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The United States announced significant changes to its import tariff rules in US Executive Order 14324. These changes, impact business customers shipping items from Australia to the US and created chaos. To avoid shipment delays and returns due to customers not responding to import duty payment requests from shipping carriers, we will prepay the import tariff for all shipments to the US, and will increase US shipping fee to cover some of the cost. Shipping fees for all other countries remain unchanged.

Due to recently announced changes to import tariffs for postal items sent to the US and Puerto Rico, Australia Post has temporarily suspended some postal services to these destinations, effective 26 August 2025 until further notice.

DHL Express is now the only option for us to ship to the US. If you have order pending for service resuming, you can contact us to switch to DHL Express (postage difference applies). Please be aware, the US customs now collect import duty for every single parcel entering the US, so you will be billed by DHL for any incurred customs cost and unfortunately we are not able to reimburse this cost.

UPDATE: Australia Post resuming all US shipping by September 25

We have released SIM7070G in xBee form factor that works with Freematics ONE+ Model A. Support for SIM7070 has been added to the Arduino library for ONE+. Please note that only HTTPS works at the moment.

SIM7070 series is SIMCOM’s latest lower cost LPWA module which supports wireless communication modes of CAT-M/CAT-NB/GPRS/EDGE. SIM7070G is designed for global market with a wide range of supported LTE bands.

SIM7070 is now supplied as one of optional cellular modules with Freematics ONE+ Model A.

Freematics ONE+ Model A also comes with SIM7600A-H and SIM7600E-H, SIMCOM’s high speed LTE CAT4 modules.

We are pleased to release new Freematics Esprit development board which features ESP32-C3 the new RISC-V WiFi/Bluetooth SoC from Espressif. Similar to previous generation in board layout, the new Esprit board has a USB-C port and onboard ESP32 chip and WiFi/BT antenna.

This board is perfect to use with Arduino core for ESP32.