How to Use de minimis in a Sentence

de minimis

adjective

• The use of de minimis has put a dent in tariff revenues, which go to the U.S. Treasury.
  — Josh Zumbrun, WSJ, 25 Apr. 2022
• The de minimis provision has been around since the 1930s, but the threshold has increased over the years.
  — Ramishah Maruf, CNN, 5 Feb. 2025
• Guangzhou has emerged as the global hub of de minimis shipments.
  — Keith Bradsher, New York Times, 14 Feb. 2025
• About 100 countries have de minimis thresholds; the amounts differ around the world.
  — Bill Chappell, NPR, 26 Nov. 2024
• 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
• Often, this means that the incentive must be de minimis.
  — Tom Spiggle, Forbes, 25 June 2021
• And those, says Bahnfleth, are still sort of de minimis rather than extreme.
  — Adam Rogers, Wired, 9 Nov. 2020
• Temu's growth does not depend on the de minimis policy.
  — Alina Selyukh, NPR, 13 Sep. 2024
• The de minimis exemption is scheduled to end in early May.
  — Kevin Williams, Quartz, 17 Apr. 2025
• Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross says the effects of the new tariffs are de minimis.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 21 Mar. 2018
• More than 90% of all packages coming into the U.S. now enter via de minimis.
  — Laura Gottesdiener and Stephen Eisenhammer, USA TODAY, 15 Feb. 2025
• Such bulk orders are not de minimis, as container loads will cost over $800.
  — Kenneth Rapoza, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2023
• The volume of products coming into the U.S. that benefit from the de minimis rule has soared in recent years.
  — Kevin Freking, BostonGlobe.com, 24 June 2023
• The de minimis tax exemption allows packages worth less than $800 to be shipped into the U.S. tax-free and duty-free.
  — Ella Gonzales, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 19 Mar. 2025
• But prices under $97.50 are below the de minimis threshold, so your return on this bond will take a bigger tax hit.
  — Jason Zweig, WSJ, 9 Sep. 2022
• Crypto advocates want the IRS to allow a de minimis exemption—say of $200 of gain—but the agency hasn’t budged.
  — Laura Saunders, WSJ, 14 May 2021
• A day later, the postal service reversed course and resumed processing the de minimis parcels.
  — Greg Iacurci, CNBC, 4 Mar. 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
• Products on Haul cost $20 or less and many of them are sold direct from China using the de minimis trade exemption.
  — Annie Palmer, CNBC, 30 Apr. 2025
• 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
• Companies like Shein, Temu, Amazon and Wayfair are users of the de minimis shipments, mostly without the consumer aware of the process.
  — Shelley E. Kohan, Forbes, 9 Dec. 2024
• Importers mainly from China have used the de minimis exemption for shipments of $800 or less to flood the U.S. market.
  — Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 13 Sep. 2024
• This one bequest, though, will make a de minimis difference to inequality in the world.
  — New York Times, 23 Nov. 2021
• China, for example, sets the de minimis threshold at about $7.
  — Didi Tang, Fortune Asia, 4 Mar. 2024
• Temu and Shein have been preparing to maintain their U.S. customer base following the end of the de minimis exemption.
  — Francisco Velasquez, Quartz, 6 Feb. 2025
• But don’t discount the odds that Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer will use even de minimis permitting changes as a bargaining chip for more spending.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 5 Aug. 2022
• Related Stories The China de minimis ban, which is still very much in its rollout phase, has been viewed as a mortal wound to the trade provision.
  — Kate Nishimura, Sourcing Journal, 16 May 2025
• The e-commerce boom brought on by the pandemic wasn’t the only factor in the proliferation of de minimis shipments.
  — Jordyn Holman Audra Melton, New York Times, 21 Jan. 2024
• The United States, for now, still offers the de minimis exception for countries other than China.
  — Ana Swanson, New York Times, 2 May 2025
• The deal also does not appear to include a new de minimis exception for goods under $800, meaning everything, no matter how cheap, is subject to the surcharge.
  — New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 13 May 2025