EU Council gives final green light to new 3 EUR customs fee for small parcels

7 pointsposted 12 hours ago
by Markoff
(consilium.europa.eu)

4 Comments

wolvoleo

2 hours ago

I often order small electronic components from Ali and this will force me to order larger quantities to make it worth it, leading to waste I might not use.

You can order similar within the EU but companies like mouser and RS have huge minimum order amounts which is why I went with ali in the first place.

Markoff

18 minutes ago

yup, these customs rules are clearly targeted against end users while benefiting middlemen who order more pieces

they just want to make consumers to pay more and give more profits to useless middlemen, I was just placing yesterday probably my last order on Ali unless they won't resolve it somehow with big warehouses

dmitrygr

11 hours ago

> The new system will have a positive impact both for the EU budget as well as for national public finances

Will it though...?

Markoff

16 minutes ago

unless Ali resolve this with big warehouses I doubt it will have that big benefit, I can guarantee it will make products much more expensive for consumers EU should be protecting instead of few importers that seem to be protecting instead