I think the Dutch government committed a massive own-goal: the problem is that there's too many small, personal orders from China relative to Customs' processing capacity, so they're imposing a 2-euro-per-item processing fee. But:
a) it's per item on the package label, not per package, which doesn't incentivize bundling multiple items into one package to reduce waste etc etc;
b) it was originally meant to go into effect in 2028, but they suddenly decided to accelerate this. To January 2026. Announced in late November 2025. Meaning that anyone who had orders on the mind was incentivized to order them immediately, in December, the busiest time of the year for packages.
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