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Dutch customs processed 70% fewer e-commerce declarations in August and September
The Netherlands received far fewer individual parcels in the three months after an exemption for parcels from outside the EU ended.
In August and September, customs processed about 70% fewer e-commerce declarations than in the same months a year earlier.
The change followed the removal of the exemption for parcels from outside the EU.
The figures suggest the measure is reducing parcel declarations.
The account does not say how the change affected customs' workload.
It also gives no details about what happens next.
Dutch customs processed about 70% fewer e-commerce declarations in August and September than in the same months a year earlier.
The decline followed the end of an exemption for packages from outside the European Union.
Fewer individual packages arrived in the three months after the exemption ended.
The report says the measure appears to be working.
- Who
- Dutch customs.
- What
- It processed about 70% fewer e-commerce declarations in August and September than a year earlier.
- When
- In August and September; the report was published on 13 October 2026.
- Where
- The Netherlands.
- Why
- The decline followed the end of an exemption for packages from outside the European Union; the report says the measure appears to be working.
This story does not have two clearly opposing sides.
Fewer individual packages arrived over the following three months.
Customs processed about 70% fewer e-commerce declarations than in the same period a year earlier.
- Decline in declarations
- About 70%
- Months compared
- August and September
- Comparison
- The same months a year earlier
- Affected packages
- Packages from countries outside the European Union
Sources
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