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Updated: Aug. 26th, 2025

In response to the U.S. government’s announcement that, starting August 29, 2025, the Duty-Free de minimis Treatment will be fully suspended, all imported mail items (containing goods) valued at USD 800 or below will be subject to customs duties. According to regulations, carriers (i.e., airlines) are required to remit duties to U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP).

This means that when Chunghwa Post accepts mail items (containing goods) destined for the United States, customs duties must first be collected from the sender. Only after the carrier pays the duties to CBP will the shipments be cleared and handed over to the United States Postal Service (USPS) for delivery.

Currently, Chunghwa Post has not yet established a service for collecting duties from senders in advance, nor have the airlines set up mechanisms to pay U.S. duties on behalf of senders. Therefore, effective August 26, 2025, Chunghwa Post will suspend the acceptance of mail items (containing goods) destined for the United States. The affected categories are as follows:

  1.Suspended Services (not accepted): EMS (containing goods), International Parcel Post, ePacket,  
     International Registered Small Packet, and International Ordinary Small Packet.
  2.Services Still Accepted: EMS Document Service (please obtain EMS document envelopes from
     local post offices), Letters, Postcards, Aerogrammes, Printed Matter, and Newspapers.

If you need to send items (containing goods) to the United States, you may use our cooperative international express services with FedEx and DHL.

Suspension of All Airmail Services to Hawaii and Guam

1. Due to the suspension of the Duty-Free De Minimis Exemption in the United States of America, all airmail services to Hawaii and Guam have been suspended.
2. If your mail sent to Hawaii and Guam has not been exported recently, Chunghwa Post will return your mail as soon as possible, and please take the dispatch note to the originating office for the return of the postage.

Airmail services currently available to these destinations

1. Chunghwa Post announced today that,, due to the failure to resume pre-pandemic flight schedules, airmail services (including air parcels and EMS) to many destinations remain suspended. Currently, Airmail services are available to 104 destinations.
(1)Parcel and Letter-Post Services are available to Myanmar、Bangladesh、Croatia、Vatican、Mongolia、Brunei Darussalam、Monaco、Morocco、Palau、Lebanon、Ecuador、Costa Rica、Mauritius、Tonga、Fiji、French Polynesia、Kazakhstan、Qatar、Georgia、Liechtenstein、Malta、El Salvador、Nicaragua、Maldives、Dominican、Guatemala、Azerbaijan、Paraguay、Côte d’Ivoire、St. Christopher and Nevis、Nepal、Tanzania、Madagascar、Congo(Rep.)、Belarus.
(2)Only Letter-Post service is available to St. Lucia.
(3)United States: only accepted EMS Document Service (please obtain EMS document envelopes from local post offices), Letters, Postcards, Aerogrammes, Printed Matter, and Newspapers. All airmail services to U.S. territories and outlying islands  have been suspended.
(4)The destinations do not include their territories or outlying islands.

2. Airmail services to many destinations may be subject to delay.

3. Many destinations do not provide the proof of delivery.