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Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick says in prepared testimony at a fiscal year 2026 budget hearing before the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice and Science that the Trump administration was imposing tariffs and ending loopholes, having ended the de minimis loophole in April which allowed foreign companies to avoid paying tariffs to ship small shipments into America completely undercutting and undermining American small businesses, while new export controls were protecting cutting edge technologies and finally protecting critical industries and American innovation, with the Bureau of Industry and Security working with partners in the Department of Justice securing 22 criminal convictions 32 arrests 38 indictments 231 detentions and seizing goods of $185.5 million and additional seizures of another $40 million.