News / U-turn on de minimis ban, following 'processing issues', as trade war heats up

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White House-triggered whiplash has hit again with the news that a small but powerful sentence has been added to the de minimis executive order, pausing the ban. 

It now says that the ban on de minimis parcels from China will only come into effect “upon notification by the secretary of commerce to the president that adequate systems are in place to fully and expediently process and collect tariff revenue…”. 

The implication is that there have been some processing issues with the vast ...