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

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

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 import threshold exemption cited most often as a loophole for allowing e-bikes and lithium-ion batteries to enter the U.S ...

The trade loophole is meant to ease small-scale sales — but critics say it's been abused and gives Chinese firms an unfair ...

It is one of the most generous such exemptions in the world: the EU de minimis threshold, for example, is 150 euros ($156). More than one hundred countries around the world have some kind of de ...

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 ...

McAllister, a partner at law firm Holland & Knight in Washington, D.C. The de minimis exemption has been around since 1930, when the threshold was $1, but has been increasingly used as a tool to ...

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 week, ...