But for those local businesses that rely on the European market. The better the quality, the lower the price and the better the quality of Chinese goods, the less room there is for local Europeans to expand their inventory. Europeans, just like the Qing government, began to be afraid, and at this time, the “great power” was not the Eight-Nation Alliance but China.

So the European Union proposed. For packages delivered directly to customers, an additional “handling fee” of 2 euros will be charged. If the goods are dispatched from warehouses within Europe, a lower tariff of 50 euro cents will be imposed.

Lange, the president of the International Trade Committee of the European Parliament, even said that it takes a lot of time, manpower and material resources for the EU to handle 4.6 billion packages every year, and these packages are all from e-commerce portals like Taobao and Shein. If one wants to inspect such packages by oneself, it will cost more money and manpower.

So the idea of the European Union is to collect money. This money is actually not tariffs but “handling fees”. This money was used for the entry inspection and control of 4.6 billion packages.

Of course, no matter what reasons and preconditions the EU finds, as long as it eventually cancels the tariff exemption for small packages, it will be a huge blow to Chinese overseas shopping enterprises in Europe. So when the United States wanted to cancel the exemption of small tariffs at that time, it was strongly protested by China.