Responding to the announcement that the UK Government will review the customs treatment of Low Value Imports, Helen Dickinson, Chief Executive of the British Retail Consortium, said:
The announcement of the review into the de minimis rules is most welcome and shows that the government has listened to the concerns and representations of retailers and the BRC and that it is prepared to take swift action to protect consumers from goods being dumped in the UK, many of which fail to meet UK environmental and ethical standards, as a result of global trade turmoil.
A review of this policy, which was designed to reduce the burden on low volume, low value imports, was already needed. With retailers seeing a rise in the number of potentially non-compliant products entering the UK market, it’s even more critical now.
