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Biden-⁠Harris Administration Announces New Actions to Protect American Consumers, Workers, and Businesses by Cracking Down on De Minimis Shipments with Unsafe, Unfairly Traded Products.

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Biden-⁠Harris Administration Announces New Actions to Protect American Consumers, Workers, and Businesses by Cracking Down on De Minimis Shipments with Unsafe, Unfairly Traded Products.

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FACT SHEET: Biden-Harris Administration Announces New Actions to Protect American Consumers, Workers, and Businesses by Cracking Down on De Minimis Shipments with Unsafe, Unfairly Traded Products | The White House
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Administration Also Urges Congressional Action on De Minimis Reform Today, the Biden-Harris Administration is taking new actions to enforce our laws and
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    If nothing else, this has a chance of doing things like helping stop hazardous products (electronics with cheaply-made batteries that might catch fire for example) entering the country.

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      Like how Amazon does it with their products coming from china sellers?

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        This will theoretically stop that from being such a hazard as well.

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          Hopefully it does

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            I’m sure they will do their best to find loopholes, but if we’re lucky, this will at least mitigate the problem.

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