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“If the shipper or receiver have not paid these costs, UPS generates a bill so the shipment can be released by Customs and Border Protection.”

Further shipments were then intercepted and officers used forensics on the packages to identify two men.

The firm limited shipments to the US in the second quarter after the president imposed a 25% tariff on car imports in April.

It added there were a further five soft drinks factories that "will resume gradually in accordance with shipments."

Asahi has temporarily suspended orders and shipments of its products with "no prospect of resumption", FamilyMart said in a statement on Thursday.