On August 4, 2020, US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) published in the Federal Register an interim final rule that amends the CBP regulations to implement new subsection 13031(b)(9)(D) of the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (COBRA), as amended by section 8002 of the Synthetics Trafficking and Overdose Prevention Act of 2018 (STOP Act), which establishes a new fee for processing Inbound Express Mail Service items (Inbound EMS items), initially set as $1 per item. The…
