A rule that allowed goods under a certain value to be imported duty free from China into the US is in jeopardy, with industry ...

The de minimis law promotes trade and lowers barriers to global commerce by expediting the import of low-value items, ...

U.S. President Donald Trump this week shut a trade loophole that has been used to ship low-value packages duty-free from ...

Rep. Rosa DeLauro says the Trump administration has retreated from removing a lucrative tariff exemption for low-value ...

U.S. President Donald Trump this week shut a trade loophole that has been used to ship low-value packages duty-free from ...

Ending de minimis requirements altogether could mean more paperwork, longer processing times, and higher costs for everyone ...

A Latin term that’s been little-known outside the world of customs brokers has suddenly become the stuff of headlines. Along ...

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 ...

About 100 countries have de minimis exceptions, based on a wide range of monetary thresholds. The U.S. level used to be $200, ...

The import threshold exemption cited most often as a loophole for allowing e-bikes and lithium-ion batteries to enter the U.S. marketplace without scrutiny no longer will apply to those products ...

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 ...

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.