{"id":756058,"date":"2026-06-23T23:46:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T23:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/756058\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T23:46:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T23:46:12","slug":"eu-sees-6-billion-reasons-for-new-levy-on-online-shoppers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/756058\/","title":{"rendered":"EU Sees 6 Billion Reasons for New Levy on Online Shoppers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Bargain-hunting consumers across the European Union will start feeling the pinch of higher online shopping costs next week when a new levy primarily targeting China comes into force, adding a layer of trade friction between the two economies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Starting July 1, a \u20ac3 duty will apply on items less than \u20ac150 ($172), a move aimed at slowing the flood of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2025-12-22\/shein-s-global-ambitions-survive-french-store-uproar\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">low-priced merchandise<\/a> from outside the EU sold by sites like Shein and Temu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bargain-hunting consumers across the European Union will start feeling the pinch of higher online shopping costs next week&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":756059,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[64,63,22536,3686,99,79974,512,18452,5693,164,2057,195356,10465,18466,171,7240,105],"class_list":["post-756058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-automotive","tag-beijing","tag-business","tag-cargo","tag-china","tag-e-commerce","tag-economics","tag-economy","tag-europe","tag-fedex-corp","tag-global-trade","tag-imports","tag-markets","tag-shopping","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=756058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756058\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/756059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=756058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=756058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=756058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}