Trump bottled this.
Well done EU.This is the best news all year.
Any low cost item, though?
What about my 20ct LEDs? Or the 2.50 ESP32?
It’s per-package. As long as you order multiple at once, you’re good.
How is „per package“ defined? Per shipper? Per order? Per seller? How about one shipment that includes items for multiple people that are split in a local warehouse and resend?
I’d assume it’s per physical package entering the EU. The chinese sellers have been sending many small packages to go below tax limits, so they’ll probably have to change strategy.
I guess that depends on the country. In Germany it is the opposite, because the limit is 0€, so they send them in big „packages“ (actually one container at a time) and distribute it in their own distribution center from inside the country.
That’s a sacrifice I’m willing to accept if it slows down people buying stuff mindlessly. Your 20ct LEDs delivery is being subsidised by European post services. Now it won’t.
Absolutely! I also love access to small, cheap electronic bits for my projects, and at the same time I’m all for protecting our postal services. A 2€ per package surcharge doesn’t practically change anything on the economy side. Temu already expects a minimum purchase of something like 20€.
My small concern with this is how it will be applied/processed by the carriers. I hope it doesn’t end up like the customs/VAT on larger packages, where they charge 10-20€ for customs clearance. But now that I write it down, for me, even that isn’t a complete blocking factor. I’d probably spend more time comparing the value of ordering direct vs from a local reseller, which is exactly the goal.
No it just mean more taxes, instead of increasing the EU production.
Hooray, things are going to be more expensive!
Did you care to read the article? There’s a real cost involved in handling these packages that is not being paid by customers nor by companies, but by the post services. I’m all for moving these costs to the people actually doing the buying. Bulk purchases are jot affected by this so things in general are not getting more expensive with this, but only individual deliveries.
I did not, actually, because it’s behind a paywall. I’ve linked and read another one in the comments but it fails to mention about post offices and says the money is going to customs.
Lol. “Hey, so people are buying cheaper overseas goods, what should we do to sway them to buy local stuff? Create local factories to produce these things within the union? Lower VAT on locally produced goods? Naaah, let’s add another tax on top of existing ones.” Fucking parasites.
Well its pretty hard to compete with local factories if they can produce it with significantly lower costs due to terrible worker conditions and child labor
Yeah, it’s the VAT preventing the EU from producing this so cheaply…
Taxing to death is not the answer. Even Trump with its ‘liberation day’ knows what’s needed is to re-localize the actual production and that taxing importation to death is only a mean to that end. Save in the EU, I suppose…
It’s so tiring.
trump wants relocation of manufacturing but how many Americans or Europeans want to work in a factory making 20 cent trinkets all day?
most countries try to move up the value chain
trump wants relocation of manufacturing but how many Americans or Europeans want to work in a factory making 20 cent trinkets all day?
None, true that.
The thing is that most of those ‘MAGA’ or ‘MEUGA’ jobs will be automatized/robotized and even less people will be happy about not having a job at all than having a poorly paid one. But it’s coming whether we want it or not. The only unknown is how fast?
This oligarchy only knows to rise taxes. One more time that will take a part of those taxes for their own privileges
