With our global presence in the air cargo market and historically strong position in the trans-Pacific trade, the U-Freight Group notes that there has been a sharp decline in trans-Pacific air cargo demand following the U.S. removal of duty-free status for low-value imports from China on May 2.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The change to the \u201cde minimis\u201d exemption, which previously allowed shipments under USD800 to enter the U.S. without duties, has hit cross-border e-commerce flows hard, especially from platforms like Temu, Shein, and TikTok.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This sector had driven global air cargo to a record 12% growth in 2024, with carriers prioritizing high-frequency, higher-yield e-commerce over general freight. But now, traditional markets \u2014 already weakened by inflation, trade tensions, and soft consumer demand \u2014 are offering little relief.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
To an extent airlines neglected their core markets to chase e-commerce. Now that demand is fading, they\u2019re struggling to pivot back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Airlines are redirecting capacity, with eastbound trans-Pacific freighter volume down 8% year-on-year in mid-May, while Asia-Europe capacity rose 19%, according to Rotate data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Analysts expect May data to confirm a sharp slowdown, as carriers reassess long-term strategies amid shifting global trade patterns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For more information about the U-Freight Group’s global air freight forwarding and logistics services, or our e-commerce logistics operations, please visit the relevant pages of this website or contact your local office, details of which can be seen here: https:\/\/ufreight.com\/locations<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" With our global presence in the air cargo market and historically strong position in the trans-Pacific trade, the U-Freight Group notes that there has been a sharp decline in trans-Pacific air cargo demand following the U.S. removal of duty-free status for low-value imports from China on May 2. The change to the \u201cde minimis\u201d exemption,…<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1973,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ufreight.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ufreight.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ufreight.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ufreight.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ufreight.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3248"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ufreight.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3249,"href":"https:\/\/ufreight.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3248\/revisions\/3249"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ufreight.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ufreight.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ufreight.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ufreight.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}