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The bill tightens and modernizes CBP's tools, reporting, and enforcement for low‑value imports to better protect revenue, public safety, and domestic industry, but it does so by increasing fees, compliance burdens, enforcement discretion, and risks of forfeiture and data exposure for small importers, sellers, and consumers.
Border communities, consumers, and law‑enforcement: the bill strengthens CBP tools and priorities to detect and block illicit and dangerous low‑value shipments (including fentanyl and counterfeit goods), improving public safety and reducing harmful goods entering commerce.
Taxpayers and domestic businesses: the bill reduces improper duty exemptions, clarifies documentation requirements, and creates a modest $2 per‑shipment fee for many Section 321 parcels, helping protect U.S. customs revenue and level the playing field for domestic producers.
Rights holders, CBP, and importers: CBP gains clearer statutory authority and new procedural tools (information sharing with rights holders, streamlined seizure/forfeiture procedures, 15‑day resolution timelines, electronic notice), which can speed enforcement and reduce backlog.
Small importers, marketplace sellers, and consumers: the combined new fee, narrowed exemptions, stricter reviews, and added compliance requirements are likely to raise per‑shipment costs and could eliminate duty‑free treatment for many low‑value parcels, increasing prices and operating costs for small actors.
Small sellers, remote buyers, and individuals: summary forfeiture, short statutory response windows (15 days), and immediate vesting of title increase the risk of permanent loss of goods and limit owners' ability to contest seizures, raising due‑process and property‑loss concerns.
Small businesses and government contractors: expanded CBP authority to collect and reuse shipment images, documents, and certifications — and to share investigative materials with rights holders — risks exposing nonpublic commercial information and eroding commercial confidentiality.
Based on analysis of 13 sections of legislative text.
Tightens rules for low‑value duty‑exempt imports by adding documentation, a $2 per‑shipment fee, expanded CBP data sharing, faster forfeiture/abandonment, and stiffer penalties.
Introduced March 27, 2025 by Ronald Lee Wyden · Last progress March 27, 2025
This bill tightens rules for low‑value, duty‑exempt imports (so‑called section 321 shipments). It requires more shipping and seller information, creates a $2 per‑shipment user fee for covered low‑value entries, expands CBP authority to receive and share nonpublic marketplace/import data when there is reasonable suspicion of illicit goods, raises penalties, authorizes summary forfeiture and faster abandonment of detained goods, and bars exemptions for specified article categories. The law also mandates new reporting and review duties for Treasury/CBP and requires regulations and agency coordination timelines.