{"id":426531,"date":"2025-05-13T11:49:58","date_gmt":"2025-05-13T09:49:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2025\/05\/13\/e-commerce-francia-italia-dazi-150-euro\/"},"modified":"2025-05-13T12:40:52","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T10:40:52","slug":"e-commerce-france-and-italy-support-tariffs-on-products-under-150-euros","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2025\/05\/13\/e-commerce-france-and-italy-support-tariffs-on-products-under-150-euros\/","title":{"rendered":"E-commerce: France and Italy support tariffs on products under 150 euros"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brussels – The European Commission proceeds according to intentions<\/a>\u00a0on the stop to customs\u00a0exemption on imports under 150 euros.\u00a0<\/strong>France and Italy approve\u00a0the EU executive’s proposed change to the online shopping regime. The debate in the Ecofin Council sees the intervention of just four countries (Spain, Ireland, France, and Italy). Still, it serves the von der Leyen team to cash in on the full support of two of the EU’s major economies on harmonizing e-commerce rules.<\/p>\n

At the beginning of\u00a0this year, the von der Leyen team proposed removing the customs exemption on\u00a0imported goods worth less than 150 euros to counter the entry of products considered dangerous to health and safety. “The initiative goes in the right direction<\/strong>,” said Eric Lombard<\/strong>, France’s finance minister, noting that “VAT should be paid even under 150 euros” and, therefore, the rules on the matter should not be touched. What should be reviewed, however, is the tariff exemption. “The Commission must eliminate the 150-euro threshold,” so it is good that the EU executive’s proposal “focuses on small parcels.”<\/p>\n

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Economy Minister Giancarlo Giorgetti during the public session of the Ecofin Council proceedings [Brussels, May 13, 2025]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A stance that also Economy Minister Giancarlo Giorgetti <\/strong>supports.<\/strong>\u00a0He cautions that in Europe,\u00a0“there is an invasion of cheap goods, especially from Asia,” which poses risks and pitfalls for consumers and others,\u00a0referring to the many online purchases through well-known and lesser-known sites and portals that bring untaxed goods through the single market.\u00a0There is a need to move forward in a decisive and European manner to discourage the production of harmful and potentially harmful goods. “The one-stop-shop can help<\/strong>” in this regard, the Treasury Minister said, convinced of the usefulness of the\u00a0electronic tax return system.<\/a><\/p>\n

Good news for the Commission also comes from Ireland, a traditionally tax-conscious country jealous of its\u00a0less stringent tax and levy regime. Although with “concerns about the practical implementation of measures” to better regulate the e-commerce sector, Ireland’s finance minister, Paschal Donohoe<\/strong>, does not veto: “We are aware that the economy is increasingly digital and needs to be managed.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Support for the European Commission’s proposal at the Ecofin Council proceedings. Paris: “Eliminate the threshold.” Giorgetti: “Invaded by cheap goods.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":236615,"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":[25705,25710],"tags":[30670,31214,26598,27023,27557,25829,29573],"class_list":["post-426531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-net-tech-en","tag-acquisti-on-line-en","tag-dazi-en","tag-e-commerce-en","tag-ecofin-en-2","tag-giancarlo-giorgetti-en","tag-iva-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426531","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=426531"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":426553,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426531\/revisions\/426553"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}