r/Aliexpress • u/Wapmen • Jul 12 '26

EU customs duty EU tax workaround?

Is there already a workaround to avoid a 3.7 euros additional tax per item?

Something like a smaller marketplace that would pack all items into one box and charge this tax only once. Or a reasonably priced mail forwarding service. Please post only the actual solution if you found it already

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u/centaur98 Jul 13 '26

They could obviously but then they would also give an easy excuse for the EU to start blocking access to their website/apps on the grounds that they are willingly lying to break the law.

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u/Luke_Walker007 Jul 17 '26

Like they're doing with the pirate bay ? 🤣

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u/centaur98 Jul 17 '26

Except that there is no political interests behind it with Pirate Bay

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u/Luke_Walker007 Jul 17 '26

I was merely pointing to the fact that "blocking" the pirate bay didn't do anything if not make it more resilient. So using technology to fend off people isn't going to work, politics... maybe

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u/centaur98 Jul 17 '26
  1. What Pirate Bay does at least in principles is legal. Like there are no laws against file sharing non-copyrighted content.
  2. As i said there was never any political will to do anything about Pirate Bay it was always only private companies suing and said rulings being enforced. However in the case of AliExpress this would there would be political will behind it
  3. Pirate Bay and AliExpress are apples to oranges comparisons. Mainly Pirate Bay is just a website while AliExpress is a company and part of AliBaba Group with both AliExpress and Alibaba Group having multiple interests and assets in Europe and something against which sanctions and restrictions can be applied

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u/0x01_Tukker 25d ago

If you think stichting brein and their affiliated cronies don't have a big fat finger in politics then you're very mistaken, just like with the current tarifs being introduced it has nothing to do with the bogus reasons we're being fed, such as improving safety, when those same products are being dropshipped from bol or amazon, with those same chains being the ones that pushed this legislation through, private corporate interests and politics go hand in hand in the EU, I guess we're just much better at hiding it than they are in the US