{"id":32770,"date":"2025-02-07T17:06:19","date_gmt":"2025-02-07T17:06:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/07\/uk-urged-to-close-tax-loophole-to-prevent-massive-influx-of-shein-and-temu-goods\/"},"modified":"2025-02-07T17:06:19","modified_gmt":"2025-02-07T17:06:19","slug":"uk-urged-to-close-tax-loophole-to-prevent-massive-influx-of-shein-and-temu-goods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/07\/uk-urged-to-close-tax-loophole-to-prevent-massive-influx-of-shein-and-temu-goods\/","title":{"rendered":"UK urged to close tax loophole to prevent \u2018massive influx\u2019 of Shein and Temu goods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Campaigners and retailers say Britain should follow US and EU in phasing out exemption on duties for low-value parcels<\/p>\n<p>Tax campaigners have joined retailers in urging the UK government to close a tax loophole to prevent a \u201cmassive influx\u201d of cheap goods from companies such as Shein and Temu flooding the market.<\/p>\n<p>It comes after the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2025\/feb\/05\/eu-to-tighten-checks-on-goods-sold-by-sites-such-as-shein-and-temu\">EU said it was joining the US in phasing out an exemption on customs duties for low-value parcels<\/a> that has been used by the companies to export goods from China cheaply.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2025\/feb\/07\/uk-tax-loophole-shein-temu-us-eu\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Campaigners and retailers say Britain should follow US and EU in phasing out exemption on duties for low-value parcels Tax campaigners have joined retailers in urging the UK government to close a tax loophole to prevent a \u201cmassive influx\u201d of cheap goods from companies such as Shein and Temu flooding the market. It comes after &#8230; <a title=\"UK urged to close tax loophole to prevent \u2018massive influx\u2019 of Shein and Temu goods\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/07\/uk-urged-to-close-tax-loophole-to-prevent-massive-influx-of-shein-and-temu-goods\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about UK urged to close tax loophole to prevent \u2018massive influx\u2019 of Shein and Temu goods\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32770\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}