Trump has done more for the country than the GOP has in 40 years.

Trump Seeks to Reduce Chinese Counterfeiting Enabled by Universal Postal Union


U.S. companies fighting Chinese knockoffs have cheered President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw the United States from the Universal Postal Union (UPU), an agency that governs international postal rates.

A small business owner from New Jersey is confident that the move will eliminate over 90 percent of the counterfeit problem he faces.

Trump announced in October last year that the United States was starting the yearlong withdrawal process from the postal union, a 145-year-old organization that's now an agency of the United Nations.

Under the UPU framework, mail services for small packages shipped from countries such as China to the United States cost significantly less than what the United States Postal Service (USPS) charges American mailers for a similar service. That inequality in shipping costs puts U.S. businesses at a significant disadvantage.

Jayme Smaldone, a small business owner from Rahway, New Jersey, first became aware of the UPU problem more than a year ago when he noticed Chinese knockoffs of his product popping up like weeds on various e-commerce sites.

Smaldone runs a 9-employee company called Mighty Mug. He produces innovative coffee and travel mugs that automatically grip to tables or desks when bumped. Since its inception in 2011, Mighty Mug has sold more than four million units across the United States and overseas.

Smaldone said he was shocked to find out about the UPU problem and see how the shipping rates of Chinese companies were so low. He pays the USPS $6.30 to ship a one-pound package within the United States.

"But a competitor knocking me off, sending it 8,000 miles from China, pays $1.30," he said.

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Is this the first time someone has gone postal on a positive way?

Trump really has a thing for China. Something presidents have ignored for yonks.

Quote from: The Boo Man... on March 07, 2019, 07:19:26 PM
Is this the first time someone has gone postal on a positive way?

Trump really has a thing for China. Something presidents have ignored for yonks.

That's the point, this should have been rectified decades ago, but neither party actually cares about this country. Only their wallet.