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Internationalize your platform
Easily harmonize your entire catalog
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View our APIs for custom development options
Simple integrations for the most popular platforms
Learn about our APIs and product integrations
Check Zonos system and API status
Cross border made easy
Zonos Decoders are changing an industry, find out how.
Zonos was rated the top workplace in Utah, find out why.
Look at current job postings at Zonos.
Let‘s do something great together.
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April 2, 2021 / 0 min read - Last updated: January 6, 2023
Welcome to the fourth [and final] part of our Post-Brexit shipping cheat sheet blog series! In this blog post, we will be tackling all you need to know about shipping to the European Union from outside of the EU including the United Kingdom, now that the UK has departed from the EU. Check out parts 1, 2, and 3 of the series:
Part 1: Post-Brexit shipping cheat sheet
Part 2: Post-Brexit shipping cheat sheet: Shipping to the UK after Brexit
Part 3: Post-Brexit shipping cheat sheet: Shipping between the EU and the UK after Brexit
As you may have read in our previous blog posts, the EU is rolling out a VAT scheme effective July 1, 2021. The law includes more options for VAT collection on low-value orders, but the most significant aspect for businesses shipping into the EU is the €22 VAT de minimis going away. All orders going into the EU regardless of their value will be subject to VAT.
This is important to note because online retailers whose products are valued mostly at €22 or less may not have worried about EU VAT before now.
For example, a €3 pair of socks shipped to the EU will now be subject to VAT as of July 1, 2021.
Regarding VAT collection on low-value imports entering the EU, you can continue using the carriers’ billing options of billing the sender, recipient, or third-party account numbers for payment of duties and taxes.
The EU has also introduced two new options that you can choose from for the collection of VAT on low-value imports (orders valued at or less than €150):
The purpose of the EU VAT scheme is to level the playing field between EU and non-EU online retailers. Prior to July 1, 2021, non-EU retailers could ship low-value items into the EU duty and VAT free, while EU retailers have always paid VAT. Effective July 1, 2021, they are all taxed the same.
We talked about preferential origin in previous blogs, but the point is… Ignore that! It does not apply to ROW (rest of world) online retailers shipping into the EU. This simply means any import into the EU valued at greater than the duty de minimis (€150) may be subject to the duty rates of the EU country of import. In other words, any order valued at or below €150 will not be subject to duty upon entry into the EU.
Effective July 1, 2021…
Now that you know what to consider when shipping into the EU, you may be feeling like it’s a lot to manage. Zonos can help you with this.
Congratulations! You’ve made it through our entire Post-Brexit shipping cheat sheet blog series and are officially ready for cross-border trade after Brexit.
A love of bringing words together to create clear, simple messages about complex topics has driven me to pursue a career in professional writing. As the Content Manager at Zonos, I find excitement and purpose in decoding the complex details of cross-border ecommerce.