Although online shopping continued to boost before the pandemic, especially in the run-up to Christmas, restrictions on buying Christmas gifts in 2020 have been more pronounced, according to Restrictions. money center of the article.
The newspaper wrote that thanks to record sales at the end of the year, online retail was able to show a 45 percent increase, putting Hungary at the forefront of the European Union, according to GKI Digital research.
The newspaper contacted the National Administration of Taxes and Customs (NAV) to find out which non-EU countries received the most packages from abroad, as well as what those packages contained.
The Customs Service’s response revealed that while 187,390 parcels were handled in 2020, this number rose to 731,294 from January 1 to September 30, 2021, not just in postal traffic.
However, the significant increase may be due not only to the actual increase in sales volume, but also to the change in customs rules and the value-added tax for e-commerce from July 1, 2021, which requires all products imported into the European Union to be cleared through customs, and was not VAT must be paid on all products.
In 2019, by September 30, the most common starting point for shipments containing goods from abroad (about 58,000) was China, followed by the United States, Singapore, Japan, Malaysia, South Korea, and Hong Kong.
By the end of September 2020, China was also at the top of the list (31403 applications), followed by the United States (17,440), Singapore (2546) and Japan (2204), followed by Australia (1074).
By this year, 2021, the number of parcels shipped and cleared through customs in China has increased by 414,000.
In 2020, the most popular product group was food and nutritional supplements. This was followed by cell phones and accessories. Electronic components, clothing, toys, digital cameras, beauty and skin care products, goods made of various plastics (such as buttons, furniture handles, ornaments), eye shadows, lamps, and chandeliers.
The fact that packages under 22 euros have already been included in the database since July 1 has completely redrawn the energy balance: packages with nutritional supplements have fallen to eighth place. Plastic goods topped the list, followed by toys, books, T-shirts, bags, jewelry and foil.
