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 ...

Of 122 million de minimis shipments to the U.S., 89 million came from China Number of shipments to U.S. under the "de minimis" duty-free provision De minimis shipments from China to U.S. Total de ...

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 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 ...

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 ...