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Yannis Tan

China’s “lingerie capital” Lianyungang, once a thriving farming community in Jiangsu province, has enjoyed a meteoric rise fuelled by a US tariff exemption known as the “de minimis” rule.
However, US president-elect Donald Trump has promised to end the exemption some lawmakers have labelled a “loophole”.
Factory owners in Lianyungang have expressed fear their businesses will suffer if he does, considering their main market is in North America.


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Lianyungang in China’s eastern Jiangsu province has enjoyed years of tariff exemptions because of the ‘de minimis’ US policy


Lianyungang in China’s eastern Jiangsu province has enjoyed years of tariff exemptions because of the ‘de minimis’ US policy.


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Lianyungang in China’s eastern Jiangsu province has enjoyed years of tariff exemptions because of the ‘de minimis’ US policy