Importer urges CIT to reject ‘breathtaking’ White House de minimis argument

An importer challenging President Trump’s termination of the de minimis tariff exemption for low-value shipments from China says the Justice Department is using the case to claim “breathtaking power” to override tariff statutes whenever the president declares that an “emergency” makes them unworkable. In a June 26 brief to the Court of International Trade, auto parts importer and reseller Detroit Axle argues that DOJ’s defense of the new de minimis policy would allow the president to set new tariffs at...