Blog / Eu parcel tax

The EU introduced new regulations for parcels originating outside the EU common market and they're poorly explained for electronics development. None of the site I checked really added the taxes to the UI so you're basically blind to what you need to pay. You'd have have to wait till the package reaches customs processing to know what you owe, and customs in my experience is even worse at explaining.

I think the idea was that articles are divided in categories and you pay a tax of 3€ per category, but what are the categories and how to find them ? if you buy resistors for example, would each resistor value add to the import fee ? that would be excessive, you would end up paying 0.5€ for 100 0.537Ω resistors and 3€ for import taxes.

It really makes it difficult for hobbist 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 !

They could have waited to apply those taxes till there were locals shops that had a decent catalogue of parts. All the shops I've checked don't seem to have the parts I picked on my initial schematic.

The EU always seems to fall behind on explaining tech regulations. It feels like they don't understand their own policies, 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 ?