Ways & Means members renew de minimis reform push in trade hearing

House Ways & Means Committee leaders used a Feb. 25 hearing to renew calls for reforming the de minimis system, signaling that reworking the threshold will again be a high priority for Congress as lawmakers weigh competing proposals to narrow or end it. At the Ways & Means trade subcommittee’s hearing on trade enforcement priorities -- the panel’s first formal meeting in the 119th Congress -- full committee Chair Jason Smith (R-MO) and subcommittee ranking member Linda Sánchez (D-CA) both...