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

The de minimis law promotes trade and lowers barriers to global commerce by expediting the import of low-value items, ...

A rule that allowed goods under a certain value to be imported duty free from China into the US is in jeopardy, with industry ...

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

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 ...

President Trump scrapped the de minimis rule, a provision that allowed ... other countries that have a retail value below a certain threshold without being subjected to taxes — a huge tax ...

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 ...

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 ...

The de minimis rule reduces administrative burdens on low-cost imports. In 2015, the Obama administration lifted the waiver threshold from $200 to the current $800 – which resulted in shipments ...

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.