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Since 2000, certain African countries had duty-free access to the US market for a raft of goods including clothing and textiles, cocoa products and wine, as well as crude oil.

De minimis allows goods and packages worth less than $800 to come into the U.S. duty-free, skipping out on fees typically collected by customs.

They are building sprawling factories in industrial parks such as Hofusan, in the border state of Nuevo León, in order to send their products duty-free to Texas, 125 miles away.

The U.S. imports more than $900 billion of products from Canada and Mexico, and a 25% tariff is huge given that goods have crossed North American borders duty-free for many years.

Southern California apparel companies have for years been sending clothes to be sewn and finished in Mexico, duty-free.