Industry News

E-commerce retailers and logistics providers are scrambling to comply with new European Union customs rules and fees, effective Wednesday, aimed at addressing concerns over tariff fairness, domestic manufacturing, and product safety associated with a wave of low-value imports entering the bloc through parcel channels. Each B2C parcel entering the EU will be subject to a flat 3 euro ($3.41) charge per product category (e.g. two T-shirts=one item; a T-shirt and a collared shirt= two items, or 6 euros) within a parcel. “If there’s 10 million parcels B2C parcels a day going into a country like the Netherlands and there’s two SKUs on average per package, that’s $60 million in revenue for the country in a single day.