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Brexit EU online shopping Sendcloud UK

September 8, 2021

Amazon EU Luxembourg Margrethe Vestager

UK online shoppers are purchasing dramatically less products from European sellers due to “plenty of barriers” and customs concerns following Brexit. Online orders to the UK from EU sellers has…

Amazon will not have to pay €250 million in back taxes after winning a landmark legal battle against the European Union’s competition chief Margrethe Vestager.

Amazon will not have to pay €250m in back taxes as it wins landmark EU tax battle

Companies Industry

May 12, 2021

Amazon will not have to pay €250 million in back taxes after winning a landmark legal battle against the European Union’s competition chief Margrethe Vestager. Europe’s second highest court has…

Online deliveries from the EU to the UK have divebombed by more than 50 per cent since January as Brexit regulations stop shoppers from buying abroad.

Online deliveries from EU divebomb 50% as Brexit stops shoppers buying abroad

ecommerce EU Europe online deliveries Sendcloud UK

April 8, 2021

Online deliveries from the EU to the UK have divebombed by more than 50 per cent since January as Brexit regulations stop shoppers from buying abroad. In the first quarter…

Zalando has announced ambitious plans to capture 10 per cent of all European fashion sales by 2025 as it reveals runaway sales figures over its first quarter.

Zalando plans to account for 10% of all EU fashion sales by 2025 as sales skyrocket

Companies Ecommerce

EU Europe fashion online returns Zalando

March 16, 2021

Zalando has announced ambitious plans to capture 10 per cent of all European fashion sales by 2025 as it reveals runaway sales figures over its first quarter. The German online…

UK exports to EU divebombed in January costing economy £5.6 billion

Industry

Brexit EU exports Imports ONS UK

March 12, 2021

UK exports of goods to the EU have fallen off a cliff since Brexit costing the British economy a whopping £5.6 billion. According to new figures released today from the…

Amazon’s two-year antitrust investigation by EU regulators could amount to nothing as investigators struggle get to grips with its algorithm.

Amazon’s 2-year antitrust probe could fail as investigators struggle to understand algorithm

Companies

Amazon Antitrust Biden EU Tim Wu

March 12, 2021

Amazon’s two-year antitrust investigation by EU regulators could amount to nothing as investigators struggle get to grips with its algorithm. EU regulators launched a landmark investigation into Amazon in July…

Brexit “proof of origin crisis” threatens £5.25 billion hit to ecommerce sales

Brexit Brussels David Frost EU Proof of Origin

March 9, 2021

EU Interchange Fees Mastercard UK

Brexit threatens to leave a £5.25 billion “black hole” in ecommerce sales as tensions between Brussels and London escalate dramatically. The EU has threatened to sue the UK after de-facto…

UK shoppers buying from the EU will now be charged five times as much as they were before Brexit in credit card “interchange fees”.

Mastercard to “hike up” fees fivefold for UK shoppers buying from EU

Ecommerce Payment

January 25, 2021

UK shoppers buying from the EU will now be charged five times as much as they were before Brexit in credit card “interchange fees”. Mastercard announced today that from October…

Online shoppers in the UK are being forced to pay more than £100 in post-Brexit import duties for items they’ve purchased from the EU.

UK shoppers are being hit with post-Brexit import bills of over £100

Brexit EU European Union Import

January 21, 2021