How to Use de minimis in a Sentence

de minimis

adjective
  • The removal of de minimis is not just a threat.
    — Andrea Hill, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025
  • So what will doing away with de minimis mean for consumers?
    — Bill Chappell, NPR, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Guangzhou has emerged as the global hub of de minimis shipments.
    — Keith Bradsher, New York Times, 14 Feb. 2025
  • How will consumers be affected by the end of de minimis?
    — Joyce Orlando, Nashville Tennessean, 28 Aug. 2025
  • What is the de minimis exception?
    — Kathryn Palmer, USA Today, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Here's what to know about how the end of the de minimis exemption could impact consumers.
    — Melina Khan, USA Today, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Here is what small business owners need to know about the de minimis exemption.
    — Rhett Buttle, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Here's what to know about the de minimis exception and how its end could impact consumers.
    — Kathryn Palmer, USA Today, 26 Aug. 2025
  • And those, says Bahnfleth, are still sort of de minimis rather than extreme.
    — Adam Rogers, Wired, 9 Nov. 2020
  • Such bulk orders are not de minimis, as container loads will cost over $800.
    — Kenneth Rapoza, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2023
  • Why is Trump ending the de minimis exemption?
    — Bill Chappell, NPR, 28 Aug. 2025
  • About 100 countries have de minimis thresholds; the amounts differ around the world.
    — Bill Chappell, NPR, 26 Nov. 2024
  • China, for example, sets the de minimis threshold at about $7.
    — Didi Tang, Fortune Asia, 4 Mar. 2024
  • This one bequest, though, will make a de minimis difference to inequality in the world.
    — New York Times, 23 Nov. 2021
  • During the pandemic, when e-commerce purchases soared, so did the use of de minimis.
    — Jordyn Holman Audra Melton, New York Times, 21 Jan. 2024
  • A day later, the postal service reversed course and resumed processing the de minimis parcels.
    — Greg Iacurci, CNBC, 4 Mar. 2025
  • Some members of American industry, too, called for an end to de minimis.
    — Kate Nishimura, Sourcing Journal, 29 Aug. 2025
  • This new pause will not revert the de minimis exception that went into effect on May 2.
    — James Peckham, PC Magazine, 12 May 2025
  • The agency processes more than 4 million de minimis shipments each day.
    — Auzinea Bacon, CNN Money, 24 Aug. 2025
  • For now, the company has many questions, but few answers on what happens with the end of the de minimis exception.
    — Joyce Orlando, Nashville Tennessean, 28 Aug. 2025
  • In essence, the debtor was arguing that the fraudulent transfers were de minimis in relation to the claims against the debtor.
    — Jay Adkisson, Forbes, 26 Oct. 2024
  • Since then, the number of shipments claiming de minimis treatment has exploded.
    — Mae Anderson, Chicago Tribune, 26 Aug. 2025
  • The end of de minimis means consumers could see higher costs and possibly disruptions in shipments.
    — Joyce Orlando, Nashville Tennessean, 28 Aug. 2025
  • The de minimis provision has been around since the 1930s, but the threshold has increased over the years.
    — Ramishah Maruf, CNN, 5 Feb. 2025
  • Close to a century after it was implemented, the de minimis trade exception has come to an end.
    — Kate Nishimura, Sourcing Journal, 29 Aug. 2025
  • But the de minimis change, adding tariffs to shipments valued under $800, came as a surprise.
    — Evan Clark, Footwear News, 8 Sep. 2025
  • The bump to $800 opened the floodgate, and China has been by far the biggest exporter of de minimis goods.
    — Qilai Shen, New York Times, 2 May 2025
  • When tariffs hit and the de minimis exemption was removed, our cost structure — all of a sudden — got inflated.
    — Samantha Conti, Footwear News, 26 May 2026
  • But eliminating the de minimis exception levels levels the playing field in the wrong way.
    — Neale Mahoney, Time, 28 Aug. 2025
  • The company said the majority of its headwinds in the first quarter were due to the loss of the de minimis exception.
    — Laya Neelakandan, CNBC, 18 Sep. 2025

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