# 2025-00551: Government Suspects Your $20 AliExpress Order Contains Fentanyl 2025-00551, Entry of Low-Value Shipments, is a Federal Register proposed rule from an unnamed agency published 2025-01-14, effective Comments must be received by March 17, 2025.; PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2026-06-11). - Canonical: https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-00551 - As of: 2026-06-11 - Plain-text twin of the page above; the HTML and this file carry the same facts. ## Facts - Document number: 2025-00551 - Title: Entry of Low-Value Shipments - Type: Proposed Rule - Agencies: unknown - Citation: unknown - Published: 2025-01-14 - Effective: Comments must be received by March 17, 2025. - Comments close: not stated - Significant: no - Touches household money: yes - Regulation identifier numbers: none - Last updated: 2026-06-11 ## In one line Government Suspects Your $20 AliExpress Order Contains Fentanyl ## Summary The government wants to change how small shipments worth $800 or less enter the U.S. to better catch risky packages, like those with illegal drugs. Shippers will need to provide more info to prove their shipments qualify for duty-free entry. These changes could start after March 17, 2025, and aim to keep everyone safer without slowing down your online shopping. ## Abstract This document proposes amendments to the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) regulations pertaining to the entry of certain low-value shipments not exceeding $800 that are eligible for an administrative exemption from duty and tax. Specifically, CBP proposes to create a new process for entering low-value shipments, allowing CBP to target high-risk shipments more effectively, including those containing synthetic opioids such as illicit fentanyl. This document also proposes to revise the current process for entering low-value shipments to require additional data elements that would assist CBP in verifying eligibility for duty- and tax-free entry of low-value shipments and bona-fide gifts. ## Effects PRIA read - New Electronic Advance Data Requirement: mixed, medium. CBP proposes an "enhanced entry process" that would require advance electronic data about the contents, origin, and destination of low-value shipments valued at $800 or less. The enhanced process would codify the Entry Type 86 electronic entry approach and be required for goods subject to partner g… - More Data for Basic Release Process: cost, medium. CBP proposes to revise the current release-from-manifest process (renamed the "basic entry process") to require additional data elements for low-value shipments and bona-fide gifts so CBP can verify eligibility for duty- and tax-free entry. The change would require more detailed information than cu… - Who Counts Toward the $800 Limit: cost, medium. CBP proposes to define the "one person" who is eligible for the $800 administrative exemption as the owner or purchaser of the merchandise, and to clarify that if the aggregate fair retail value of shipments imported by that one person on one day exceeds $800, then all such shipments that day becom… - Port Director Discretion on Exemptions: cost, low. CBP proposes to change regulatory language so that a port director "may" (rather than "shall") grant duty- and tax-free entry under the administrative exemptions, reflecting that exemptions are discretionary and CBP can require formal entry for revenue protection or admissibility. This affects how… - CBP Seeks Comment on New Data Elements: cost, low. CBP specifically requests public comment on potential data elements such as a "product identifier" and a "security screening report number," and on an HTSUS waiver process that could affect how data is reported for low-value shipments. 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