According to the White House, the number of shipments entering the U.S. claiming the de minimis exemption has spiked from about 140 million annually to over 1 billion annually.
"This exponential increase in de minimis shipments makes it more challenging to enforce U.S. trade laws, health and safety requirements, intellectual property rights, consumer protection rules, and to block illicit synthetic drugs such as fentanyl and synthetic drug raw materials and machinery from entering the country," a White House press release sent out on Friday read.
