US bill may end China’s e-commerce tariff exemption FMTNews FMTBusiness
US lawmakers planned to abolish a tariff exemption used by e-commerce sellers to transport items from China to US shoppers.
The exception, known as the de minimis rule, exempts imports valued at US$800 or less from tariffs if the items are shipped to individual consumers. The bill would ban such shipments from China immediately upon enactment, sponsor Republican Senator Bill Cassidy said. A federal brief in April said the companies “exploit” de minimis to avoid duties and import illegal items such as those made in China’s Xinjiang region with forced Uyghur labour.
De minimis shipments have drawn attention at least since 2019 when the US Consumer Product Safety Commission reported it struggled to catch unsafe imports because of the heavy volume of low-value packages. Such shipments rose to 685.5 million in 2022 compared with 410.5 million in 2018, US customs data showed.
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