Throughout their failed administration, Kamala Harris and Joe Biden have enabled communist China to fuel an unprecedented fentanyl epidemic in the United States by allowing the Chinese exploitation of the lax “de minimis” rule for imported packages. If Donald Trump wins back the White House, his first course of action should be to ban de minimis altogether in order to save American lives, incentivize U.S. manufacturing, and stop slave-labor operations in China and other countries from taking advantage of consumers.

The de minimis rule directs Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents to inspect certain foreign packages that have claimed valuations of more than $800 to collect appropriate duties and fees for the federal government. Packages that fall under the $800 threshold, however, are not subject to duties or fees.

For years, the Biden-Harris administration has allowed China to take advantage of de minimis by allowing their e-commerce platforms to flood the U.S. market with counterfeit, slave-labor-made clothing. Packages of clothing from China and other countries currently enter the American market duty-free because their stated values are typically under the de minimis threshold, putting U.S. companies out of business. The U.S. textile industry is now competing with hundreds of millions of de minimis........

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