The roughly 485 million packages that come into the U.S. duty free via the de minimis loophole is “overwhelming” and that volume “makes it harder for us to police products for consumer safety,” James Joholske, director of the office of import surveillance at the U.S. Consumer Product and Safety Commission (CPSC) told the U.S. China Economic and Security Review Commission on March 1
Rep. Adrian Smith of the House Ways and Means trade subcommittee says the Generalized System of Preferences will be renewed, with retroactive tariff refunds worth billions.
Modern-day smugglers are using the de minimis loophole to bring in illicit imports of fentanyl, pill presses, and all manner of contraband.
Rep. Frank Lucas (R-OK-3) sat down with the Hudson Institute on Monday for a one hour event on how to counter China economically and the biggest takeaway was the obvious: it won’t be easy, and everyone has a different opinion on it.
Homeland Security and U.S. Customs face a daunting task in policing the millions of packages full of textile fabrics and apparel that come into the country duty free. They know it. What can be done about it, is the question.
The Biden administration must take swift action to close this loophole, it should issue nationwide withhold release order on all Chinese textiles, and Congress should pass legislation immediately.
This week’s Senate Banking Committee hearing on fentanyl was high on celebrity, short on solutions.
The roughly two-year-old Uyghur Forced Labor Law (UFLPA) may be pushing a boulder uphill thanks in large part to the de minimis provision that allows
For the last five years, a cabal of attorneys and trade compliance professionals have been plotting to destroy what’s left of U.S. customs law. Their
The multinational business community claims that revoking China MFN would be bad for the
U.S. economy. They are wrong.
