A federal trade court on Monday declined, for now, to block President Donald Trump’s decision to end a longstanding tariff exemption for low-value packages shipped to the United States, known as de minimis imports.
A three-judge panel on the U.S. Court of International Trade ruled that the scope of the lawsuit, brought by auto parts retailer Detroit Axle, is already covered by another ongoing case challenging many of Trump’s tariffs.
In that case, known as V.O.S. Selections v. Trump, the panel ruled against the Trump administration in late May, striking down Trump’s sweeping “reciprocal” tariffs and other duties he had imposed.
But the decision was quickly paused by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, keeping Trump’s tariffs in place while the legal battle plays out.
As a result, “This court has already granted, and the Federal Circuit subsequently stayed, all relief Axle requests,” the lower-court panel wrote in Monday’s ruling.
