Proposed move may increase delivery times, push price tags up by as much as 50% for items that continue to ship by air.

The de minimis exemption — derived from Latin meaning “too small to be of significance” — was an amendment to the Tariff Act of 1930 and was enacted by Congress in 1938 to “avoid expense ...

Meanwhile, Shein reportedly still relies largely on direct shipping and specializes in fast fashion, meaning an end to the de minimis rule—which makes direct shipping from China both cheaper and ...

Few of the factory owners in this ramshackle part of Guangzhou in southern China have any idea what the “de minimis exemption” is or how it affects the level of tariffs their products face ...

Shein and Temu's sales slowed in the weeks after President Donald Trump announced tariffs and said he'd close the de minimis loophole, February data from Earnest Analytics showed. Shein seemed to ...