White House just ended the de minimis exemption for all commercial shipments.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/07/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-is-protecting-the-united-states-national-security-and-economy-by-suspending-the-de-minimis-exemption-for-commercial-shipments-globally/
Long term this also destroys small scale engineering people who can no longer afford parts for their projects, which will hurt Amerikkkan R&D efforts. If all your STEM grads are just people who only talked to LLMs and never had hands on experience they won’t be much good at making the torment nexus.
Long term this also destroys small scale engineering people who can no longer afford parts for their projects, which will hurt Amerikkkan R&D efforts. If all your STEM grads are just people who only talked to LLMs and never had hands on experience they won’t be much good at making the torment nexus.