How to Use de minimis in a Sentence
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The use of de minimis has put a dent in tariff revenues, which go to the U.S. Treasury.
—Josh Zumbrun, WSJ, 25 Apr. 2022
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The de minimis provision has been around since the 1930s, but the threshold has increased over the years.
—Ramishah Maruf, CNN, 5 Feb. 2025
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Guangzhou has emerged as the global hub of de minimis shipments.
—Keith Bradsher, New York Times, 14 Feb. 2025
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About 100 countries have de minimis thresholds; the amounts differ around the world.
—Bill Chappell, NPR, 26 Nov. 2024
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In essence, the debtor was arguing that the fraudulent transfers were de minimis in relation to the claims against the debtor.
—Jay Adkisson, Forbes, 26 Oct. 2024
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Often, this means that the incentive must be de minimis.
—Tom Spiggle, Forbes, 25 June 2021
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And those, says Bahnfleth, are still sort of de minimis rather than extreme.
—Adam Rogers, Wired, 9 Nov. 2020
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Temu's growth does not depend on the de minimis policy.
—Alina Selyukh, NPR, 13 Sep. 2024
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Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross says the effects of the new tariffs are de minimis.
—The Editorial Board, WSJ, 21 Mar. 2018
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More than 90% of all packages coming into the U.S. now enter via de minimis.
—Laura Gottesdiener and Stephen Eisenhammer, USA TODAY, 15 Feb. 2025
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Such bulk orders are not de minimis, as container loads will cost over $800.
—Kenneth Rapoza, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2023
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The volume of products coming into the U.S. that benefit from the de minimis rule has soared in recent years.
—Kevin Freking, BostonGlobe.com, 24 June 2023
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The de minimis tax exemption allows packages worth less than $800 to be shipped into the U.S. tax-free and duty-free.
—Ella Gonzales, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 19 Mar. 2025
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But prices under $97.50 are below the de minimis threshold, so your return on this bond will take a bigger tax hit.
—Jason Zweig, WSJ, 9 Sep. 2022
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Crypto advocates want the IRS to allow a de minimis exemption—say of $200 of gain—but the agency hasn’t budged.
—Laura Saunders, WSJ, 14 May 2021
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A day later, the postal service reversed course and resumed processing the de minimis parcels.
—Greg Iacurci, CNBC, 4 Mar. 2025
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During the pandemic, when e-commerce purchases soared, so did the use of de minimis.
—Jordyn Holman Audra Melton, New York Times, 21 Jan. 2024
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Companies like Shein, Temu, Amazon and Wayfair are users of the de minimis shipments, mostly without the consumer aware of the process.
—Shelley E. Kohan, Forbes, 9 Dec. 2024
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Importers mainly from China have used the de minimis exemption for shipments of $800 or less to flood the U.S. market.
—Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 13 Sep. 2024
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This one bequest, though, will make a de minimis difference to inequality in the world.
—New York Times, 23 Nov. 2021
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China, for example, sets the de minimis threshold at about $7.
—Didi Tang, Fortune Asia, 4 Mar. 2024
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Temu and Shein have been preparing to maintain their U.S. customer base following the end of the de minimis exemption.
—Francisco Velasquez, Quartz, 6 Feb. 2025
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But don’t discount the odds that Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer will use even de minimis permitting changes as a bargaining chip for more spending.
—The Editorial Board, WSJ, 5 Aug. 2022
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The e-commerce boom brought on by the pandemic wasn’t the only factor in the proliferation of de minimis shipments.
—Jordyn Holman Audra Melton, New York Times, 21 Jan. 2024
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Another exception is the de minimis exception if the buyback is less than $1 million in a year.
—Tax Notes Staff, Forbes, 5 Oct. 2022
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Judges don’t want to see these de minimis marijuana cases.
—Washington Post, 3 Jan. 2020
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There are also two bills lingering in Congress that would exclude China from the de minimis channel.
—Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 27 June 2024
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China’s de minimis industry is not confined to Guangzhou.
—Keith Bradsher, New York Times, 14 Feb. 2025
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The de minimis level allows states to lower revenues by 1 percent of the baseline year without triggering the clawback.
—Tax Notes Staff, Forbes, 23 June 2021
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Ultimately, the administration’s temporary U-turn on the de minimis exemptions may have come too late for me.
—Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN, 27 Feb. 2025
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