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The declaration fee for a package from China can end up to 200 SEK, compared to 75 SEK today, it reports. Swedish radio.
– It would take a lot of people to manage this. The consequence will be additional fees for consumers, because someone has to pay for the additional labor we receive, Peter Hesslin, Postnord’s head of e-commerce, tells SR.
To phase out dangerous chemicals, the government agreed with the January parties to a new tax on clothing and footwear, but due to the pandemic, the introduction was postponed until 2022. When buying online from countries outside the EU , the tax is introduced per kilo of clothing and footwear, according to the proposal in the Government investigation. Traders who can prove the products are non-toxic get 95 percent of the tax back.
Sweden has also presented, together with France, an EU proposal with the aim of limiting more than 1,000 allergenic substances that may be present in our clothes today.
