POSTAL UNION EXIT STOKES FEAR
No international letters, no international packages: A top official with a 192-country postal union says that’s what Americans can expect if the Trump administration goes through with plans to pull out of a global postal treaty over concerns about China. Pascal Clivaz, deputy directorgeneral of the Universal Postal Union, says the agency reached out quickly to U.S. officials after receiving a letter from U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo this week announcing Washington’s plan to pull out of the union in a year if the treaty isn’t renegotiated. “It will have dramatic consequences for American consumers. It will cost them enormously. They will be all alone against all the countries of the world,” Clivaz said on Friday. “It’s an accord that links everybody.” The U.S National Association of Manufacturers has cheered the planned U.S. move, calling the postal pact “outdated.”