{"id":598075,"date":"2026-08-19T12:38:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T12:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/598075\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T12:38:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T12:38:09","slug":"would-higher-customs-charges-affect-your-decision-to-shop-from-outside-the-eu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/598075\/","title":{"rendered":"Would higher customs charges affect your decision to shop from outside the EU?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A NEW \u20ac2 HANDLING fee is set to be introduced <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thejournal.ie\/new-eu-parcel-handling-fee-7134685-Aug2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">on parcels ordered from outside the European Union from November.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This will apply on top of the \u20ac3 customs charge introduced <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thejournal.ie\/new-custom-charges-on-orders-from-outside-the-eu-kicking-in-today-7079575-Jul2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">last month<\/a> \u2013 which applies to each unique item in non-EU orders worth \u20ac150 or less.<\/p>\n<p>The charge was introduced with the aim of levelling the playing field for businesses in EU member states.<\/p>\n<p>Customs compliance expert Brian Murphy has warned that it\u2019s \u201cvery likely\u201d this handling fee will also apply to each individual item in a parcel.<\/p>\n<p>That could mean that there will be an additional cost of around \u20ac5 per unique item once both charges are applied.<\/p>\n<p>So, we\u2019re asking: Would higher customs charges affect your decision to order items from outside the EU?<\/p>\n<p>\n  Poll Results:<\/p>\n<p>I already avoid ordering outside the EU (375)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A NEW \u20ac2 HANDLING fee is set to be introduced on parcels ordered from outside the European Union&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":598076,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,8497,90331,8177,5148,61,132684,60,20801,3865,3866,3867],"class_list":["post-598075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-consumer-news","tag-customs","tag-e-commerce","tag-european-union","tag-ie","tag-import-duties","tag-ireland","tag-online-shopping","tag-poll","tag-the-daily-poll","tag-your-say"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=598075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598075\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/598076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}