Tag: E-Commerce


  • Parcel Fee Era

    With six weeks to the 1 November deadline, the European Union has still not set the level of its new handling charge on low-value parcels, leaving cross-border sellers to plan a cost they cannot yet quantify BRUSSELS, 18 September 2026. The European Union’s assault on the low-value parcel is entering its decisive phase, and the…

  • Brazil Duty Mix

    Brasilia rewrites its tariff schedule on two fronts at once: a midnight deadline decides whether the 20 percent tax on small e-commerce parcels returns, while Gecex retools duties on hundreds of capital goods and opens a new anti-dumping front against China BRASILIA, September 8, 2026 Brazil’s trade policy reached an unusually consequential crossroads this week,…

  • China Defies EU

    Beijing’s blocking order against Brussels’ foreign subsidies probe of JD.com’s bid for Germany’s Ceconomy escalates a widening contest over who writes the rules of global commerce, and it leaves multinational compliance teams standing in the crossfire. BEIJING, Aug. 19. China ordered companies and individuals on Wednesday to refuse cooperation with a European Union subsidy investigation…

  • Beijing Blocks

    China issues a sweeping blocking order against the European Union’s foreign subsidy investigation of JD.com, escalating a regulatory standoff that could reshape how Chinese companies do deals in Europe BEIJING, Aug. 20, 2026 China has ordered its companies and citizens not to cooperate with a European Union subsidy investigation into e-commerce giant JD.com, deploying its…

  • Loophole Locked

    Federal trade court upholds the president’s elimination of the $800 de minimis exemption, cementing duties on billions of low-value parcels and handing the White House a rare win on emergency tariff powers WASHINGTON, August 17, 2026 — The era of duty-free small parcels is not coming back. In a decision handed down August 13 and…

  • De Minimis Win

    The Court of International Trade rules that IEEPA authorized the president to rescind the $800 duty-free threshold, drawing a line between eliminating an exemption and imposing a tariff, and closing the last realistic path to reviving the loophole NEW YORK, August 16, 2026. A three-judge panel of the United States Court of International Trade has…

  • De Minimis Fall

    The Court of International Trade rejects Detroit Axle’s challenge and upholds presidential authority to rescind the 800 dollar duty free threshold, closing the last realistic path to revival NEW YORK, Aug. 15, 2026. A three judge panel of the United States Court of International Trade ruled Thursday that President Donald J. Trump lawfully rescinded the…

  • Dubai Duty Lift

    The emirate more than triples its duty-free ceiling for cross-border e-commerce parcels to AED 1,000, a liberalizing outlier in a year when Washington, Brussels and much of the world slammed the small-parcel door shut DUBAI, Aug. 3, 2026. Dubai opened the week by making its border cheaper to cross, at the precise moment much of…

  • EU Parcel Levy

    Three weeks into the 3 euro duty on small parcels, Brussels is squeezing the Shein and Temu pipeline while racing an October deadline to rebalance the wider China trade relationship International Trade Desk, Peacock Tariff Consulting | July 21, 2026 BRUSSELS, July 21, 2026: The most consequential customs change Europe has made in a generation…

  • WTO Reform Push

    With the e-commerce duty moratorium dead and ministers still smarting from Yaounde, members used this week’s General Council to argue over how, and how fast, to rebuild the trading system’s rules International Trade Desk, Peacock Tariff Consulting | July 21, 2026 GENEVA, July 21, 2026: The World Trade Organization’s General Council convened in Geneva this…