On December 12, local time, under the leadership of France, the finance ministers of EU member states held a meeting and reached an agreement. They decided to levy a uniform temporary fixed fee of 3 euros on all small packages sent directly to the EU from non-EU countries with a value of less than 150 euros, and plan to implement permanent tariffs two years later to deal with the so-called “unfair competition” problem caused by the duty-free influx of Chinese cross-border e-commerce packages represented by Shein and Temu. Hong Kong's English-language media “South China Morning Post” said on the 13th that this move promoted by France is a “landmark” step in Europe's response to the impact of China's duty-free small package. However, considering that Chinese e-commerce businesses all have extensive warehousing and logistics networks in Europe, the actual effect of these costs remains to be seen.

On December 12, local time, under the leadership of France, the finance ministers of EU member states held a meeting and reached an agreement. They decided to levy a uniform temporary fixed fee of 3 euros on all small packages sent directly to the EU from non-EU countries with a value of less than 150 euros, and plan to implement permanent tariffs two years later to deal with the so-called “unfair competition” problem caused by the duty-free influx of Chinese cross-border e-commerce packages represented by Shein and Temu. Hong Kong's English-language media “South China Morning Post” said on the 13th that this move promoted by France is a “landmark” step in Europe's response to the impact of China's duty-free small package. However, considering that Chinese e-commerce businesses all have extensive warehousing and logistics networks in Europe, the actual effect of these costs remains to be seen.