https://theloadstar.com/the-danger-in-degrading-de-minimis-for-us-supply-chains-consumers-and-businesses/ Making sense of the supply chain Thu, 04 Jul 2024 22:08:05 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.2 https://theloadstar.com/the-danger-in-degrading-de-minimis-for-us-supply-chains-consumers-and-businesses/#comment-192307 Thu, 04 Jul 2024 22:08:05 +0000 https://theloadstar.com/?p=275640#comment-192307 I’m sure that Temu and Shein, both of whom have been accused of utilizing slave labor and have questionable quality, contributed to this article. I recently received a shirt via a vendor that turned out to be in China. Shirt came directly to me bypasssing Customs. There was no country of origin tag, content tag, the quality was terrible and the seller never responded to my inquiries to return for a refund (I finally had the credit card company decline the payment).
So we now have millions of items bypassing any Customs inspections and not having to adhere to US standards. Sounds like the U.S. consumers stand to lose a lot more than the supposed “$14B” mentioned in this article.

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