E-commerce between EU and "Third Countries"
Posted: Wed Mar 25, 2026 8:31 pm
New regulations of customs clearance for importation from "Third Countries" into the EC are coming by 1st of July 2026. What will be to expect?
1. The duty free limit of € 150 per each shipment will be abandoned. Each parcel will be charged by presumably about 15%. This is from the first € of value. This is also concerning importations from the UK.
2. Presumably by November 2026 a "Handling Fee" of about 5 € for each parcel will come on top of this.
3. VAT will be charged further on like it has been up till now. (For Germany this is 19%. Some countries charge less, the most even more, up to 25%.) New is, that this will be conrolled more efficiently, and will be charged fully on small parcels too.
This has consequences for the selling and shipment of harmonicas, parts, supplies and equipment too, even for CDs, be it from the UK (e.g. Brendan's home made stuff) or from China (e.g. Easttop, Kongsheng, JDR), Japan (Suzuki, Tombo), Korea (Dabell) or US (e.g. Dr. Antaki, Jason Ricci, Greg Heuman etc) and other.
The new regulations are especially important for so called "dropshipers". That is for instance, when Brendan sells harmonicas which are directly shipped from Easttop or Kongsheng to the customer like it often had been in the last years.
All in all, we can expect a significant increase of costs for merchandise which is sold and shipped from the UK or e.g. China e.al. into the EC.
And I would recommend to Brendan to keep this in mind, when calculating the prices of harmonicas etc, and when organizing his online shop for customers within the EC.
Here is some more information about this theme. It is in German. And it refers to online shops which operate from inside the EC. But you may find a translator for this, or even some original information in English which refers specifically to online shops and dropshipers within the UK. The main content of those new regulations I have already written above.
https://procware.de/eu-schafft-150e-zol ... ps-wissen/
And after all: Let us give thanks to TEMU and SHEIN and alike for those new regulations.
Their aggressive sales policy and business conduct most likely seems to be the cause for this shit.
1. The duty free limit of € 150 per each shipment will be abandoned. Each parcel will be charged by presumably about 15%. This is from the first € of value. This is also concerning importations from the UK.
2. Presumably by November 2026 a "Handling Fee" of about 5 € for each parcel will come on top of this.
3. VAT will be charged further on like it has been up till now. (For Germany this is 19%. Some countries charge less, the most even more, up to 25%.) New is, that this will be conrolled more efficiently, and will be charged fully on small parcels too.
This has consequences for the selling and shipment of harmonicas, parts, supplies and equipment too, even for CDs, be it from the UK (e.g. Brendan's home made stuff) or from China (e.g. Easttop, Kongsheng, JDR), Japan (Suzuki, Tombo), Korea (Dabell) or US (e.g. Dr. Antaki, Jason Ricci, Greg Heuman etc) and other.
The new regulations are especially important for so called "dropshipers". That is for instance, when Brendan sells harmonicas which are directly shipped from Easttop or Kongsheng to the customer like it often had been in the last years.
All in all, we can expect a significant increase of costs for merchandise which is sold and shipped from the UK or e.g. China e.al. into the EC.
And I would recommend to Brendan to keep this in mind, when calculating the prices of harmonicas etc, and when organizing his online shop for customers within the EC.Here is some more information about this theme. It is in German. And it refers to online shops which operate from inside the EC. But you may find a translator for this, or even some original information in English which refers specifically to online shops and dropshipers within the UK. The main content of those new regulations I have already written above.
https://procware.de/eu-schafft-150e-zol ... ps-wissen/
And after all: Let us give thanks to TEMU and SHEIN and alike for those new regulations.
Their aggressive sales policy and business conduct most likely seems to be the cause for this shit.