Some mail deliveries to U.S. being halted because of tariffs

Last night I received this email message, written by an eBay seller in the London area -

It would seem that the UK post office as well as the European postal services and  all carriers  (DHL etc) are suspending all deliveries to the USA unless it is a gift with a value of less than $100. This is because Trump has not told anyone how these tariffs are to be applied and as a result there are no systems to ship packages to the US. It is not known when we can ship to the US again. The restriction is set to start Monday. I can still ship tomorrow, so if there is anything I am listing now that you want, make me an offer and I can switch the listing to a buy it now price.

Regards

Roger

Today I am seeing confirmation by the BBC -

Postal services around the world are pausing some deliveries to the US over confusion around new import taxes that must be paid on parcels from the end of the month.

US President Donald Trump signed an executive order last month ending the global import tax exemption on low-value parcels, which takes effect from 29 August.

While gifts worth less than $100 will remain duty-free, the changes mean all other packages will face the same tariff rate as other goods from their country of origin.

Postal services, including Royal Mail and Germany's DHL, said they would suspend deliveries until they had proper systems in place to deal with the new rules.