Amit Khandelwal quoted in Time: "An Obscure Trade Provision May Be Driving U.S. Factory Closures"
EGC affiliate Amit Khandelwal is quoted in a Time article exploring the effects of de minimus trade provisions on American manufacturing.
Time
March 24, 2025
...Avoiding de minimis saves importers money in other ways, says Amit Khandelwal, a Yale economics professor who recently co-authored a paper on what would happen if de minimis went away. Importers who don’t have the benefit of de minimis have to go through customs paperwork and logistics challenges that can increase the price of a package by as much as $20 apiece, which significantly raises costs.
Still, because of the cost of labor and materials overseas, Chinese and other manufacturers may still be able to make cheaper goods than those made in the U.S., Khandelwal says. “Domestic producers claim they will benefit from the end of de minimis,” he says. “I’m not so sure.”