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US consumers have said goodbye to the five-dollar dress

For years, the little-known ‘de minimis’ trade loophole enabled packages worth under $*** to enter the US duty-free, with no tariffs and minimal inspections. Ultra-fast fashion giants Shein and Temu have built empires by exploiting this loophole, shipping billions of items directly from Chinese factories to American doorsteps and flooding the market with five-dollar garments, all while undercutting domestic retailers.

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