng, as a special representative of the Chinese President Xi Jinping, meets with the American vice president elected JD Vance in Washington, DC, United States, on January 19, 2025. At the invitation, they have attended the opening ceremony (Liu Weibing / Xinhua through Getty Images / Getty Images)
Trump said many of those companies “do everything possible to evade the application of the law and hide illegal substances in the legitimate trade flow.”
The techniques include hiding the true content of the packages and the identity of the distributors through the use of re-show, false invoices, fraudulent fraud and misleading, according to the order.
Trump says that Xi Jinping, president of China, knows where he is when it comes to tariffs. (Tonelina / Bloomberg through Getty Images / Getty Images)
China threatens to retaliate against Trump’s tariffs
Just after the tariffs came into force, the China Ministry of Finance announced that it would impose a 15% rate for carbon and liquefied natural gas and 10% for crude oil, agricultural equipment and large motor cars Imported from the United States, as of February 10.
China also launched an investigation against the monopoly on Alphabet Inc Google and included PVH Corp., the company holder of Calvin Klein and other brands, and the American biotechnology company Illumina in its “list of unreliable entities,” Fox said previously Fox Digital News.
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The China Ministry of Commerce will also impose export controls in some rare and metal earths that are critical for high -tech devices and clean energy transition.
Landon Mion of Fox News Digital contributed to this report.
