The EU has said it is preparing to impose a €2 flat fee on the billions of low-value packages that flood into the bloc each year, the great majority from China.
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.
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.