Senate Democrats Tell Froman to Urge Canada PM to Decrease De Minimis
Sens. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., Chris Murphy, D-Conn., and Ron Wyden, D-Ore., called for U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman to urge Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to raise his country’s de minimis level to at least $150.52 (CA$200), when the Trudeau…
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visits Washington on March 10. While Canada’s proximity to the U.S. often makes it the first foreign market that small- and medium-sized businesses contemplate for export, the country’s low de minimis level of CA$20 is a “distinct disadvantage” to companies that try to export to Canada, the Senators said (here). The most disadvantaged goods usually are “relatively low value items where the either the duty or costs associated with formal entry can effectively kill the sale,” the senators wrote. EBay is also be interested in such a change, it said recently (see 1601270013).