“A few euros” per package. France proposes to charge “flat -rate management fees” on each small package entering Europefrom 2026, to finance the controls called upon to strengthen Faced with the low -value parcel influx from Chinasaid government members from Roissy-Charles-de-Gaulle airport.
It is a question of “paying importers, platforms, and not consumers, a small lump sum on parcels,” said the Minister of Public Accounts, Amélie de Montchalin.
This measure is an “anticipation of the reform of the customs union in 2028,” said the minister. “France will defend the rapid introduction at the European level of a management fee mechanism on each small package entering Europe. The money raised would be used to finance controls, “said the minister’s office.
This tax would be applied from 2026, until 2028, the date on which the European Union could remove the exemption from customs tax on packages worth less than 150 euros, arriving from countries outside the European Union.
Shein and Temu in the viewfinder
Four ministers of Bercy, Éric Lombard (economy and finance), Amélie de Montchalin (public accounts), Véronique Louwagie (trade and crafts in particular) and Clara Chappaz (artificial and digital intelligence), were traveling to Roissy airport, to speak “regulation” and “security of e-commerce platforms”.
The platform Sheinbased in Singapore, is the subject of an investigation by the European Commission, being suspected of not sufficiently fighting the sale of products which do not comply with European standards. The institution has also surveyed since October on the Chinese site of origin Ago For similar patterns.
Some 4.6 billion shipments worth less than 150 euros entered the European market in 2024, more than 145 each second. Of this total, 91 % came from China. For France alone, 800 million packages worth less than 150 euros were delivered last year (out of a total of 1.5 billion packages).
