Donald Trump pulls US out of UN postal scheme on China price concerns

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The Trump administration will begin withdrawing from a United Nations (UN) treaty that offered low rates for foreign postal deliveries of small packages in the US, the latest move to challenge practices it sees as unfairly advantageous to China.

White House officials said the US would start the process of leaving the Universal Postal Union (UPU), a Switzerland-based organization that connects postal services worldwide.

The White House said the UPU enabled foreign postal services to take advantage of cheap shipments to the US, creating an unfair cost advantage over US companies that shipped goods, and hurting the US Postal Service.

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