That’s the longstanding rule that packages worth less than $800 could come into the U.S. duty-free. Trump suspended the de minimis exemption last summer, which meant if you ordered a $500 rug from ...

For nearly a decade, the Section 321 de minimis exemption was the unspoken competitive edge for Shopify and Amazon sellers.

A key component of President Donald Trump’s trade agenda seemed to have survived the Supreme Court’s chopping block yesterday: the closing of the de minimis exemption, a law that allowed people to buy ...

The exemption was shut down last year by President Trump based, in part, on the same legal grounds as the tariffs that were invalidated by the Supreme Court.

On February 10, 2026, the Connecticut Supreme Court ruled in Del Rio v. Amazon.com Services, Inc., 354 Conn. 151 (2026), that, under Connecticut’s wage and hour laws, Amazon’s warehouse employees must ...

One of President Trump’s first acts as our 47th president was to shut down what is known as the “de minimis loophole” — a relic of an earlier trade era that had metastasized into a full-blown scam ...