President Trump pumped the brakes last week on a pledge to shut down an import tax exemption for cheap consumer goods from ...

Shopify president Harley Finkelstein said policies like de minimis allow entrepreneurs to compete.

By David Lawder, Helen Reid, Lisa Baertlein and Lisa Barrington WASHINGTON/LONDON/LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - U.S. President ...

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

The closure of the de minimis exemption, in particular, was expected to leave customs officials sorting through a flood of items. “Chaotic is the word I would use,” Ram Ben Tzion, chief ...

Shopify Inc.'s president has come out in favour of a shipping exemption that U.S President Donald Trump's trade feuds could ...

The flurry of executive decisions by President Trump includes a less-noticed move to begin charging tariffs on billions of ...

Each of Mr. Trump’s tariff orders—on China and now-paused on Mexico and Canada—bars use of the so-called de minimis exemption. The exemption lets every business or individual import up to $ ...

Popular online retailers including Shein, Temu and Amazon.com's new Haul service send packages directly from Chinese factories to U.S. shoppers and use de minimis to keep prices low. Those ...

De minimis shipments "often don't have as much ... and Shein to U.S. consumers without close inspection. Exporters also use "master cartons" (large containers holding individually wrapped boxes ...