Country Updates/Transportation and Suspensions – 08/13/26

Germany —  Germany/Deutsche Post is expected to extend DDU acceptance until October 31 and Deutsch Post is expected to issue a UPU circular with updated information in the coming days. Members will recall that Deutsche Post was allowing DDU for non-IOSS until September 1. However, Germany will not be extending or making exceptions beyond October 31.

Norway — Posten Bring is informing countries of changes to customs regulations that involve new mandatory digital notification and disclosure requirements, under the Norwegian Customs Digitoll system, and affect international postal items containing goods destined for Norway. With effect from 15 September 2026, notification and disclosure information concern-ing the transport and the goods must be submitted digitally to Norwegian Customs before – or no later than at the time of – border crossing. These requirements are separate from any EU ISC2 requirements. 

Honduras — Empresa de Correos de Honduras (HONDUCOR) has submitted two EmIS alerts: 1) It is suspending acceptance of items containing goods in transit to the United States; and 2) It is suspending acceptance of items containing goods in transit to European Union countries.

Barbados — Barbados Postal Service (BPS) informed that in the light of the recent changes to the European Union’s import regulations abolishing the duty-free de minimis threshold for imported goods, it has suspended the acceptance of open and closed transit items containing goods destined for all EU countries.

Philippines — Philippine Postal Corporation (PHLPost) reports service impacts due to the south-west monsoon. 

European Union — The first requirements of the EU’s new Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation  (PPWR) take effect today, August 12. Not all requirements will apply at the same time; they will be introduced gradually over the coming years. From August 12, stricter restrictions on PFAS (a forever chemical) in food contact packaging will apply, among other things. Also from August 12, new definitions will begin to apply, including the definition of who is considered the producer. “Previously, the company that fills or supplies the packaging has often had the producer responsibility. Now, responsibility is more clearly linked to the brand owner or the company that places the product on the market under its own name,”