{"id":441838,"date":"2025-12-12T15:12:54","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T14:12:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2025\/12\/12\/dal-primo-luglio-dazi-di-3-euro-sui-pacchi-sotto-i-150-euro-in-arrivo-dai-paesi-extra-ue\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T16:56:51","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T15:56:51","slug":"from-1-july-e3-duties-on-parcels-under-e150-arriving-from-non-eu-countries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2025\/12\/12\/from-1-july-e3-duties-on-parcels-under-e150-arriving-from-non-eu-countries\/","title":{"rendered":"From 1 July \u20ac3  duties on parcels under \u20ac150 arriving from non-EU countries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brussels &#8211; Online shopping: the announced restrictions on<strong> parcels worth less than \u20ac150 are set to come into effect. From 1 July 2026, a&nbsp;<\/strong><span style=\"margin: 0px;padding: 0px\"><strong>\u20ac3 duty will apply across the EU&nbsp;<\/strong>to<\/span>&nbsp;every product purchased online and arriving from non-EU countries.&nbsp;The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2025\/11\/13\/e-commerce-eu-breakthrough-parcels-under-e150-will-also-be-taxed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">decision in principle was already made last month<\/a>, but the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/council-eu\/configurations\/ecofin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ecofin<\/a> meeting today (12 December) makes it operational by setting the criteria.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"HwtZe\" lang=\"en\"><span class=\"jCAhz ChMk0b\"><span class=\"ryNqvb\">The 3\u20ac&nbsp;rate will&nbsp;<span style=\"margin: 0px;padding: 0px\">apply to all goods entering the EU for which non-EU sellers are registered with the EU&#8217;s<a href=\"https:\/\/vat-one-stop-shop.ec.europa.eu\/index_en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&nbsp;one-stop shop for imports&nbsp;<\/a><\/span>&nbsp;(IOSS) for value-added tax purposes.<\/span><\/span> <span class=\"jCAhz ChMk0b\"><span class=\"ryNqvb\">This &#8220;accounts for 93 per cent of all e-commerce flows to the EU,&#8221; Brussels points out.<\/span><\/span><\/span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The measure is not intended to be an anti-China tool. Still, the bulk of the packages arrive from the People&#8217;s Republic, and one of the fears around the table is that many goods are sold in the single market at below-cost prices to avoid paying the tariffs imposed on parcels worth more than \u20ac150. <span class=\"HwtZe\" lang=\"en\"><span class=\"jCAhz ChMk0b\"><span class=\"ryNqvb\">According to the European Commission,&nbsp;<strong>in 2024, 91 per cent of all e-commerce shipments worth less than \u20ac150 came from China<\/strong>, and EU estimates show that <strong>up to 65 per cent of small parcels entering the EU are being underpriced to avoid import duties<\/strong>.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"lRu31\" dir=\"ltr\"><span class=\"HwtZe\" lang=\"en\"><span class=\"jCAhz JpY6Fd\"><span class=\"ryNqvb\"><span class=\"jCAhz ChMk0b\">The Trade Commissioner, <strong>Maro\u0161 \u0160ef\u010dovi\u010d<\/strong>, rejoices: &#8220;The decision on customs duties for small parcels arriving in the EU is important to ensure fair competition at our borders in today&#8217;s era of e-commerce.&#8221; For \u0160ef\u010dovi\u010d, &#8220;with the rapid expansion of e-commerce, the world is changing rapidly, and we need the right tools to keep up.&#8221;<\/span><\/span><span class=\"jCAhz ChMk0b\"><span class=\"ryNqvb\"><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">The final decision comes at the end of a five-year legislative process. <span class=\"HwtZe\" lang=\"en\"><span class=\"jCAhz ChMk0b\"><span class=\"ryNqvb\">The Commission proposed withdrawing the exemption from customs duties for parcels valued at less than \u20ac150 in May 2023 as part of the customs reform. The initial proposal for revocation envisaged an application from mid-2028. The Council adopted the withdrawal of the exemption on 13 November 2025 and requested that the measure be applied as early as 2026. <span lang=\"en\" class=\"HwtZe\"><span class=\"jCAhz ChMk0b\"><span class=\"ryNqvb\"> It will therefore start on<\/span><\/span><\/span>&nbsp;1 July next year.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The final decision taken by Ecofin. Rejoices \u0160ef\u010dovi\u010d: &#8220;The measure for small parcels coming into the EU is important to ensure fair competition&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":441820,"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","show_comment_section":"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":[26430,31257,25916,26598,27023,26131],"class_list":["post-441838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-net-tech-en","tag-cina-en","tag-dazi-en","tag-e-commerce-en","tag-internet-en-2"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441838","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=441838"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":441839,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441838\/revisions\/441839"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/441820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=441838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=441838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=441838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}