CBP Suspension of De Minimis Exemption for Mail Shipments and Postal Informal Entry Process
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On October 21, 2026, CBP published a Federal Register notice indefinitely suspending the de minimis exemption for mail shipments and establishing a new postal informal entry process, with a delayed compliance extension. The notice text was not available beyond its title, so the effective date, the HTS codes affected and the terms of the compliance extension are not stated in the report. The current position is that the suspension and the new postal informal entry process are announced in that notice; the date from which the rule applies and any deadline that has not yet passed cannot be given from the available report.
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- Federal Register · CBPCBP suspends de minimis exemption for mail shipments and sets new postal informal entry process
CBP issued a notice on the indefinite suspension of the de minimis exemption for mail shipments and a new postal informal entry process, with a delayed compliance extension. The notice's text was not available beyond its title, so the effective date, the HTS codes affected and the terms of the compliance extension are not stated here.
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