Kakobuy and the EU customs change: two notices and an old help page

The notice opens with the operator's understanding, passed on from its logistics partners: from 1 July 2026 the duty exemption for EU parcels valued below €150 is removed, and customs may charge a fixed €3 for each different product category in a parcel. Several items of one category are generally charged once; several categories multiply the charge.

Note the wording: "may calculate", "may be charged", "generally". Kakobuy is describing the rule as it was told to them, not quoting the regulation. Our job here is the dates, so we take that description at face value and track what Kakobuy promised in response.

The notice works through three examples: T-shirts only, €3; T-shirts and shoes, €6; T-shirts, shoes, bags and accessories, €12. Then the promise: Kakobuy will charge only €3 per parcel, regardless of how many categories are inside, and cover the difference itself.

The June notice says the charge is added at parcel submission and describes Kakobuy handling the covered customs payment. Confirm your particular line’s current eligibility and any recipient duties before relying on it. In calendar terms, that means the €3 lands on your second payment, the one that also carries shipping subsidies and freight coupons. If you are timing a parcel to catch a subsidy window, the €3 is part of the same bill.

Two sentences decide how long the promise lasts. Kakobuy "will make every effort to maintain this subsidy policy", and "if we are no longer able to continue this subsidy in the future, we will notify you separately in advance".

So the promise has no end date, but it has a defined way of ending: a separate notice, published ahead of the change. That gives you a simple check before any EU parcel: open the announcement list and look for an EU notice newer than 23 June 2026. If there is none in the list you read, that only describes the available notices; the current parcel terms must still confirm the charge. This archive records the list checked on 10 October 2026. Check the current operator notices and parcel terms before paying.

The help article "National tariffs for each country" still prints a threshold table with the European Union at 22 EUR, Spain at 30 USD and the United Kingdom at 15 GBP, and notes that only 0.3% of packages have been taxed so far. The article itself says the figures were collected from internet data, for reference only. The help system dates the article to 2022-06-01.

The EU 22 EUR figure is the pre-2021 VAT threshold, two rule changes ago. We do not treat the table as wrong so much as frozen: an undated page that predates both 2026 notices. When a help page and a dated notice disagree, follow the dated notice, and check the line description in the estimator, which shows route-specific terms that must be checked together with the parcel checkout.