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posted by Fnord666 on Sunday October 21 2018, @04:15AM   Printer-friendly
from the not-going-postal dept.

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Trump to pull US out of postal treaty

The US has announced plans to withdraw from a 144-year-old postal treaty, which the White House says lets China ship goods at unfairly low prices.

Under the treaty, a UN body sets lower international rates for packages from certain countries, a move originally designed to support poorer nations.

But the US says the discounts put American businesses at a disadvantage.

Officials said they hoped the notice of withdrawal would set the stage to agree a better deal.

"We're looking for a fair system," a senior administration official told reporters. "We do hope that ultimately we achieve a negotiated outcome."

The BBC's Asia business correspondent Karishma Vaswani says the move to pull out of the treaty is aimed at forcing the Chinese to give up the developing nation status they had when they first entered the pact back in 1969.

[...] The process of withdrawing from the treaty takes at least a year and the White House said it would be willing to remain in the UPU if negotiations were successful.

The US Postal Service and companies such as Amazon and FedEx have complained about the discounts for foreign shippers for many years.


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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday October 21 2018, @12:26PM (5 children)

    by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Sunday October 21 2018, @12:26PM (#751625) Homepage Journal

    Which is exactly what is happening.

    The process of withdrawing from the treaty takes at least a year and the White House said it would be willing to remain in the UPU if negotiations were successful.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 21 2018, @05:02PM (4 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 21 2018, @05:02PM (#751714)

    "Which is exactly what is happening."

    Except that Trump is notorious for not actually "negotiating" so much as demanding one sided deals that cause more damage than good unless it's almost identical to what was originally there to begin with. Which is usually the end result after millions of lives, normally american, are thrown into turmoil.

    • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Acabatag on Sunday October 21 2018, @05:17PM (2 children)

      by Acabatag (2885) on Sunday October 21 2018, @05:17PM (#751716)

      Taking one side and making demands is by definition the process of negotiating.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 22 2018, @05:52AM (1 child)

        by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 22 2018, @05:52AM (#751878)

        It's only negotiating when you're actually willing to meet the other person somewhere in the middle. If it's "Do what I want or nothing." (Trump's general approach) then it's not negotiating - it's an ultimatum.

        • (Score: 2) by SunTzuWarmaster on Monday October 22 2018, @01:21PM

          by SunTzuWarmaster (3971) on Monday October 22 2018, @01:21PM (#751957)

          Watch what he *says* and then what he *does*. The NAFTA thing is the best example. Even the NYT described it as "It’s a cosmetic change for an otherwise consequential set of revisions.". The were, what, 8 major changes in the agreement - mostly in the automotive and dairy industry sectors. It was mostly a fair deal (working for both parties for decades) that got tweaked.

          This deal is over 100 years old, his opening words are "shred the whole thing" (the same opening words for NAFTA). The final solution is probably "China is consider a euro-equivalent partner, rather than an Africa-equivalent partner".

    • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 21 2018, @08:09PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 21 2018, @08:09PM (#751758)

      The only people whos lives are thrown into turmoil are those who reeeee anytime trump does or says something, ie his target audience.