Posts of Mexico suspends parcel shipments to the United States while the processes are adjusted to the elimination of tax exemption.
Mexico announced the temporary suspension of postal and parcel shipments to the USa measure that entered into force August 27, 2025. The decision seeks to avoid the application of New tariffs to small goods while the necessary operational adjustments are implemented, thus affecting people and companies that depend on these international shipments.
“Correos de México will temporarily suspend postal and parcel shipments to the United States from August 27, 2025, while new operational processes are defined,” explained the Ministry of Foreign Relations and the Mexican Postal Service In a joint statement.
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The measure is framed in a global context, since other countries, such as Germany, Australia or Japanthey also took similar steps to adjust their logistics systems before the Elimination of certain tax exemptions. Meanwhile, Mexico keeps dialogue with American authorities and international postal agencies open to establish mechanisms that allow services to be resumed “In an orderly manner.”
Impact of the elimination of the exemption ‘minimis’
The US government suspended tax free income for packages with goods of lower value than 800 dollarsknown as exemption from ‘minimis’which especially affects Chinese companies like Shein and Temu. With the elimination of this exemption, all shipments to the US will be subject to same customs rates applied to other products according to your country of origin.
Specific tariffs according to country of origin
In this way, the products from the European Union will face A 15% tariffwhile those from India will be taxed with a 50%. The temporal suspension will allow Mexico to reorganize logistics processes and comply with the New customs requirementsminimizing interruptions for affected companies and users.
Source: Ambito
