Comment by Cthulhu_
7 days ago
They may be compelled to do that; there's 1.3 million packages from Chinese retailers a day coming in through the Netherlands, but since they're all individual packages, they fall under a threshold for import taxes. There's now calls to drop that threshold so that people pay import taxes for small items as well, and / or to compel Temu and co to stop shipping individual packages but do it in bulk.
The exemption for low value imports was removed a few years ago, see other comments near this one in the discussion.
Purchases from Temu pay EU VAT according to the location of the purchaser, and an electronic system means the money sent to Temu gets to the EU and the package can sail through customs.