The shit I come across reading for business lol
When a helicopter has been broken down and shipped in parts under the de minimis threshold, you know you’ve got a problem.
theloadstar.com
“On any given day, we could receive and process 750,000 to a million de minimis shipments,” said Andrew Renna, assistant port director for cargo operations at JFK Airport, told Frontline.
“We have limited resources,” he said. “We only have x-number of staff. There is no physical way, even if I doubled or even tripled my staffing, that I could look at a significant percentage of that. So due to the volume, it’s a very exploitable mode of entry into the US.”
There has been much talk of changing the de minimis threshold.
“On Capitol Hill, you’ve got two camps – the revenue hawks that say ‘look how much money we’re missing by having an $800 de minimis. We could be collecting so much more in taxes’’ – that’s the first one. The second is the fentanyl people, who say ‘look how dangerous it is’.