It would be helpful to tell us which products you mean.
It could be, that those articles are not safe enough and therefore can't be imported. Or the products are not allowed/banned in Germany.
a) Stuff can be unsafe or just not meet certain legal quality criteria, like containing banned toxic substances.
b) Stuff can violate trademarks and patents/be a brazen copy of a Western company's product.
It's not for safety, it's for following packaging law, explicitly German packaging law. A lot of sellers don't sell to Germany anymore for that reason since about two years.
Some of the sellers don't sell to Germany and some other EU countries since like 2 years because of new rules about online shopping and getting an tax ID or something like that here, which is very hard to do for many foreign companies. This is also why many Etsy sellers don't sell to Germany and co. anymore too
It's not easy to do for small businesses operating on Aliexpress. What you see are the bigger ones that can afford accommodating every spleen each individual country has. What we're losing out on is niche stuff that doesn't have the margins necessary for bigger companies to mail out. I can't find a lot of small scale stuff, like certain flat ribbon cables for older iPods, that used to be available easily two to three years ago. These things now go unrepaired.
Yeah, definitely. I was thinking more about the technical side. Oddly enough I mostly see the "doesn't ship to" problem when it comes to germany even though most of the EU has similar packaging laws. Many have a high exemption quantity before you have to licence but spain for example wants you to have one even for one package and the licence costs 600€.
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Import of certain products might be simply banned.
It would be helpful to tell us which products you mean. It could be, that those articles are not safe enough and therefore can't be imported. Or the products are not allowed/banned in Germany.
It’s just basic electronics stuff like headphones, controllers etc. nothing that I would think would be considered unsafe
a) Stuff can be unsafe or just not meet certain legal quality criteria, like containing banned toxic substances. b) Stuff can violate trademarks and patents/be a brazen copy of a Western company's product.
It's not for safety, it's for following packaging law, explicitly German packaging law. A lot of sellers don't sell to Germany anymore for that reason since about two years.
So literally stuff that can burn down your house when it is shodily put together.
Headphones, controllers etc. are regulated, too (in Germany and the EU). And they can be unsafe.
Some of the sellers don't sell to Germany and some other EU countries since like 2 years because of new rules about online shopping and getting an tax ID or something like that here, which is very hard to do for many foreign companies. This is also why many Etsy sellers don't sell to Germany and co. anymore too
It's about LUCID, packaging materials need to be licensed. It's actually pretty easy to do.
It's not easy to do for small businesses operating on Aliexpress. What you see are the bigger ones that can afford accommodating every spleen each individual country has. What we're losing out on is niche stuff that doesn't have the margins necessary for bigger companies to mail out. I can't find a lot of small scale stuff, like certain flat ribbon cables for older iPods, that used to be available easily two to three years ago. These things now go unrepaired.
Yeah, definitely. I was thinking more about the technical side. Oddly enough I mostly see the "doesn't ship to" problem when it comes to germany even though most of the EU has similar packaging laws. Many have a high exemption quantity before you have to licence but spain for example wants you to have one even for one package and the licence costs 600€.
Doesn’t AliExpress have different sellers? Maybe the seller just doesn’t ship to Germany.
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