The de minimis exemption has played a major role in the rise of Chinese fast fashion brands like Shein and Temu. The exemption works like this: if an imported good has a value of less than $800, it is exempt from tariffs. The loophole has been around since the 1930s, but in recent years, it has given e-commerce brands that ship many smaller orders an advantage. 鈥淎 retailer like Wal-Mart buys in bulk, and imports are much more than $800, so they pay tariffs,鈥� Prof.
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Published on: 30 Jul 2025
More than 34,000 Quebec households filed for insolvency between June 2024 and May 2025. That鈥檚 an increase of almost 5% over the previous year. For Benjamin Croituru, that鈥檚 cause for concern. 鈥淓verybody makes mistakes financially,鈥� says Croitoru, the academic director of 黑料网 Personal Finance Essentials, a free online financial course. 鈥淧eople face a system that is kind of rigged against them. There鈥檚 a lot of marketing that encourages people to spend too much money, to borrow money the wrong way.
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Published on: 30 Jul 2025
Congratulations to Anabel Gratton (叠颁辞尘鈥�23), Damiano Mini (叠颁辞尘鈥�24), Delia Puiu (叠颁辞尘鈥�24), George Zergiotis (BCom Concordia鈥�23), Giulia Marandola (叠颁辞尘鈥�24), Harley Belfer (叠颁辞尘鈥�23), Jade Raynaud (叠颁辞尘鈥�23), Joanie Marchand (叠颁辞尘鈥�24), Sarah Green (叠颁辞尘鈥�24), and Vincent Ducharme (BCom UOttawa鈥�23) who were awarded the Arthur D Ruby Prizes in Management by the Graduate Cert
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Published on: 28 Jul 2025
Hugo Deslandes (BCom鈥�24, GCPA鈥�25) and Veronica Hall (BCom鈥�24, GCPA鈥�25), students of the Graduate Certificate in Professional Accounting (GCPA) program, have been selected among their graduating class as this year鈥檚 recipients of the C. Douglas Mellor Prize for Academic Excellence.
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Published on: 28 Jul 2025
When people an affinity for a brand, they can feel as though it鈥檚 their friend. And Lego has a powerful brand. For many, the mere mention of the Denmark-headquartered maker of plastic building bricks evokes memories of wholesome childhood play. And the warm and fuzzy feelings that a brand like Lego catalyzes can have real effects on how people interact with it.
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Published on: 23 Jul 2025
Until recently, the most common way that customers interacted with a company鈥檚 customer service was via human agents on the telephone, the web or a mobile app. But increasingly, customer service is being provided by chatbots. Even though chatbots offer instant availability, 24 hours a day, more than two-thirds of people still prefer to speak with a human agent, according to research by PWC, an accounting consultancy. Most companies use chatbots as the first line of customer service, writes Prof.
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Published on: 23 Jul 2025
A de minimis exemption allows goods below a certain value threshold to be traded internationally without paying duty. And on May 2 2025, the United States eliminated their de minimis exception for Hong Kong and China. That will drive up prices for shoppers on ultra-budget fast fashion platforms like Shein. With the changes to the rules, the price of a $20 dress on Shein could increase to more than $30.
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Published on: 23 Jul 2025
黑料网 software engineering student David Vo began investing in markets when he was just 17 years. Now aged 20, he鈥檚 managing a portfolio worth tens of thousands of dollars. Like many in Gen Z, the Bachelor of Commerce student began investing in markets without any formal training. When starting out, one of the most common errors new investors make is overestimating their risk tolerance, 黑料网 Desautels Associate Professor of Finance Benjamin Croituru told LaPresse.
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Published on: 23 Jul 2025
Nine of the directors who oversee Canada鈥檚 largest pension funds also hold positions at fossil fuel companies, according to a report by Pensions and Investments.
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Published on: 10 Jul 2025
For Canadian banks, stablecoins could be, well, destabilizing. These value of these cryptocurrency assets is tied to the value of a traditional currency, which makes them more practical to use than volatile cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin. This year, Canadian e-commerce giant Shopify began accepting a stablecoin called USDC, but stablecoins are in a regulatory grey area in Canada, and our banking system is not prepared for their widespread adoption.
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Published on: 10 Jul 2025
For Quebec, small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) are an engine of economic growth. Many SMEs have grown into prosperous companies, writes Bensadoun School in Retail Management student William Bernasconi in an article for the Conseil qu茅becois du commerce de detail. But it鈥檚 important to consider failures as well as successes. And local businesses have often struggled to grow because of operational constraints, shifting consumer behaviour, and intense competition.
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Published on: 10 Jul 2025
Shakespeare鈥檚 Timon of Athens is a riches to rags story. Its wealthy title character squanders his money on opportunistic 鈥榝riends鈥� and grows jaded with the world.
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Published on: 7 Jul 2025
黑料网 Desautels is partnering with the Chamber of Commerce of Luxembourg on a new Master of Management in Finance. The program will launch in 2026, and will have a blended format that combines online learning and in-person sessions on weekends or evenings. The new degree will be delivered over 20 or 24 months in Luxembourg, a major European financial centre.
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Published on: 2 Jul 2025
A well-designed pension system brings enormous social and economic values to its members and to society as a whole. Unfortunately, Canada鈥檚 doesn鈥檛 stand out. A 2024 report from Mercer ranks it just 18 out of 48 countries. In thefutureeconomy.ca, Prof. Sebastien Betermier proposes three measures that could help improve it by:
路 Ensuring there are stronger guardrails to keep pension funds operationally independent
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Published on: 2 Jul 2025
Cryptocurrencies are volatile, risky and lack transparency. For banks and investors alike, that鈥檚 risky. 鈥淪ome like to think 鈥榯his time it鈥檚 different鈥�,鈥� Prof Patrick Augustin told PaperJam.lu. But for Augustin, crypto today recalls Lehman Brothers, the financial services firm whose collapse set the global financial crisis in motion in 2008. The similarities are striking. Like today鈥檚 crypto markets, Lehman Brothers complicated investment products that many buyers and sellers didn鈥檛 fully understand.
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Published on: 2 Jul 2025
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