I’m quite amazed at the amount of hate in this thread. They were using a tax loophole to do fiscal optimization and anti competitive practice, now they won’t be able to. All this ultra liberalism is really ridiculous.
Lol. “Hey, so people are buying cheaper overseas goods, what should we do to sway them to buy local stuff? Create local factories to produce these things within the union? Lower VAT on locally produced goods? Naaah, let’s add another tax on top of existing ones.” Fucking parasites.
Yeah, it’s the VAT preventing the EU from producing this so cheaply…
Well its pretty hard to compete with local factories if they can produce it with significantly lower costs due to terrible worker conditions and child labor
No, people shouldnt buy these things locally, they should just stop buying tons of bullshit they dont need from china.
I was wondering how they were going to protect intermediaries from the growth of desintermediation platforms were consumers buy things from the factories or just the next link on the chain down from that.
Because intermediaries are the ones making lots of money importing the same stuff as people are now buying direct, putting a label on it, and selling it locally for at least 3x the price and their business model is threatened by consumers buying directly from the places were all the factories are.
Mind you, I’m all for less stuff being made in China and more in Europe, I just don’t think the Commission is doing this for that reason, since historically they tend to do what’s best for “business” and a lot of “business” in Europe is just being a brand for junk made in China or some other non-European country with cheap labour.
This is the best news all year.
Hooray, things are going to be more expensive!
Did you care to read the article? There’s a real cost involved in handling these packages that is not being paid by customers nor by companies, but by the post services. I’m all for moving these costs to the people actually doing the buying. Bulk purchases are jot affected by this so things in general are not getting more expensive with this, but only individual deliveries.
I did not, actually, because it’s behind a paywall. I’ve linked and read another one in the comments but it fails to mention about post offices and says the money is going to customs.
No it just mean more taxes, instead of increasing the EU production.
Trump bottled this.
Well done EU.This oligarchy only knows to rise taxes. One more time that will take a part of those taxes for their own privileges
Taking issue with a tax on cheap Chinese goods is an interesting hill to die on
