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The bill speeds and simplifies low‑value parcel processing and creates predictable fee and remittance rules (benefiting small shippers and consumers), but it shifts liabilities, compliance costs, and pricing risks onto carriers and importers, raising competition, privacy, transparency, and trade‑remedy concerns.
Small businesses and individual online buyers will get faster clearance and delivery for low-value (≤$600) imports through streamlined electronic informal entry procedures, reducing delays and holding costs.
Importers gain a simpler, more predictable pricing regime (a single ad valorem fee option) and carriers’ remittance rules create a clearer collection process, producing a steadier federal revenue stream from small-package imports.
A defined quarterly remittance framework for carriers and operators creates clearer administrative procedures and predictable compliance timing for the regulated industry and CBP.
Carriers face new liabilities, operational and data-integration requirements, and additional compliance burdens that are more affordable for large firms than small ones—likely squeezing out smaller carriers, reducing competition, and raising shipping costs that get passed to importers and consumers.
Importers—particularly small businesses—may pay more if the chosen flat fee (for example, 20% ad valorem) exceeds existing duty rates, increasing costs for merchants and consumer prices.
Expanded data sharing with CBP and ICE raises privacy and commercial confidentiality concerns for shippers, recipients, and small businesses.
Based on analysis of 4 sections of legislative text.
Permits approved express carriers to clear shipments ≤ $600 using electronic manifests and requires carrier collection of an importer‑elected fee in place of many duties and some CBP charges.
Official title: To provide for informal entry of certain shipments of merchandise, and for other purposes.
Introduced January 22, 2026 by Carol Devine Miller · Last progress January 22, 2026
Allows approved express consignment carriers to clear low‑value (≤ $600) shipments for entry by submitting an electronic advanced manifest and meeting CBP approval and operational requirements. Carriers that opt in must assume CBP liability, operate hubs/facilities, and have narcotics information‑sharing and enforcement agreements with CBP and ICE. For merchandise entered for consumption, carriers must collect an importer‑elected fee (either 20% ad valorem, the tariff rate that would apply on a formal entry, or other applicable duty rate) and remit those fees quarterly to the U.S. Treasury in place of ordinary duty assessments and certain CBP charges. The Act takes effect 30 days after enactment.