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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, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 21 2018, @01:44PM (5 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 21 2018, @01:44PM (#751647)

    Yeah, I know. It is because of dumbshits like him that we have Trump in the first place. They shamelessly flip their principles on a dime to conform to that idiot. Remember when their favorite slur was RHINO, or how Clinton must be impeached because if you cheat on your wife, how can you expect that he'd be true to the country? Yeah, good times . . .

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  • (Score: 2) by Bot on Sunday October 21 2018, @02:22PM

    by Bot (3902) on Sunday October 21 2018, @02:22PM (#751655) Journal

    > It is because of dumbshits like him that we have Trump in the first place. They shamelessly flip their principles on a dime to conform to that idiot.

    This is what people do, especially when in partisan struggles. But, aren't we now fundamentally debating whether China is a poor 3rd world country? Looks like trumptards are in good company.

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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 21 2018, @04:05PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 21 2018, @04:05PM (#751688)

    Republican Hippopotamus In Name Only?

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 21 2018, @05:41PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 21 2018, @05:41PM (#751723)

    Sadly, cheating on your spouse is legal in DC. We never impeached him for that.

    Lying under oath isn't legal however, even if being asked about cheating on your spouse. Clinton got impeached for that (which is a silly but valid excuse) and then got disbarred over it.

    It would have been far more legitimate to impeach Clinton from accepting Chinese bribes in exchange for allowing the export of gyroscope technology used for ICBM navigation.

    • (Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 21 2018, @05:45PM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 21 2018, @05:45PM (#751725)

      Lying under oath isn't legal however,

      Unless your name is Kavanaugh.

      • (Score: 3, Insightful) by dry on Monday October 22 2018, @03:19AM

        by dry (223) on Monday October 22 2018, @03:19AM (#751851) Journal

        Actually, as long as you're on the same team.