{"id":8988,"date":"2025-12-14T14:24:47","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T14:24:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/eu-countries-agree-to-tax-cheap-packages-from-july-politico\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T14:24:47","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T14:24:47","slug":"eu-countries-agree-to-tax-cheap-packages-from-july-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/eu-countries-agree-to-tax-cheap-packages-from-july-politico\/","title":{"rendered":"EU countries agree to tax cheap packages from July \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The flood of untaxed and often unsafe goods prompted the European Commission to propose a temporary solution for the packages under \u20ac150 <a href=\"https:\/\/pro.politico.eu\/news\/208308\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a month ago<\/a>. This &#8220;de minimis&#8221; rule allows exporters like Shein and Temu to send products directly to consumers, often bypassing scrutiny.<\/p>\n<p>The EU has already received more packages in the first nine months of 2025 than in the entire previous year, when the counter hit 4.6 billion.<\/p>\n<p>French Finance Minister Roland Lescure called it \u201ca literal invasion of parcels in Europe last year,\u201d which would have hit \u201c7, 8, 9 billion in the coming years&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/eu-countries-agree-tax-cheap-packages-from-july\/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&#038;utm_medium=RSS&#038;utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The flood of untaxed and often unsafe goods prompted the European Commission to propose a temporary solution for the packages under \u20ac150&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":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8988","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=8988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8988\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}