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EU plans two-euro flat fee on small parcels from outside bloc
EU plans two-euro flat fee on small parcels from outside bloc
Economy
by  AFP

The EU said Tuesday that it was preparing to impose a two-euro ($2.25) flat fee on the billions of low-value packages that flood into the bloc each year, the great majority from China. Last year, 4.6 billion such small packages entered the EU -- more than 145 per second -- with 91 percent originating in China.