For the Carrefour chief, the European Fiscal Project on Chinese packages is a “joke.” Facing a growing influx of low -value packages of China, particularly through the Shein and Temu platforms, the European Commission wishes to impose costs of 2 euros in each small package that enters Europe. Some 4.6 billion shipments worth less than 150 euros entered the European market in 2024, including 91% of China, more than 145 every second.
“We have to take care of it because, if it continues, it is the entire commerce and distribution sector that will disappear,” said Alexandre Bompard, also president of the Federation of Commerce and Distribution (FCD).
Carrefour chief calls to “control everything” to slow down the arrival of these small Chinese packages. “We have dozens of control bodies, dozens of administrations. Mobilize them for three months, stop bothering small SMEs,” he continued. “Let’s control, we will return a difficult life,” he said.
“Not in 2027” but “tomorrow”
In addition, Alexandre Bompard supplicates a heavier tax “in the Trump”.
“Let’s make a tax, I’m sorry, God knows I’m not an amateur, ‘in the Trump’, [s’élevant à] 100% of the value of the packages, “he advanced to the CEO of the Carrefour Group, for whom” the low price at all costs “has a limit.” If this price is the disappearance of toy manufacturers, textile actors, small trade, actors in specialized distribution, the draft ecological law that is crazy […]You can’t pay that price. This price is too high and, therefore, we must act, “he said.
Alexandre Bompard calls quickly. “Not next year, not in 2027, tomorrow, because it is every day that there are commerce and distribution players that disappear,” he hit.
Source: BFM TV
