The abolition decided last April by the American president Donald Trump of the "de minimis" threshold relatively to U.S. imports of goods from China and Hong Kong, which came into force on May 2, has begun to DHL shipments from China and Hong Kong to the USA which - the Deutsche Post group company announced - is the only market that in the second quarter of this year recorded a significant reduction in volumes. The measure "de minimis" provides for exemption from duties and is applied Normally when it is considered that the value of some goods shipped in a country is not sufficient to cover the costs necessary for levy duties on these items, which would be higher than the tax revenue that can be obtained from it. At the end of the last month Trump decided to abolish this measure also in the compared to all other nations ( of 31 July 2025).

In the second quarter of 2025, DHL's revenues amounted to 19.83 billion euros, with a decrease of -3.9% on the same period of last year to which all segments contributed of activity: the express delivery segment recorded revenues of €5.87 billion (-5.7%), that of shipment 4.62 billion (-5.3%) - including 1.47 billion from air shipments (-3.7%) and 1.31 billion from sea shipments (-6.8%) -, the other supply chain solutions segment total revenues of 4.18 billion euros (-3.9%), the total e-commerce 1.66 billion (-0.7%) and the deliveries segment postal and parcel companies in Germany 4.15 billion (-0.2%). EBITDA is EBIT of €2.62 billion (+4.1%) and EBIT of €1.43 billion (+5.8%), with a contribution of €730 million from express deliveries (+6.9%), 196 million from air and sea shipments (-29.7%), of 348 million from supply chain solutions (+24.4%), 56 million from e-commerce (-16.1%) and 166 million from postal deliveries and of parcels in Germany (+28.0%). Consolidated net profit was was 859 million euros (+6.8%).