The T&T Postal Cor­po­ra­tion (TTPost) has con­firmed that its sus­pen­sion of par­cel ship­ments to the Unit­ed States mir­rors the mea­sures tak­en by postal agen­cies world­wide, fol­low­ing Wash­ing­ton’s sud­den trade pol­i­cy shift that re­moved du­ty-free thresh­olds for im­port­ed goods.

Man­ag­ing di­rec­tor George Alex­is told Guardian Me­dia yes­ter­day that the Unit­ed King­dom, Ger­many, Japan and Cana­da have all in­tro­duced sim­i­lar stop­gap mea­sures since the US gov­ern­ment sus­pend­ed the de min­imis ex­emp­tion.

“We are all en­cour­aged to find ways to ad­just to the re­quire­ments of the US gov­ern­ment. It is a sit­u­a­tion of lit­tle TTPost, big UK. Lit­tle TTPost, big Ger­many. Lit­tle TTPost, big Cana­da. Lit­tle TTPost, big Japan. All have im­ple­ment­ed these stop­gap mea­sures that we have for our own cus­tomers,” Alex­is said.