I would’ve paid over 1000€ if I’ve purchased the same stuff locally, still ain’t going to happen.
Comment on Why do I have to pay tariffs for importing the following stuff into the EU now?
slazer2au@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Because a government official convinced a working group that it needs to happen.
Welcome to the backwards slide of international trade that the American idiots voted for twice.
TactMerc@retrofed.com 7 hours ago
slazer2au@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Youre complaining you aren’t getting enough of a discount?
TactMerc@retrofed.com 7 hours ago
I’m importing most of this from Japan, where the prices are lower than in the EU. The gripe I have are tariffs before deivery (unless I book a flight to Japan buying this stuff in store, packing all of that into luggage on a return flight home) even then, is that still duty free?
slazer2au@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Maybe depends if you think you will get your luggage checked at the airport.
Strider@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Well, there’s mostly temu and AliExpress to blame for that. They gamed the system, now the rules got changed.
Sucks for me too but in general I agree it’s not okay to flood out customs over the threshold to (literally) ship garbage into the EU.
ekky@sopuli.xyz 5 hours ago
It’s sad to see that we cannot have a system based on mutual respect. Someone will game the system which leads to heavily restrictive new rules for everybody. :(
See also Radio Controlled crafts, AI (old definition, screw LLM and genAI), etc.
HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 2 hours ago
The issue is more manufacturing and trade policy.
China is hitting a point where its economy is going to import natural resources. With that happening, Europe doesn’t produce anything of significant value to compensate for Chinese manufactured goods. So, it is increasing tariffs to protect local industry. Closing the de minimus allowance is part of it.