CIT keeps de minimis challenge moving during tariff appeals, rejecting DOJ

The Court of International Trade will move forward with a challenge to President Trump’s termination of the de minimis duty-free entry program for Chinese shipments valued at $800 or less after it refused the Justice Department’s call to freeze the case during broader litigation over tariffs on China and other U.S. trading partners. CIT’s one-paragraph order -- issued late on June 5 as a simple docket entry in the de minimis case, without an opinion explaining the judges’ reasoning --...