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The EU plans to create ecommerce platforms such as Teemu, Shane and Amazon Marketplace for dangerous or illegal products sold online by crackdown on import from China.
According to a draft proposal seen by the Financial Times, customs will be forced to reform Online platform To provide data before the product arrives in the EU, allow officials to control better control and packages. This proposal comes in anxiety about the growth of fake products to send directly to European customers from Asia.
Currently, any person EU Those who purchase products online are considered as importer for the purpose of the tariff. But if the reforms are accepted, this responsibility will switch to the platform.
“The increasing amounts of unsafe, duplicate or otherwise non-alphabetical products lead to serious protection and health risks for customers, have a useless impact on the environment, and the sector has a significant impact on the fuel for legitimate business,” the sector, “the proposal reads.
The EU imported the low price parcel in 2021 in 2021, four times the increase in 2022. Was more than 90 percent from China. According to the draft, the perfect volume of these items puts a “unstable pressure on the authority”.
Under the renovation, online retailers need to “collect relevant tariffs and VAT” and “to ensure the consent of the products with other EU requirements”. The proposal also cancels the current discount for products less than $ 150 from paying tariffs, making them subject to check checks.
According to the draft, customs data of 2 27 national authorities will be pointed out and a new Central EU Customs Authority (UUCA) will be established. The document is still being discussed internally and may change before the release of February 5th.
“The UUCA will be able to screen the products based on this information and identify potential risks, even before the loading of the product for transport or their physical arrival in the EU,” the document says.
“This will allow the customs authorities to complete the overview, import and export expectations on supply discipline and to recommend the member states to control.”
Annual sale for the garment industry for fraud (5 percent of income), cosmetics industry € 3 billion (5 percent of sales) and toys spent $ 1 billion (about 9 percent of sales), spend, proposed.
The new waste rules of the block will also force seller to spend on settling unwanted products, including clothes, added the document.
The EU will also consider imposing handling fees towards the package, which is a plan published by FT first.
Under separate rules for market behavior of greater online platforms, the Commission is already investigating Shane and Amazon and has begun activities against Ally Express and Temu.
Online Marketplaces failed to remove them quickly after selling illegal or dangerous products or detected by other vendors to the responsibility of the product sold on their website.
Temu and Shane were all FTs earlier that they obeyed the EU rules. Temu says it supports ethical changes that benefit customers.
Amazon says that it has an active system to prevent insecure or non-non-non-non-non-non-non-non-non-non-non-non-non-non-non-non-nonsense products from its site.
