The Senate passed the Trump tax bill with a tie-breaking vote from the vice president on July 1. The House of Representatives will vote on whether it will accept the Senate's changes to its bill.
CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters:
The latest version of the tax bill introduced by the Senate over the weekend ends commercial de minimis on July 1, 2027, as the House version does. The Congressional Budget Office estimates that would increase revenues by $39 billion between 2027 and 2034.
Two former general counsels from the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative disagreed sharply about the need for the current aggressive tariff hikes. But Jennifer Hillman, who is helping to write amicus briefs for members of Congress challenging the legality of International Emergency Economic Powers Act tariffs, and Steven Vaughn, who served in the first Trump administration, agree what would happen if the current administration loses the case.
House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith, R-Mo., said he would "love" if a provision his committee authored, to end de minimis for all commercial purposes in 2027, would make it into the Senate version of what Republicans call "One Big Beautiful Bill."
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CBP expects to deploy a third release of a de minimis enhancement in the ACE certification environment on June 26, according to a June 23 cargo systems message.
The Senate version of the tax bill moving through Congress cut out two trade-related provisions that passed the House -- one, which would end de minimis for all imports in July 2027, and the other, curtailing drawback for tobacco products.
Members of the Commercial Customs Operations Advisory Committee voted unanimously to recommend that CBP beef up its communications with the trade by providing more transparency over when CBP updates the FAQs that the agency has been using to inform the trade on how it's implementing new tariffs.
CBP is preparing ACE to handle calculating estimated duties from entry summaries that might have more than two Harmonized Tariff Schedule codes attached, according to the agency's latest ACE development and deployment schedule for June.