The Hong Kong Postal Service today announced the suspension with immediate effect of the acceptance of shipments of goods destined for the United States in response to the signature affixed to the last April 2 by Donald Trump to the executive decree that, in relation to duty-free shipments from China to the USA, abolishes from 2 May the de minimis treatment that exempts from customs duties U.S. imports from China of low value. Hongkong Post denounced that "States United are unreasonable, intimidating and impose taxes in a way that abusive" and specified that "it will not collect in in any way imposed on behalf of the United States".

The Chinese postal company has announced that for shipments bound for the USA that have yet to be loaded on ships or planes senders will be contacted to arrange for the return of the shipping and reimbursement of postage.

Specifying that other postal items containing only documents, without goods, will not be affected by the suspension of shipments to the USA, the postal service pointed out that, 'for the purpose of sending articles to the United States, citizens of Hong Kong will have to be prepared to pay exorbitant tariffs and unreasonable due to unjustified and intimidating actions of the United States".