{"id":137255,"date":"2025-02-06T07:40:45","date_gmt":"2025-02-06T05:40:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/eu-to-tighten-checks-on-goods-sold-by-sites-such-as-shein-and-temu\/"},"modified":"2025-02-06T07:40:45","modified_gmt":"2025-02-06T05:40:45","slug":"eu-to-tighten-checks-on-goods-sold-by-sites-such-as-shein-and-temu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/news\/eu-to-tighten-checks-on-goods-sold-by-sites-such-as-shein-and-temu\/","title":{"rendered":"EU to tighten checks on goods sold by sites such as Shein and Temu"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\" data-trp-original-action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button\" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137255\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"trp-form-language\" value=\"en\"\/><\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\n<p>Parcels sent from China by online retailers such as Shein and Temu will face strict new customs controls as part of a crackdown by the European Commission on \u201cdangerous products\u201d flooding the EU market. Brussels officials also urged EU lawmakers to phase out the exemption on customs duties that is allowed for parcels under \u20ac150 (\u00a3125), which enables foreign suppliers to sell cheap goods in the bloc without paying the tax.<\/p>\n<p>The commission said many of the billions of low-value products that enter the EU each year were not compliant with its laws, and European companies that respected the rules were losing out to competitors selling unsafe or counterfeit products. \u201cWe have seen a surge in low-value products sold by non-EU traders sold by online marketplaces,\u201d said the commission vice-president Henna Virkkunen. \u201cMany of those products, they have been found to be unsafe, counterfeited or even dangerous, so they are not often meeting our standards.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Last year, 4.6bn low-value parcels entered the EU, equivalent to 12m a day, three times more than in 2022. More than 91% of parcels valued under \u20ac150 came from China, where Temu and Shein make and dispatch most of their goods. In a policy paper published on Wednesday, the commission said it would work with national customs authorities in the EU\u2019s 27 member states to focus on unsafe products sold online, including stepping up market surveillance and testing.<\/p>\n<p>The increase in cheap products bought online is increasing pressure on customs authorities, the commission said. It called on EU lawmakers \u2013 member states and MEPs \u2013 to remove the duty exemption on imports priced below \u20ac150, in line with proposals from May 2023. \u201cIn response to the surge of low value e-commerce imports, it is critical to finalise our customs union reform,\u201d said the European commissioner for trade, Maro\u0161 \u0160ef\u010dovi\u010d. He also suggested European lawmakers impose a handling fee on retailers to cover the soaring costs of supervising compliance with EU rules.<\/p>\n<p>The EU executive is concerned about the environmental damage caused by the flood of cheap imports, from the pollution involved in their production and transport to the \u201cserious challenges\u201d posed to European recycling authorities, left to deal with low-quality, toxic or hard-to-recycle products. It urged lawmakers to speed up work on a draft law that would mean manufacturers of textiles and footwear would pay fees to fund rubbish collection and treatment. Temu and Shein did not immediately respond to requests for comment.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2025\/feb\/05\/eu-to-tighten-checks-on-goods-sold-by-sites-such-as-shein-and-temu\">Read more&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2025\/feb\/05\/eu-to-tighten-checks-on-goods-sold-by-sites-such-as-shein-and-temu\">The Guardian<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/csr-news-en\/eu-to-tighten-checks-on-goods-sold-by-sites-such-as-shein-and-temu\/\">EU to tighten checks on goods sold by sites such as Shein and Temu<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[555,274,17841],"class_list":["post-137255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-csr-news-en","tag-eu","tag-shein-and-temu"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}