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While the Postal Cor­po­ra­tion (TTPost) is still search­ing for a so­lu­tion to the Unit­ed States’ new trade pol­i­cy that has dis­rupt­ed small and mi­cro ex­porters, Uni­ver­sal Pack­age Sys­tems (UPS) says de­mand for its ser­vices re­mains steady.

Man­ag­ing Di­rec­tor Wayne Chee Ting told Guardian Me­dia that de­spite TTPost sus­pend­ing its par­cel ser­vice to the US, it is “busi­ness as usu­al” for UPS. Speak­ing by phone, he con­firmed that UPS of­fers the same small-pack­age ser­vice and stands ready to fill the gap, ex­port­ing to more than 210 des­ti­na­tions world­wide, but there has been no in­creased de­mand.

Last Fri­day, TTPost an­nounced a tem­po­rary halt on ship­ments of goods to the US af­ter the Amer­i­can gov­ern­ment end­ed its du­ty-free de min­imis ex­emp­tion for im­ports un­der US$800. The ex­ec­u­tive or­der, signed on Ju­ly 30, means all goods en­ter­ing the US are now sub­ject to cus­toms du­ties. The change has sig­nif­i­cant­ly raised costs for small and mi­cro ex­porters who de­pend­ed on the ex­emp­tion to ship du­ty-free.