Statistics Show Surge in de Minimis Shipments Continues in FY24
In FY 2024 so far, more than 485 million packages have entered the U.S. under de minimis, House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party Chairman Rep. Mike Gallagher, R-Wis., said in a March 1 statement. That continues an upward trend from 1.05 billion de minimis shipments in all of FY 2023, which was an increase of 53% from the 685 million de minimis shipments in FY 2022, he said.
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The most recent CBP statistics, which were posted by the agency in January, show over 386 million de minimis shipments for the first quarter of FY 2024, which ran October through December of 2023.
From FY 2021 to FY 2022 the number of de minimis shipments went down from 771 million to 685 million.
No less than 94% of all import transactions enter through de minimis, which accounts for 90% of all "illegal narcotics, agricultural goods, and counterfeit seizures by customs," Gallagher said.
"Exploitation of the de minimis exemption is accelerating the export of American jobs and giving Chinese companies using Uyghur forced labor a complete pass," Gallagher said. "Unless Congress takes urgent action, American retail will be forced to shift US operations and jobs to China."