{"id":8868,"date":"2025-12-12T17:05:47","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T17:05:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/eu-decides-to-impose-e3-tax-on-small-parcels-to-tackle-chinese-imports\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T17:05:47","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T17:05:47","slug":"eu-decides-to-impose-e3-tax-on-small-parcels-to-tackle-chinese-imports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/eu-decides-to-impose-e3-tax-on-small-parcels-to-tackle-chinese-imports\/","title":{"rendered":"EU decides to impose \u20ac3 tax on small parcels to tackle Chinese imports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<figure class=\"article__media\"> <picture class=\"article__media\">  <\/picture> <noscript>  <\/noscript><figcaption class=\"article__legend\" aria-hidden=\"true\">A customs agent controls packages from China at Bierset airport in Liege, Belgium, September 15, 2025. All small parcels imported into the European Union will be subject to a \u20ac3 euro tax from July 2026, according to a decision taken by EU finance ministers on December 12, 2025.  <span class=\"article__credit\" aria-hidden=\"true\">JOHN THYS \/ AFP<\/span>  <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph  \">EU finance ministers agreed Friday, December 12, to impose a \u20ac3 duty on all small parcels imported into the bloc starting July 1, 2026, to help tackle a flood of cheap imports by the likes of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lemonde.fr\/en\/france\/article\/2025\/11\/05\/france-moves-to-suspend-shein-website_6747143_7.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Shein<\/a> and Temu. The move comes a month after the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lemonde.fr\/en\/economy\/article\/2025\/12\/12\/eu-decides-to-impose-3-tax-on-small-parcels-from-china_6748427_19.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A customs agent controls packages from China at Bierset airport in Liege, Belgium, September 15, 2025. All small parcels imported into the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8868\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}