cross-posted from: https://quokk.au/post/207865

Australia Post has temporarily suspended transit shipping to the US ahead of new tariffs due to come into effect next week. > > Global postal carriers have described a "chaotic" environment as some European services halt US shipments altogether. > > From August 29, low-value parcels imported into the US will attract tariffs or flat fees.

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[–] 4 points 1 year ago

This is going to get bad. Commenting for visibility.

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    [–] 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    The single largest obstacle to large-scale international warfare has been international trade. Global trade has made it massively expensive and consequential to declare war on your neighbors - because it disrupts the steady inflow of money. The more trading partners a nation has, the less likely it is to go to war with any of them. It's why the US and China avoid direct conflict with each other - the cost of going to war is too high, both short-term and long-term.

    If international trade breaks down, a lot of the incentives for peace go with it. National economies will struggle internally, and some of those nations will look outward for ways to enrich themselves.

    Either Trump is an idiot and is risking the entire world for short-term profit (which I wouldn't put past him), or he's intentionally eroding the stability of international trade because he wants conflict.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    They thought this before world war 1. Haven't looked at the stats but I would say Ukraine's biggest trading partner was Russia and Russia is fine persecuting its way despite being removed from a fair chunk of the international trading community

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    They thought this before world war 1.

    I mean, yeah, that's kind of my point? Because then we got "the war to end all wars" and the we got a second one.

    Russia is fine persecuting its way despite being removed from a fair chunk of the international trading community

    Exactly. Russia suffers few economic consequences from attacking other nations because it is "removed from a fair chunk of the international trading community".

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago

    The Norwegian postal service announced they're halting shipment of all parcels with a value below $800 to the US, starting today, as there's just too much uncertainty around return processes and responsibility.

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    I'm starting to wonder if picking idiots to run a country isn't such a grand idea. /s

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    [–] 11 points 1 year ago

    I wonder how many Americans are aware of this kind of thing?

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    Guess I'm not sending care packages this year... Though they're probably needed more than ever tbh

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    [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    So that’s pretty much all post from Australia to the US being halted?

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