Shopify president Harley Finkelstein spoke out in favor of de minimis on Tuesday, saying that countries should make it easier to sell low-cost items cross-border. An executive order issued by ...

President Donald Trump has reversed his decision to eliminate the “de minimis” loophole that allowed packages from China valued at under $800 to be processed without customs duties or tariffs.

It is one of the most generous such exemptions in the world: the EU de minimis threshold, for example, is 150 euros ($156). The U.S. has used de minimis since 1938 to reduce administrative burdens.

Over the years, Congress has revised the de minimis threshold several times. Starting in the 1990s, the U.S. began using the exemption — also referred to as Section 321 — to minimize transaction costs ...

Shein and Temu won't meet an untimely end because of de minimis changes, e-commerce experts say. The logistics world has been expecting changes to the de minimis exemption for a while, and both ...

While the pause opens up another front in the president’s promised trade war, the delay on closing the so-called de minimis loophole has businesses scrambling to make preparations and policy ...

McAllister, a partner at law firm Holland & Knight in Washington, D.C. The de minimis exemption has been around since 1930, when the threshold was $1, but has been increasingly used as a tool to ...

“De minimis” rules, which state that incoming goods under a certain value are not subject to import duties, were temporarily suspended by the US but reinstated within a week. A rule change was ...

US President Donald Trump’s elimination of a long-standing tariff exemption that benefited China’s cross-border e-commerce giants will hurt American consumers – especially those on low ...

reducing importing under the de minimis threshold. In contrast, Shein remains more reliant on air freight to directly ship the thousands of styles of ultra-fast fashion items it pumps out each ...

Capping off the first month of 2025, the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) issued Revenue Regulations (RR) No. 004-2025 (RR No. 4-25), amending the rules on certain de minimis benefits. It increased ...

The “de minimis” exemption that allowed packages worth less than US$800 to enter the United States duty-free was removed as part of an executive order signed by Trump on February 1 ...