Passenger and cargo planes are out of service! Just now, the United States took a fatal approach...

US: Foreigners who have visited China in the past 14 days are prohibited from entering the country

On January 31, U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar announced that the new coronavirus outbreak constitutes a public health emergency in the United States.

At the same time, Azar also announced that starting at 5 pm Eastern Time on February 2, foreigners who have visited China in the past 14 days (except immediate family members of U.S. citizens and permanent residents) will be temporarily banned from entering the country.

Azar declares novel coronavirus a public health emergency in the U.S.

In addition , starting February 2, any U.S. citizen who has been to Hubei Province, China in the past 14 days will be required to be quarantined for up to 14 days upon entering the United States.

U.S. citizens who have visited other parts of mainland China in the past 14 days will be subject to entry screening and monitored and self-quarantined for up to 14 days.

At the same time, the United States began to withdraw from China.

The United States has made four recent decisions:

In fact, the three major US airlines, including Delta Air Lines, United Airlines and American Airlines, announced on Friday that they would suspend all flights to mainland China.

Italy: State of emergency declared to last six months

Italian Prime Minister Conte announced on the 31st that the country will enter a state of national emergency and allocate funds to deal with the new coronavirus epidemic.

The Italian health department reported on the 31st that two Chinese tourists diagnosed with Wuhan pneumonia are currently receiving isolation treatment in Rome. It is reported that the state of emergency is planned to last for six months, and the country has allocated about 5 million euros to deal with the virus epidemic.

Affected by this incident, many countries have cancelled some flights to and from China.

Are China-U.S. cargo planes also suspended?

American Airlines, Delta Airlines, British Airways, Air Canada and many other foreign airlines have canceled a large number of international flights to and from China. For us cross-border e-commerce sellers, the biggest impact is undoubtedly on logistics and transportation.

Because a large number of urgent cross-border trade orders currently rely on belly cargo transportation of airline passenger planes, after many cross-border orders are delivered from sellers to logistics companies, how to find suitable air transportation channels to send these goods has become a difficult problem.

In fact, what sellers fear most is that the United States will stop transporting cargo planes.

Just today, a major export cross-border e-commerce seller revealed that international air cargo flights between China and the United States have also been grounded. They have received a notice from the American freight forwarder, and sellers need to submit special documents for goods arriving at the Chicago Customs in the United States, otherwise they will face destruction.

Sellers, please note that the above information has not been officially confirmed. It is more reliable to contact the freight forwarding company to confirm on your own.

If some passenger planes are really suspended, then the price will definitely increase afterwards, because originally a lot of passenger planes would be diverted, and the price would have dropped, but now some flights have been suspended, so things will be scarce and expensive, and the price of cargo planes will go up.

At this time, sellers are advised to:

Now that the United States has begun to ban international travelers and transportation, whether the remaining goods and containers will be banned is a matter that only the US president can make the final decision on.

Therefore, the most important thing is to make good logistics arrangements at the current price range.

The following are the resumption time of major shipping companies for your reference:

In the next three months, it is very likely that whoever has goods to sell will be the most powerful, so sellers should be prepared in advance!

Finally, the editor takes stock of the latest policies of various cross-border e-commerce platforms