Non-EU parcel fee should rise to 7 euros, Polish e-commerce chamber says

A Polish e-commerce chamber asked on 15 September for a higher import charge. The Izba Gospodarki Elektronicznej wants the non-EU parcel fee set at 7 euros. It would apply to e-commerce parcels from outside the European Union that go straight to the shopper. The European Commission decides the final amount.

The chamber wants the new rate in place by 1 November

A flat charge of 3 euros has applied since 1 July 2026. The chamber calls that level too low. It asks for 7 euros and wants the change no later than 1 November 2026.

Small parcels into the EU reached 5.9 billion items in 2025

The chamber cites its own import figures. Small parcels brought 5.9 billion items into the EU in 2025. The 2024 total was 4.6 billion, so the rise was 26 percent. More than 90 percent of those parcels come from China. EU customs ran 387,588 checks in 2025.

Cross-border trade keeps widening inside Europe too. On TikTok, sellers in eight EU markets can now ship to the UK.

NielsenIQ asked shoppers in five countries

NielsenIQ ran the study for a company called KleinS. It covered Poland, Germany, France, Italy and Spain. It found that 92 percent of European shoppers kept buying from outside the EU. In Poland only 7 percent moved to domestic online shops. Another 6 percent went back to physical stores.

Poland is the chamber’s home market. It is also a market where retail media alone is worth about 2 billion zloty.

One in five Polish shoppers now spends more abroad

In Poland 20 percent raised their spending on foreign orders. A further 28 percent do not plan to order less often. Price rises were noticed by 81 percent of Polish shoppers and by 78 percent across the EU. For 8 percent of Polish buyers prices jumped by more than half.

Polish shoppers cut restaurants before they cut parcels

People are saving elsewhere instead. Eating out was cut by 39 percent of those asked. Clothing and footwear budgets were cut by 35 percent. Natalia Stanowska-Potoczny, a lawyer at the Causa Finita firm, said the cost "is almost always included in the price the consumer pays". That quote is translated from Polish.

The split is easy to see. Sellers inside the EU gain if the fee makes parcels from outside less attractive. Shoppers who order cheap items lose, because 7 euros on a 10-euro product is 70 percent of its price. The Commission decides which side it favours.