DHL Group will look to hire workers in locations such as Malaysia if US President Donald Trump removes a tax exemption for lower-value shipments, DHL Express Chief Executive Officer John Pearson said.
The logistics industry was whipsawed in February by an executive order that canceled a longstanding exemption on imports from China worth $800 or less, known as the de minimis rule. The exemption has been exploited by Chinese retailers such as Temu and Shein to expand US sales. However, the executive order, which targeted the more than a billion small-value e-commerce packages that ship from China to the US annually, was suspended after its abrupt implementation sparked chaos at the US Postal Service.
