Blog / Eu parcel tax

The new EU regulations for parcels originating outside the EU common space are really poorly explained for electronics development, no site really added the taxes to the UI so you're basically blind to what you need to pay and have to wait till the package reaches customs processing, and customs in my experience is even worse.

I think the idea of it was that each category of items has to pay 3 euro but what are the categories and how to find them ? does each resistor value costs 3 euros ? that would be insane, pay 0.5 euro for 100 0.537 ohm resistors and 3 euros for import taxes.

It really prices out the hobbist out of the market at the weirdest time. The EU pays absurd amounts of money on AI, but doesn't want to jump start a local industry ? You can't expect to build a computer industry without electronics !

If at least the EU waited to apply those taxes till there were locals shops that sold a decent catalogue of parts. All the shops I've checked didn't seem to have the parts I picked on my initial schematic.

The EU always seems to fall behind on explaining tech regulations, it's feels like they don't understand either. The cookie policy for example seems to be decent if properly explained, but if the explaining is left to the people actually doing the shady cookie manipulation it becomes just a deceptive meme meant to sabotage citizen's rights. Who's meant to explain this to users ?