quick remainder to all EU residents.... 1 July new €3 customs duty per item

[hazzer]

Quick remainder to all EU residents.... form 1 July 2026 an additional €3 customs duty will apply per item type.....

https://www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2026/0609/1576806-online-shopping-customs-duties-ireland-eu-regulations/

that 1 dollar lot of resistors from AliExpress is just about to get a bit more expensive...

its all in order to "make EU great again....."  ie MEGA. 

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[ftg]

Dem be taxing my megaohms!

But yeah, this will potentially make ordering from LCSC hell.
Aliexpress will invent some mechanism for this. If nothing else, then some EU warehouse thing.
Or "custom collection of parts", "blind box" (add some worthless extra crap to make it a genuine surprise) and so on.

[Monkeh]

But yeah, this will potentially make ordering from LCSC hell.
Aliexpress will invent some mechanism for this.

"Electronic components x719" - one charge.

[hazzer]

u still have time to "fill up" the bits box.....

[Cyclotron]

With all the hoopla about the tariffs and such in the US, other than the increase in prices due to these taxes, its as easy as it ever was to buy from the popular Chineses sites and the same with ebay and other platforms. No cash greedy corporate beast will let friction get in the way of separating you from your money.

[nctnico]

Quick remainder to all EU residents.... form 1 July 2026 an additional €3 customs duty will apply per item type.....

https://www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2026/0609/1576806-online-shopping-customs-duties-ireland-eu-regulations/

that 1 dollar lot of resistors from AliExpress is just about to get a bit more expensive...

Don't worry. Aliexpress already has warehouses within the EU from which they will fullfill the orders. Nothing is going to change for the consumers. The only ones being screwed are Chinese sellers who are now forced to sell through Aliexpress warehouses instead of doing cheap dropshipping.

[themadhippy]

Finally sumfing good from brexit

[Monkeh]

Finally sumfing good from brexit

I'm sure our lot will follow suit shortly.

[elevendroids]

I wonder how this is going to affect <150€ orders from DigiKey/Mouser (currently they add VAT during the checkout) - new rules apply to all non-EU imports, not just from China...

[SiliconWizard]

I thought tariffs were bad?

[Cyclotron]

I thought tariffs were bad?

I believe they are bad in general though there's nuance and reasons for them and taxes. But no one is interested in that.

These days, determining the good or bad nature of the tax comes down to your color of shirt and the color of the shirt of the person proposing or imposing the taxes.

 

[wraper]

Fuck Ursula, and then fuck her again.

[Cyclotron]

Fuck Ursula, and then fuck her again.

 

I don't know why but I think of this character every time I read her name.

[HwAoRrDk]

Finally sumfing good from brexit

Let me update the tally:

Pros: 0 1
Cons: 379

[wraper]

Finally sumfing good from brexit

So far UK did virtually all things for which people voted for brexit to avoid. Your politicians will see that's its bad enough, so will implement a version of their own.

[pcprogrammer]

I have no doubt that Aliexpress will come up with a solution to avoid this stupid tax.

Here in France the government implemented a 2 euro per item tax back in March, but I have not payed it once, and have ordered quite some stuff from Aliexpress since.

The impact of the new tax was a drop in freight flights and with it airport income, so complaints all over the place. 

[bingo600]

My guess (fear) here in DK is that :

1: They (Post DK) will 100% stop all packages (primarily because of #3 below).
2: They will 100% max out on all taxes, aka. 3€ per different item.

3: The scary part -
    They will (are allowed) to add a $23 fee for handling the duty processing, and i even think they are allowed to do that per item line.

So unless China are comming up with some way to prepay the duty , or ship from within EU.
They will prob. succeed in stopping 60..80% of my Ali buys.

[tszaboo]

My guess (fear) here in DK is that :

1: They (Post DK) will 100% stop all packages (primarily because of #3 below).
2: They will 100% max out on all taxes, aka. 3€ per different item.

3: The scary part -
    They will (are allowed) to add a $23 fee for handling the duty processing, and i even think they are allowed to do that per item line.

So unless China are comming up with some way to prepay the duty , or ship from within EU.
They will prob. succeed in stopping 60..80% of my Ali buys.

Yes, that's the real kicker. I wouldn't dare ordering anything with DHL or any other currier for this reason, that is not DDP.
They will slap a payment processing fee, tax on payment processing, and all kinds of extra fees to your orders.
I got a few sample inductors the other day to the office. The parts are ~ 0.1 EUR at Digikey. It was sent as a free sample.
So these scammers of a transportation company figured that the invoice is a lie, and they just invented a value to the parts, and sent us a 47 EUR  bribe to get the parts delivered, 90% of this was their payment fees. They really need to clamp down on this.

[hazzer]

in October 1975, 90% of Icelandic women went on strike to demonstrate their indispensable role in the economy and society and to protest wage discrepancies and unfair employment practices.... and it worked today Iceland has one of the smallest gender pay gaps.....

EU citizens need a strike day where they buy nothing that has a government tax applied....  take back control!   


PS
In Ireland the government announced 8K euro fund to support replacing +13 yr old cars for EVs...
now the same government will take more than 8K in VAT and duty on a new EV......
its all smoke and mirrors.... governments don't have their own money - they tax and borrow it

[pcprogrammer]

My guess (fear) here in DK is that :

1: They (Post DK) will 100% stop all packages (primarily because of #3 below).
2: They will 100% max out on all taxes, aka. 3€ per different item.

3: The scary part -
    They will (are allowed) to add a $23 fee for handling the duty processing, and i even think they are allowed to do that per item line.

So unless China are comming up with some way to prepay the duty , or ship from within EU.
They will prob. succeed in stopping 60..80% of my Ali buys.

For what I have understood of the new tax is that the likes of Aliexpress have to charge their customers this additional tax and fork it over just like is done with the VAT. Only in the case that this has not been done, will the postal service charge you the TAX plus some administrative fee.

My expectation is that Aliexpress will come up with some system that avoids these additional taxes by using European warehouses to ship from, and maybe give you a choice of stuff from China but then with the added 3 euro per unique HS code. Or you just won't see items that have to come directly from China anymore. Like what has been happening for some time now. Someone here on the forum posts a link to an item they can see, but when you try the link you get a 404 page, which means that the item is not available in your region of the world.

[wraper]

IMHO they'll just ship in bulk and do the clearance in bulk as well, then send the items to individual buyers. Which Aliexpress and especially TEMU already do. So this new duty will screw over anyone but those against whom it was supposedly implemented against.

[SiliconWizard]

IMHO they'll just ship in bulk and do the clearance in bulk as well, then send the items to individual buyers. Which Aliexpress and especially TEMU already do. So this new duty will screw over anyone but those against whom it was supposedly implemented against.

Agreed, but I still don't get what kind of benefit this tax was supposed to bring anyway, even theoretically., except extract more money from people to fund stuff that nobody cares about.

At first (when it was first discussed), it looked like it was mostly about limiting the number of very small packages which were not environmentally-friendly, and this part sounded fair enough. The proposed threshold was 20 or 30 euros. They ended up increasing it to 150 euros, and not 150 euros per package, if I got it right, but 150 euros per product category. Insane.

The other argument then became the typical tariff argument: to protect our own industries. Which would again make some sense if that were true. But thing is, most of what people currently buy from China are things that we don't produce anymore in Europe anyway. Even luxury items: LVMH was caught red-handed producing most of their luxury items in China. And, anyway, even with 3 euros more, products are still cheaper when bought directly from China than if they are bought from intermediate resellers.

So all this will trigger is feed more intermediates (that will buy products in bulk to resell them to end consumers) and lower people's purchasing power, absolutely not to revive our industries.

[bingo600]

Agreed, but I still don't get what kind of benefit this tax was supposed to bring anyway, even theoretically., except extract more money from people to fund stuff that nobody cares about.

I heard that the new fee is supposed to pay for a much more serious package inspection at Customs.
They want to be able to check & stop "toxic / unsafe" things from entering EU.

My guess is that they will do that for a year or two, then they will "effectivize" Customs ... AKA. cut back on funding and reroute the $$ into the "black hole".

Sales shipped by Amazon.de (EU) , will increase ... And Bezos will get richer.

[m k]

Counterfeit is an amount issue, but economically not a counterfeiter issue, import is economically not an importer issue either.
But both are entity issues for those who control them.

Big importer is much more controllable.

Here from post,
first class domestic stamp (50 g) is now 3€.
Small (11x32x42 cm, 25 kg) domestic parcel is ~10€.
5 pcs of C5 easy-envelopes (500 g, 3 cm thick, only envelope part includes VAT) are 22.20€.

Somebody must pay the postman.

[artag]

So instead of buying 100 different components and assembling the item with EU labour I should order a preassmbled item and use Chinese labour ? Good job, politicians, good job.