{"id":417991,"date":"2025-02-05T13:04:29","date_gmt":"2025-02-05T12:04:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2025\/02\/05\/e-commerce-ue-esenzione-dazi-sotto-150-e\/"},"modified":"2025-02-05T15:25:03","modified_gmt":"2025-02-05T14:25:03","slug":"e-commerce-eu-seeks-to-end-duty-exemption-on-products-under-150-euros-for-consumer-safety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2025\/02\/05\/e-commerce-eu-seeks-to-end-duty-exemption-on-products-under-150-euros-for-consumer-safety\/","title":{"rendered":"E-commerce: EU seeks to end duty exemption on products under 150 euros for consumer safety"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brussels – People shop\u00a0online, but goods come in via land, and the European Commission wants to tighten regulations\u00a0against dangerous products delivered to\u00a0homes from the Internet. It does so in\u00a0a communication<\/a>\u00a0urging\u00a0a customs reform that involves the removal of\u00a0duty exemptions for parcels worth less than 150 euros<\/strong> and strengthening control capabilities, such as better data sharing and risk assessment. The problem, we learn, is actually with very low-priced products<\/strong>, as is often the case with those from Temu and Shein<\/strong>, which are the ones that may pose the most significant\u00a0risks to consumers.<\/p>\n

That’s not the end of it: it also calls for better data exchange, sweeping border investigations, and the\u00a0use of digital tools<\/strong> to better detect potentially non-compliant products.<\/p>\n

It is not the end of the free movement of goods but rather a shift in\u00a0paradigm\u00a0in the name of consumer safety.\u00a0 Consumer Protection Commissioner Michael McGrath<\/strong>\u00a0explains that the problem is e-commerce growth:\u00a0“Three out of four Europeans shop online regularly. Yet the surge of imported goods can pose threats<\/strong> to the rights of European consumers and their safety.”<\/p>\n

The numbers indicate that last year, around 4.6 billion low-value consignments —<\/strong>goods worth up to\u00a0\u20ac150 — entered the EU market —\u00a012 million items per day.\u00a0It is twice as many as in 2023 and three times as many as in 2022. “Many of these goods were\u00a0found to be non-compliant with European legislation,” McGrath said. The Commission wants to contrast the increasing number of\u00a0harmful products entering the EU. Against this backdrop,\u00a0six Member States were responsible for supervising 89% of directly imported goods sold online,<\/strong><\/span><\/span>\u00a0straining\u00a0customs authorities.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\"European<\/a>The European Commission intends to step up\u00a0controls for certain operators, goods, or trade flows on a rolling basis in the light of the risk analysis. In this regard, e-commerce is the primary\u00a0suspect. “The rise in e-commerce imports to the EU market has brought many challenges,<\/strong>” said Executive Vice President for Technological Sovereignty, Security and Democracy, Henna Virkkunen<\/strong>. The goal, she explains, is “to make sure citizens and businesses can continue to enjoy the many benefits of online shopping while minimizing the risks of dangerous products that threaten the health and safety of consumers.”<\/p>\n

The EU is ready to fine, the commissioner\u00a0admits, with penalties that, in any case, “should reflect cases of systematic non-compliance.” The main objective remains to seize\u00a0potentially dangerous goods through “the removal of non-compliant goods from the market.”<\/p>\n

The EU Commission will complete its assessments for any potential new measures within a year. <\/strong>Meanwhile,\u00a0The Commission invited\u00a0Parliament and the Council\u00a0to consider further measures, such as a non-discriminatory handling fee — to be paid by retailers or platforms —\u00a0on e-commerce items imported in the EU directly to consumers and to address the scaling costs of supervising compliance of billions of such consignments with EU rules.\u00a0In any case, “platforms are covered by the Digital Services Act,” Virkkunen said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Too many packages and too dangerous. The European Commission wants a consumer-friendly e-commerce reform<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":417984,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"format":"standard","override":[{"template":"1","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","disable_ad":"0","subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25727],"tags":[25982,26999,27023,29984,26131,30370,25745],"class_list":["post-417991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-spotlight","tag-consumers-en","tag-dogane-en","tag-e-commerce-en","tag-henna-virkkunen-en","tag-internet-en-2","tag-michael-mcgrath-en","tag-safety-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=417991"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":418008,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417991\/revisions\/418008"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/417984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}