{"id":1018434,"date":"2026-07-02T08:58:24","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T03:28:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1018434"},"modified":"2026-07-02T09:50:28","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T04:20:28","slug":"eu-imposes-e3-charge-ends-duty-free-entry-for-low-value-imports-higher-prices-likely-for-shoppers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/02\/eu-imposes-e3-charge-ends-duty-free-entry-for-low-value-imports-higher-prices-likely-for-shoppers\/","title":{"rendered":"EU imposes \u20ac3 charge, ends duty-free entry for low-value imports; higher prices likely for shoppers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Europe on Wednesday took a first step towards curbing what it calls unfair competition from online retailers such as Shein, Temu and AliExpress by imposing a \u20ac3 fee on low-value e-commerce imports from China that previously entered the bloc duty-free. <\/p>\n<p>The move is another setback for platforms that used customs exemptions to sell goods at ultra-low prices, fuelling rapid growth and prompting complaints from retailers and policymakers. The US, their biggest market, ended its &#8220;de minimis&#8221; exemption for imports from China in May and for all imports at the end of August.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Europe on Wednesday took a first step towards curbing what it calls unfair competition from online retailers such as Shein, Temu and AliExpress by imposing a \u20ac3 fee on low-value e-commerce imports from China that previously entered the bloc duty-free. The move is another setback for platforms that used customs exemptions to sell goods at ultra-low prices, fuelling rapid growth and prompting complaints from retailers and policymakers. The US, their biggest market, ended its &#8220;de minimis&#8221; exemption for imports from China in May and for all imports at the end of August.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[83,4,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1018434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-telegraph","category-newspapers","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1018434"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1018463,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018434\/revisions\/1018463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1018434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1018434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1018434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}