CBP official: Cost of collecting new duties on de minimis packages would be ‘negligible’

Proposals from the Biden administration and Congress that would restrict eligibility for de minimis treatment and require U.S. Customs and Border Protection to collect duties on more low-value shipments won’t lead to meaningfully higher collection costs, a CBP official said this week. Rebuking claims from industry and academia that the costs of collection would dwarf any revenue collected, Felicia Pullam, executive director at CBP’s Office of Trade Relations, contended that automation had streamlined collection processes and suggested that even if...