By MAE ANDERSON, AP Business Writer

NEW YORK (AP) — Low-value imports lost their duty-free status in the United States on Friday as part of President Donald Trump’s agenda for making the nation less dependent on foreign goods and resetting global trade with tariffs.

An executive order eliminated a widely used customs exemption for international shipments worth $800 or less as of 12:01 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time, nearly two years earlier than the deadline set in the tax cuts and spending bill approved by Congress.

Saying they received too little time and information to start collecting duties on small parcels, the national postal services of more than 30 countries have temporarily suspended sending some or most U.S.-bound packages. They include the mail systems of A

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