Brussels (EFE).- The European Commission proposed this Wednesday to eliminate the exception that allows imports to the EU with a value of less than 150 euros not to pay customs duties, a measure whose objective is to fight fraud since half of these shipments are undervalued to avoid the tax.
The Community Executive explained that this “abolition” will cause “a tariff to be applied to each product sold online” towards the EU, and defended that “the elimination of this threshold will help to tackle fraud due to underestimation of goods that enter” the block, and it will also “reduce the incentives for sellers to break up their shipments into smaller packages to take advantage of the exception.”
The measure is part of the “most ambitious and extensive” reform of the Customs Union since this project was launched in 1968 and with which Brussels also proposes creating an EU Customs Authority to centralize data management for facilitate the work of national customs authorities.