President Trump scrapped the de minimis rule, a provision that allowed low-cost goods, like clothing from e-commerce sites, ...

The purpose of this exemption was to ease trade and reduce administrative burdens for small shipments. Before 2016, the U.S. de minimis threshold was $200. In 2016, the limit was raised to $800 under ...

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.

President Donald Trump on Friday 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Friday that puts a pause on his closing of the de minimis trade exemption. De minimis has helped propel Chinese e-commerce upstarts Temu and ...