EU will charge additional fees for packages arriving from foreign countries

According to the announcement of the taxation unit of the EU Commission, the new transaction fee for e-commerce shipments to the Union countries will begin to be applied on November 1, 2026.

Within the scope of the customs reform, the costs arising from the control and inspection of e-commerce shipments, which increase with the introduced fee, will be covered.

In this context, an additional fee of 2 euros will be applied for packages coming from outside the Union. This fee will be calculated separately for each product item in the customs declaration. If there are different product items in a package, a separate processing fee will be charged.

The regulation will also cover e-commerce shipments whose value exceeds 150 euros.

The new processing fee will be collected separately from the temporary customs duty of 3 euros that the EU has imposed on low-value e-commerce shipments from July 1.

Thus, for a shipment within the scope of both applications, there will be a processing fee of 2 euros in addition to the customs duty of 3 euros for a single item.

The EU aims to strengthen its inspection capacity against the increasing e-commerce volume with the customs reform and to more effectively control the entry of products that do not comply with the Union standards.

While 5.9 billion low-value products were sent directly to consumers in EU countries in 2025, more than 90 percent of them originated from China.

The EU has been working on imposing a new tax on purchases made through China-based online shopping platform Temu and AliExpress, as well as Shein, an e-commerce company established in China, for a long time.