BRUSSELS (CN) — Starting in July, Europeans ordering a dress and lipstick from Shein will pay at least 6 euros ($7) in new customs duties — 3 euros for the clothing, 3 euros for the cosmetics — as the EU ends a decades-old loophole that let cheap goods from China flood European markets duty-free.
EU finance ministers on Friday formally scrapped a 150-euro threshold that allowed low-value items to enter Europe without paying customs duties. The move targets platforms like Temu, Shein and AliExpress that have exploited the loophole.
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