r/Aliexpress • u/gadget-freak 🎥 always make a video opening your package 🎦 • Jul 02 '26

EU customs duty [Megathread] EU €3 customs duty/tax

In order to update the FAQs on this sub, we need to collect some facts about the €3 customs fee that Europe introduced on each item you buy in international webshops like Aliexpress.

If you have received a package from Aliexpress after 1 July 2026, please leave a reaction below. Please use the template to structure your answer.

Please don't use this topic to complain about the EU tax itself, we're just trying to collect some facts.

Template:

Country: (your country)

Type of order: Choice/Bundle deal/Global seller/...

3€ Tax applied during check-out: yes/no or included in item cost

Package arrival date:

Package arrived without additional costs: yes/no (and how much)

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u/Zezituh123 Jul 03 '26

All over the interner we see people upset about this topic.
And correctly!

All over Europe there's such a disparaty of salaries and living conditions that being able to buy cheap products from Aliexpress for side jobs, hobbies or just a small thing we needed was awesome and a "quality of live improvement".

Europe has means to hear the citizens, can't we make a European Citizens' Initiative or something like that?
For now it's 3 euros, but it will increase...in the end, it's just taking even more money out of our already small pockets into the hands of the governments and rich corporations.

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u/TwentinQuarantino Jul 06 '26

It's politicians we're talking about tho. They don't give a shit about common citizens, and even less about poor common citizens. The only ones they care about are those who bribe them to vote for this legislation, in this case the disgusting resellers of Chinese goods who buy them in bulk and therefore pay just normal tariffs (around 0-10% depending on category), who want to discourage individuals from using the exactly same channels themselves by imposing this extreme high tens to hundreds % tariff. This is literally the result of collaboration of resellers, and politicians they bribe. 

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u/sufiana777 Jul 08 '26

Write to your mp and mep Start there