In recent years, the risk of a government shutdown has been high due to political polarization. Government shutdowns in the past, such as the one that occurred in December 2018 and January 2019 have all ended without much incident. But the risk to import flows to the USA are too big to ignore.
The government shutdown that has been threatened since 2017 is now an increasingly dire reality. With each passing day of the government shutdown, customs clearance delays became more likely. E-commerce parcel shippers should diversify their routing capabilities to include various ports and processes (including adding express parcel clearance capabilities)
