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Sending corporate gifts from the UK to the EU
Start here for anyone in the EU: why company gifts aren’t treated as gifts at customs, and the paperwork each parcel needs.
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Global gifting guides: customs and delivery
A gift from your company becomes a commercial import the moment it crosses a border, so someone has to pay the import VAT and any duty. Since August 2025 the USA has suspended, and the EU has removed, duty relief for low-value parcels. Each guide below shows the date its rules were last checked against the official sources.
5 guides
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Five guides, each dated with when its rules were last checked against the official sources.
Small orders sold online into the EU
The EU de minimis and the new parcel duty
Sending small parcels into the EU? Low-value duty relief ended on 1 July 2026: which parcels now pay the flat rate, and how it’s counted.
People in Germany
Sending gifts and parcels to Germany from the UK
For people in Germany: import VAT, why company parcels get no gift relief, paperwork, etiquette and the holidays to plan around.
People in the USA
Sending gifts and parcels to the USA from the UK
For people in the USA: duty now that de minimis is suspended, the extra tariff on many UK-made goods and the gift rule.
Deciding who pays at the door
DDP vs DAP: who pays customs on your gifts?
Choosing delivery terms with a carrier? Who clears the import and pays the charges under each, and what recipients see.
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What changed, and when.
The dates behind these guides. Each links to the guide that explains it and cites the source.
- 29 August 2025The USA suspends de minimis, its duty-free allowance for low-value parcels, for every country.
- 1 July 2026The EU’s low-value duty relief ends. Low-value goods sold online to consumers in the EU pay a flat duty per item category.
- 24 July 2026Many products made in the UK carry an extra 10% US tariff under Section 301.
- 1 November 2026Expected: a per-item EU handling fee on goods sold online to consumers in the EU.
- 1 July 2027Expected: US law ends the de minimis exemption.
- 1 July 2028Expected: the EU’s flat duty on low-value online sales runs until this date, unless extended.
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