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  • 1 year

    It’s the sheer volume of b2c goods coming in from outside the EU, they just can’t check it all.

      • Afaik, TEMU is only a broker between hundreds of exporters and the customer (who is also the importer). Banning the exporter of basically useless, they just reopen under a new name.

        • I assume they’d still have to register a new account with temu and lose their reviews? Being diligent about that seems already like a good start, at first glance…

          • 1 year

            If they’d ban Temu, which they currently don’t seem to have legal ground for, Temu would just stop printing their logo on the labels. New sender address, done. It’s not like the follow laws now anyway. They also lie about the value of packages to avoid paying import taxes.

              • 1 year

                Then it again comes down to volume. It’d be lot of work, so EU would need to spend money. I don’t think they consider it a big enough problem (yet).

                • They could do:

                  • Keep current rate of random checks
                  • Whenever an infringing product is detected, ban exporter
                  • That way, from then on, all automated checks trash that exporter. (I’m thinking integration with the postal service)

                  Hopefully it’ll be a pain in their arse to some extent

                  • 1 year

                    It might work, but the EU doesn’t have a central entry point / organisation handling the mail so the legislation needs to be airtight if you want this to be effective.