U.S. Customs and Border Protection has expanded its list of qualified parties that can collect and remit duties for postal shipments entering the country, per a Jan. 14 agency bulletin.
DHL eCommerce, DHL Global Forwarding, Seko Logistics and GHY eBiz have joined the list of qualified third parties, which now includes 39 logistics and customs clearance providers. CBP said it will maintain an updated list on its website.
For DHL, the certification will support the company’s “efforts to help customers navigate rising cross-border volumes and increasingly complex U.S. trade requirements, especially for smaller parcels,” according to a DHL statement emailed to Supply Chain Dive.
“As a part of this, specifically, DHL Global Forwarding is integrating the capability into its new Consolidated Clearance Service for U.S. imports, which streamlines processing by consolidating multiple shipments under a single entry, improving efficiency, compliance, and flexibility across our customers’ diverse shipping needs,” DHL said.
The new members enable more options for international mail carriers — which many smaller e-commerce businesses rely on for cross-border shipping — to comply with U.S. import rules after the Trump administration eliminated the de minimis exemption in August 2025.
Since the end of de minimis, postal packages are assessed either a duty equal to International Emergency Economic Powers Act tariffs for the country of origin or a flat fee ranging from $80 to $200 based on the IEEPA rate, according to CBP. The latter approach will no longer be applicable starting Feb. 28.
Duties owed can be remitted either by a qualified party from the CBP’s approved list or the carrier themselves, but many mail carriers had trouble adjusting in the early stages of the exemption’s end. Several temporarily suspended U.S.-bound shipments before either tapping into qualified parties or launching in-house services to comply with the change.
Despite its importance for some shippers, de minimis postal volume was in a state of decline prior to the exemption’s end. In 2020, CBP handled 264.1 million de minimis postal shipments, per the agency’s website. That figure fell sharply the following five years, reaching 68.6 million in 2025.
