I think a flat fee is the only way to go since these sellers tend to lie on the value of the content anyway. If you put a % of the value as a fee, everything package will have like a €0,07 value all of sudden. We need to go back to having physical stores who make a profit on cheap stuff because they import by the 1000 instead of the untrustworthy crop you can buy from China. I’m guilty of ordering from there too, but it’s really starting to undermine us.
2€ seems fair though?
The local postal service will slap a €10 handling charge on top of that
Article says the sender would have to pay the fee.
Which will still get passed down to the consumer.
Which will raise the ridiculously low prices of temu, in order to stop ultra fast fashion, which is a good thing.
In 2024, 4.6 billion such packages entered the EU - more than 145 per second - with 91% originating in China. The EU expects the numbers to rise.
Holy mackerel!
Addition:
Data released by WorldACD for the week ending 11 May (week 19), shows that airfreight volumes from China and Hong Kong to the US declined by 10% compared with week 18, which had already suffered a 14% decline on a week earlier.
"Year-on-year volumes from China and Hong Kong to North America were down 27% in week 19, a fourth week of double-digit percentage decline,” the data provider said.
Week 19 was the first full week since the US ended the de minimis loophole for China that had allowed e-commerce packages to enter the country duty-free and with minimal customs scrutiny.
Maybe I am mistaken, but reducing this air cargo for these small packages is also good for the environment it seems, it’s sort of “de-growth”?
As long as China is considered to be a developing county, which they very much want to stay even as a word leading superpower, everyone else subsidieses these packages. I think it is called the “terminal dues” rate which is set by the UPU.
