@pocomocomputing wrote:
Here is the announcement on U.S. Customs and Border Protection web site from March 2016.
https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/national-media-release/de-minimis-value-increases-800
De Minimis Value Increases to $800
Release Date: March 11, 2016
WASHINGTON — As agreed in the Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Act of 2015, signed by President Barack Obama Feb. 24, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) announced that March 10, it raised the value of a shipment of merchandise imported by one person on one day that generally may be imported free of duties and taxes from $200 to $800. This raising of the de minimis exemption is due to an amendment of the Tariff Act of 1930 included in the Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Act of 2015.
Shipments valued at $800 or less for the de minimis exemption will be eligible under the same processes and with the same restrictions that currently apply to de minimis shipments of $200 or less.
Thanks so much for posting this! I appreciate it because I was unable to find the source cite when the de minimus was first changed to $800. I'm assuming that the text I've placed in bold above means that Obama signed an actual Act of Congress, and not a Presidential executive order, meaning that -- thank goodness -- Trump the chump can't simply sign it away again. At least that's my hope, and since I don't have time to check through the statutes passed in the 2015 U.S. Congress right now, I'll have to just hold onto that hope. :-0
The reason I was happy to see the de minimus raised so generously was that I sell quite a number of items to the U.S. valued at well over the old ceiling. This makes it so much nicer for my U.S. customers (and easier for me, being able to declare full value without being worried about what my customers will have to pay at their end).
