While looking at a flight price on sas.dk I had to disable Firefox's built-in enhanced tracking protection.
It seems excessive to not allow at least a single query in this situation.
I had the same with a newspaper which I subscribe to. They shouldn't be tracking me, and don't show adverts to subscribers. In this case I wrote to their support person, who told me not to block the tracking.
Are eggs regularly transported long distances in the USA? I don't think I've seen eggs from outside Denmark for sale in Denmark, though many other things (cheese, meat) are.
If people in Minnesota (same population) aren't regularly buying eggs from out of state, then the comparison with Denmark holds.
> I don't think I've seen eggs from outside Denmark for sale in Denmark,
That is because of the strict rules regarding salmonella. Danish chicken farmers will test for salmonella and kill any population of chicken found to have salmonella, leaving our eggs "guaranteed" free of salmonella. Any other country that wish to sell eggs in Denmark will need to be able to make the same guarantee. This is one of the few exceptions for the free movements of goods within the EU.
Sweden, Finland and Norway seem to have the same checks as Denmark [1] but we don't see their eggs for sale here either.
But from a quick search, it looks like I've happened only to live in egg-exporting countries within the EU, which explains why I've never seen it. Even so, whole eggs don't seem to be transported great distances — most imports and exports are liquid or dried egg.
It was indeed the EU, it was the end of the low-value goods exemption if you want to search for it.
I avoid shopping from China on principle, but if ordering from Ali Express or similar you shouldn't have any problems. Of course, you pay 25% VAT on your purchases.
It was a big problem for a while before most vendors added VAT because in Sweden they hold the package for ransom against lenalty fees and the VAT, which often means you have to go get the package at a service point instead of having it dropped in your mailbox. Things are better now but that was a disaster for a while.
Ordering from Denmark, a medium or larger retailer in China would collect the Danish VAT (25%) and send that to the Danish tax authority. They'd mark the package with a transaction id for this, and it would go through EU customs without any further charges. (Presumably they still scan it for guns etc, and make random checks that these packages are labelled correctly.)
Goods ordered without using this system would be charged the 25% plus a handling fee, which is about $20 here.
However, the EU gave the logistics companies and retailers over a year to get these systems in place. The USA is taking a different approach.
Some of this was already done by the EU and UK in the last few years. The de-minimis exemption equivalent was removed [1], but with over a year's notice which allowed time for logistics companies and their clients to develop software to pay the required taxes. (If I browse Ali Express from Denmark, I see prices including 25% Danish VAT.)
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