{"id":17709,"date":"2026-07-02T10:09:45","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T09:09:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/?p=17709"},"modified":"2026-07-02T10:09:45","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T09:09:45","slug":"doing-our-eu-duty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2026\/07\/doing-our-eu-duty\/","title":{"rendered":"Doing our (EU) Duty"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fcbkbttn_like \"><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2026\/07\/doing-our-eu-duty\/\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\" layout=\"standard\"  width=\"450px\" size=\"small\"><\/fb:like><\/div><\/div><p>It&#8217;s <em>&#8220;fun&#8221;<\/em> being a small manufacturer trying to negotiate international rules and regulations nowadays. The latest thing thrown at us is a new regime of customs duties being levied by the EU on all packages originating outside of the Union. This is presumably aimed at the likes of Temu, Shein, AliExpress et al, but of course, being a rather blunt instrument, it hammers the little guys as well.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/EU-Shipping-Van-720.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"12720\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2022\/01\/eu-shipping\/eu-shipping-van-720\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/EU-Shipping-Van-720.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"720,540\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"EU Shipping Van-720\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/EU-Shipping-Van-720.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/EU-Shipping-Van-720.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"540\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-12720\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The initial implementation sees a 3\u20ac duty added to every parcel from outside the EU for each different HS code on the customs declaration. Fortunately most of our packages have a single HS code (we use 9503003000 &#8211; reduced scale models &#8211; for the EU) so we should only incur one charge, but nevertheless it means that we&#8217;ll have to add that each order. There&#8217;s no way for us to add this separately in our website code, so it&#8217;ll be bundled into the shipping costs and won&#8217;t show separately on the invoice. If you require an invoice that shows this fee separately, please let us know and we can manually edit your invoice to show this as a line item separate from the shipping charges. For any orders that require a second HS code (which will happen if you order a book from us) we&#8217;ll contact you with a payment request for the extra duty. Our EU shipping charges needed updating anyway to reflect recent changes in courier fees (they&#8217;ve gone up slightly, but not by much), so we&#8217;ve done this all at once. The regulations took effect yesterday so the new charges are already in place.<\/p>\n<p>One important thing we should point out is that we&#8217;ll continue to make sure that, whatever taxes, duties and fees are levelled at us, we&#8217;ll ensure that they&#8217;re all paid up front and once your order is placed and paid for, you won&#8217;t get stung for any further fees. We collect them all at checkout and pay them to the relevant authorities when your package reaches the EU. Your courier won&#8217;t ask for any additional fees before delivery.<\/p>\n<p>As much as we&#8217;d love to absorb these costs, with everything else rising around us we just can&#8217;t do that (if you&#8217;ve five minutes we&#8217;d love to tell you how AI data centres are cornering much of the world&#8217;s supply of tin and forcing up the price we pay for our casting metal at a exponential rate).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s &#8220;fun&#8221; being a small manufacturer trying to negotiate international rules and regulations nowadays. The latest thing thrown at us is a new regime of customs duties being levied by the EU on all packages originating outside of the Union. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2026\/07\/doing-our-eu-duty\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12720,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Update on the EU's new custom's duties which came in to effect yesterday - TL;DR, there's an additional 3\u20ac fee on all orders from EU countries.","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[29,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-shipping-stories","category-updates-and-general-waffle"],"views":139,"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/EU-Shipping-Van-720.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p26BWy-4BD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12194,"url":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2021\/06\/more-european-shipping-news\/","url_meta":{"origin":17709,"position":0},"title":"More European Shipping News","author":"Tony","date":"June 22, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"As if we hadn't already had enough, there's yet another twist coming to the Brexit\/VAT\/shipping saga for our EU customers. 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