End of an era: Billions of packages of ‘cheap’ goods shipped to the US are now subject to steep tariffs

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End of an era: Billions of packages of ‘cheap’ goods shipped to the US are now subject to steep tariffs

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A big change to all the “cheap goods” Americans order just went into effect.
For nearly a century, low-value packages of goods from abroad have entered the United States duty free, thanks to what’s known as the “de minimis rule,” which as of 2015 has applied to packages worth less than…

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