Nestled within the order is a brief but important provision that could change how Americans shop online: the closing of a little-known loophole called the de minimis exception. Under the de minimis rule,

The tariff policy has received bipartisan backlash, with the likes of Rand Paul and Mitch McConnell coming out against the impositions. One positive, perhaps, is that Temu and SHEIN will have a harder time supplying teenagers with disposable garbage from China, some of which is believed to be manufactured by forced labor.