Legislators opened another front in the war on counterfeiting with the introduction of multiple bills aiming to level the field of de minimus exceptions which allow over 2 million shipments to enter the U.S. per day duty-free and without customs inspection. The last major change in the law came in 2016 when Congress upped the value limit for de minimis shipments to $800 from $200. Historically used to allow souvenirs and other trivial items to bypass custom inspections and duty and tariff levies, critics charge the 2016 change has allowed a ... Log in to view full article.