# 2025-03729: Southern Border Goods Face New Tax Hurdles as Systems Catch Up

2025-03729, Amendment to Duties To Address the Situation at Our Southern Border, is a Federal Register presidential document from Executive Office of the President published 2025-03-06, effective 2025-03-02; PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2026-11-04).

- Canonical: https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-03729
- As of: 2026-11-04
- Plain-text twin of the page above; the HTML and this file carry the same facts.

## Facts
- Document number: 2025-03729
- Title: Amendment to Duties To Address the Situation at Our Southern Border
- Type: Presidential Document
- Agencies: Executive Office of the President
- Citation: 90 FR 11371
- Published: 2025-03-06
- Effective: 2025-03-02
- Comments close: not stated
- Significant: no
- Touches household money: yes
- Regulation identifier numbers: none
- Last updated: 2026-11-04

## In one line

Southern Border Goods Face New Tax Hurdles as Systems Catch Up

## Summary

This update changes how certain goods coming through the southern border are treated when it comes to import duties. Some items that were previously duty-free under a small-value rule might now have tariffs once the government confirms it can properly collect those fees. This affects importers and could mean more money collected by the government starting soon after new systems are ready.

## Effects PRIA read

- De Minimis Duty-Free May End: cost, medium. If you import small-value goods through the southern border, the duty-free 'de minimis' treatment under 19 U.S.C. 1321 can stop. Executive Order 14227 (March 2, 2025) says that duty-free de minimis treatment "shall cease to be available" for otherwise eligible covered articles when the Secretary of…

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## Sources
- [2025-03729 on federalregister.gov](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/03/06/2025-03729/amendment-to-duties-to-address-the-situation-at-our-southern-border)
- [2025-03729 as published (PDF)](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2025-03-06/pdf/2025-03729.pdf)

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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-03729 (as of 2026-11-04).