Small packages are a big problem for the United States these days. A decade ago, the US government raised the so-called “de minimis” threshold on imports from $200 to $800. This means any ...

More than 90% of all packages coming into the U.S. now enter via de minimis. Of those, about 60% come from China, led by direct-to-consumer retailers such as Temu and Shein. Trump campaigned on a ...

Popular online retailers including Shein, Temu, and Amazon.com's new Haul service send packages directly from Chinese factories to US shoppers and use de minimis to keep prices low US President ...

The new U.S. tariffs include an end to the “de minimis” rule—a loophole that exempts packages below $800 from being subject to tariffs—on imports from China. This means that packages from China are ...

The new U.S. tariffs include an end to the “de minimis” rule—a loophole that exempts packages below $800 from being subject to tariffs—on imports from China. This means that packages from ...

The world got a vivid picture of how this de minimis rule works back in February when President Donald Trump ended the exemption, quickly causing a backlog of packages that needed US recipients to ...

The de minimis exemption – which allowed packages worth less than US$800 to enter the US tariff-free – has played a big role in fuelling the success of Chinese e-commerce platforms such as ...