{"id":23612,"date":"2026-04-29T16:58:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T13:58:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalpost.ua\/?p=23612"},"modified":"2026-04-29T22:09:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T19:09:06","slug":"eu-parcel-duty-2026-ukrainian-exporters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalpost.ua\/en\/eu-parcel-duty-2026-ukrainian-exporters\/","title":{"rendered":"A flat fee of \u20ac3 for parcels sent to the EU starting July 1, 2026: What Ukrainian exporters need to know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Starting July 1, 2026, the European Union will close the duty-free threshold for small parcels.<\/strong> Every shipment valued at up to \u20ac150 entering the EU from a non-European seller will be subject to a fixed \u20ac3 duty. The final decision was adopted by the Council of the EU on February 11, 2026. This is a transitional measure: it will remain in effect until July 1, 2028, after which the full customs reform and standard EU rates based on commodity codes will come into force.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For Ukrainian businesses shipping goods to the EU, this is a change in operating model.<\/strong> It affects documentation, pricing, Incoterms in contracts, and order architecture. Below, we break down how the new duty is calculated in practice, which documentation errors delay shipments, whether to choose DDP or DAP, and what should be done before July to avoid losing margin and customers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Starting July 1, 2026, the European Union will close the duty-free threshold for small parcels. Every shipment valued at up to \u20ac150 entering the EU from a non-European seller will be subject to a fixed \u20ac3 duty. The final decision was adopted by the Council of the EU on February 11, 2026. This is a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":23623,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"page-single_post_new_2026.php","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-oformlennia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpost.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpost.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpost.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpost.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpost.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23612"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/globalpost.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23630,"href":"https:\/\/globalpost.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23612\/revisions\/23630"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpost.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpost.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpost.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpost.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}