duty-free

Major retailers have welcomed the government's review of a rule that allows small parcels to enter the UK duty-free, saying it gives overseas firms such as Shein and Temu an unfair advantage over British businesses.

Under the Canadian system, US dairy goods can enter the country duty-free or with very low tariffs - until certain quotas are exceeded.

Since 2000, certain African countries had duty-free access to the US market for a raft of goods including clothing and textiles, cocoa products and wine, as well as crude oil.

De minimis allows goods and packages worth less than $800 to come into the U.S. duty-free, skipping out on fees typically collected by customs.

They are building sprawling factories in industrial parks such as Hofusan, in the border state of Nuevo León, in order to send their products duty-free to Texas, 125 miles away.