European Union finance ministers this week approved the scrapping of the duty-free exemption for parcels worth under €150, in a move expected to hit ultra-cheap imports from Chinese e-commerce platforms such as Temu and Shein from early 2026.
The change forms part of a wider overhaul of the EU customs union. Brussels had originally planned to remove the so-called de minimis threshold only in mid-2028, when a new EU Customs Agency and data
