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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(126,568 posts)
Wed Jul 30, 2025, 08:04 PM 22 hrs ago

Trump suspends de minimis exemption for low-value imports

Source: CBS News

President Trump on Wednesday signed an executive order suspending what's known as a de minimis exemption allowing low-value parcels that are shipped to the United States to avoid tariffs.

The White House said it's closing what it called a "catastrophic loophole" that shippers use to "evade tariffs and funnel deadly synthetic opioids or below-market products" into the U.S. The order goes into effect Aug. 29.

The exemption had applied to parcels valued at $800 or less, and allowed overseas retailers to ship inexpensive goods to consumers in the U.S. tax-free.

"President Trump is putting an end to the proliferation of shippers worldwide that, among other things, deceptively exploit the de minimis privilege in an effort to evade duties, inspection, and U.S. law," the White House said in a fact sheet outlining the new policy.

Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-suspends-minimis-exemption-low-185825077.html



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Trump suspends de minimis exemption for low-value imports (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin 22 hrs ago OP
'Interesting' to see how this affects meds from Canada. rog 21 hrs ago #1
AND THAT popsdenver 19 hrs ago #2
I'm pretty sure the lack of import duty on pharm from Canada isn't due to the de minimis exemption. thesquanderer 9 hrs ago #4
re: de minimis exemption rog 2 hrs ago #7
will this include his shit merch from china? nt Javaman 10 hrs ago #3
Actually, de minimis exemption has already been eliminated for China, this will make it apply everywhere. thesquanderer 9 hrs ago #5
So he's screwing us all over to prevent opioids from entering the country? travelingthrulife 9 hrs ago #6

rog

(843 posts)
1. 'Interesting' to see how this affects meds from Canada.
Wed Jul 30, 2025, 08:57 PM
21 hrs ago

I've been getting generic meds from a Canadian pharmacy ... over $600/month here, approx $20/month from Canada. Free shipping and no import duty b/c of the de minimis exemption. I am waiting to see what effect the tariffs will have on personally imported meds, and how those tariffs will be collected. Fortunately the pharmacy set it up so I could stock up for the next 18 months at the current price ... we'll see what happens after that.

I know the Canadian pharmacies will be working hard to help us as much as they can.

popsdenver

(84 posts)
2. AND THAT
Wed Jul 30, 2025, 11:51 PM
19 hrs ago

is probably the REAL reason for his action. A nice slurpy lick to the Pharmaceutical Corporations and Medical Drug Insurance Corporations.....

thesquanderer

(12,696 posts)
4. I'm pretty sure the lack of import duty on pharm from Canada isn't due to the de minimis exemption.
Thu Jul 31, 2025, 09:02 AM
9 hrs ago

But that doesn't mean they're not vulnerable to Trump's whim regardless.

rog

(843 posts)
7. re: de minimis exemption
Thu Jul 31, 2025, 03:57 PM
2 hrs ago

The info I got from my pharmacy when I signed up led me to believe that the de minimis exemption was one of the keys to low drug prices ... also one of the reasons they (up until now) inspected very few of these small packages. That's what I read from the bold/italic text in the note from my pharmacy below, anyhow. Am I misinterpreting this???

Post on the Homeland Security website, 2 hours ago: "WASHINGTON - President Trump signed an Executive Order suspending duty-free de minimis tariff exemptions for low-value shipments from all countries. His order empowers Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to close this loophole which was used to avoid tariffs and smuggle deadly synthetic opioids like fentanyl into the United States."

Recent note from my Canadian pharmacy: "U.S. President Donald Trump says a tariff on imported pharmaceuticals will start “‘probably at the end of the month’”, as reported in The Guardian on July 16th. Mr. Trump went on to say that “‘we’re going to start off with a low tariff and give the pharmaceutical companies a year or so to build, and then we’re going to make it a very high tariff.’” And how high does he expect that tariff to go? An epic 200%, as reported in our last newsletter. It is unclear what he considers to be the starting “low tariff” amount that is being threatened to start on August 1st. It is also unclear whether the current special exemption from duties and tariffs that permits us and other e-commerce companies to deliver products to the United States without the customer having to pay a tariff - known as the de minimus (sic) exemption - will mean you still won’t have to pay the threatened tariff starting August 1st. Even if it does, however, the de minimus (sic) exemption could be revoked any day now, as we reported in our newsletter last week."

thesquanderer

(12,696 posts)
5. Actually, de minimis exemption has already been eliminated for China, this will make it apply everywhere.
Thu Jul 31, 2025, 09:05 AM
9 hrs ago

Good point about tariffs affecting Trump's merch though. Maybe he's bringing that production to the U.S. Just kidding.

travelingthrulife

(2,946 posts)
6. So he's screwing us all over to prevent opioids from entering the country?
Thu Jul 31, 2025, 09:22 AM
9 hrs ago

Lol. And bullshit. Just like the fake border crisis everyone falls for.

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