President Trump has decided to suspend duty-free de minimis for the USA, effective 29 August. Aaron Bezzant, Head of Supply Chain at Zonos, discusses the background to the President's Executive Order, what it means for e-commerce and the postal world, and what steps need to be taken to be compliant.

• The details of President Trump's Executive Order
• Previous attempt at eliminating de minimis for the postal stream
• Customs and Border Protection and USPS collection processes
• Duties for China Post and Hongkong Post shipments
• Tactics used to exploit previous de minimis crackdown on Chinese-made goods
• Compliance that has to be in place to meet 29 August deadline
• Effective mandate on DDP
• Bona fide gift exemption for low-value items
• How postal operators can start the journey to be compliant by 29 August
• Temporary simplified tariffs
• Remittance requirements and options from 29 August
• MFN and IEEPA tariff rates
• Role of third party in collecting funds and remitting to CBP
• Who ends up paying the duties?
• How Zonos can help pre-collect duties and taxes
• Why building a postal DDP network is central to winning in e-commerce delivery
• The importance of DDP for goods shipped to the USA
• Zonos tools and systems for postal operators for handling tariffs, including collection
• Other Zonos tools for posts to help e-commerce retailers
• Zonos app to facilitate over-the-counter lodgement of international parcels
• Simplifying the start online finish in-store process for post office parcel lodgement
• Helping postal operators no matter what stage of the digital transformation journey they're at
• Simple calculation tools