DHL to hire hundreds if shipping loophole nixed

“If this came back, we would hire more people, not necessarily in our US gateways, but maybe in Malaysia,” DHL CEO Pearson said. — Bloomberg

MEXICO CITY: 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 says.

The logistics industry was whipsawed in February by an executive order that cancelled a longstanding exemption on imports from China worth US$800 or less, known as the de minimis rule.