Trump closed one of China’s trade loopholes. Now it’s time to finish the job

This is true in technology, finance, and national security. But nowhere has it been more evident than in how Chinese companies have taken advantage of weaknesses in our trade laws to undermine the United States economically, flooding our borders with cheap goods while undercutting honest businesses. 

After a bipartisan congressional investigation exposed how Chinese-linked platforms were exploiting U.S. trade rules, lawmakers acted. They worked with the Trump administration to shut down one of the most glaring of these trade loopholes — China’s abuse of “de minimis” shipping.

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De minimis was designed so the public could receive the occasional low-cost item from abroad — a gift, a small purchase, something incidental — duty-free and without the hassle of customs inspections. Instead, China turned it into a high-volume business pipeline.

By shipping millions of individual packages directly to American consumers, each small enough to