{"id":304996,"date":"2025-07-30T22:10:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T22:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/304996\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T22:10:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T22:10:10","slug":"u-s-to-halt-de-minimis-tariff-exception-for-all-low-value-packages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/304996\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. to halt &#8216;de minimis&#8217; tariff exception for all low-value packages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The United States is suspending a &#8220;de minimis&#8221; exemption that allowed low-value commercial shipments to be shipped to the U.S. without facing tariffs, the White House said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Under <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/presidential-actions\/2025\/07\/suspending-duty-free-de-minimis-treatment-for-all-countries\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">an executive order signed<\/a> by U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday, packages valued at or under $800 US sent to the U.S. outside of the international postal network will now face &#8220;all applicable duties&#8221; starting Aug. 29, the White House said.<\/p>\n<p>Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/business\/shein-temu-de-minimis-exemption-end-1.7522979\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">earlier targeted packages from China and Hong Kong<\/a>, and the White House said the recently signed tax and spending bill repealed the legal basis for the de minimis exemption worldwide starting on July 1, 2027.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Trump is acting more quickly to suspend the de minimis exemption than the OBBBA requires, to deal with national emergencies and save American lives and businesses now,&#8221; the White House said in a fact sheet, referring to the bill known as the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.<\/p>\n<p>Goods shipped through the postal system will face one of two tariffs: either an &#8220;ad valorem duty&#8221; equal to the effective tariff rate of the package&#8217;s country of origin or, for six months, a specific tariff of $80 US to $200 US depending on the country of origin&#8217;s tariff rate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The United States is suspending a &#8220;de minimis&#8221; exemption that allowed low-value commercial shipments to be shipped to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":304997,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5311],"tags":[49,978,659],"class_list":{"0":"post-304996","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-united-states","9":"tag-us","10":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114944476787708479","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304996\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/304997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}