The duty exemption for parcels worth less than 150 euros will end on 1 July.

Announcement of the end of the exemption

Borderlex reports that a European Commission official indicated the end of the customs duty exemption applicable to low-value consignments . The outlet attributes the announcement to the European Commission, without naming the official cited in the available content .

The statement concerns consignments with a value below 150 euros . It relates to the de minimis regime that exempts those consignments from import customs duties, according to the account reported by Borderlex .

The announced date for the end of the exemption is 1 July . Borderlex states that the declaration presents this regime as having become unjustified in light of the growth of e-commerce and the digitalisation of customs procedures .

The available content does not mention any CELEX reference, Regulation number, or timetable published in the Official Journal for this announcement . No duty amount, transitional measure or exception is set out in the available extract .

Reasons advanced in the statement

According to Borderlex, a European Commission official linked the end of the duty exemption for consignments worth less than 150 euros to an assessment of the de minimis regime, presented as having become "unjustified" . The reported statement cites two reasons: the growth of e-commerce and the digitalisation of customs procedures .

Borderlex states that the customs duty exemption for consignments worth less than 150 euros will end on 1 July . The same report does not mention any further justification in the available extract . The documentary attribution remains limited to the statement reported by Borderlex, which refers to a European Commission official without further published material in the research file provided .

Temporary flat fee

The European Commission has published a page entitled "Guidance and legal text on temporary flat fee on low-value imports" . The title links that page to guidance and legal text relating to a temporary flat fee on low-value imports . The same title states that this flat fee applies until 1 July 2028 .

The page appears on taxation-customs.ec.europa.eu, at an address within the europa.eu domain . The available extract from the file reproduces the English title of the page, its URL and the language versions offered on the Commission website . It does not reproduce, in the material provided, the body of the legal text or a technical annex describing the scale of the temporary flat fee .

The wording of the title links the measure to "low-value imports", without detailing in the available extract the categories of goods, customs codes or exclusions covered . The date of 1 July 2028 appears in the page title as the end date of application indicated by the Commission .

Available documentary framework

The European Commission has a page devoted to customs formalities applicable to low-value consignments, hosted on its Taxation and Customs Union website . The available extracts for that page mainly reproduce navigation and language-selection elements; they do not reproduce the Commission's explanatory text on those formalities .

The file also contains a Commission page entitled "Guidance and legal text on temporary flat fee on low-value imports ...", relating to a temporary flat fee applicable to low-value imports until 1 July 2028 . The available extracts from that page do not provide any CELEX reference or Regulation number for the announced measure ending the exemption . The available extracts from the page on customs formalities likewise do not provide any CELEX reference or Regulation number for that measure .

The date of 1 July rests, in the file, on a statement reported by Borderlex: a European Commission official said that the customs duty exemption for consignments worth less than 150 euros will end on that date . Borderlex reports that this statement presents the de minimis regime as having become unjustified in light of the growth of e-commerce and the digitalisation of customs procedures .