• Barbecue Cowboy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    16 hours ago

    I think it may be a question of how involved the EU really is, are they even technically ‘selling’ an item in the EU? Yeah, obviously, people are buying and having it shipped to the EU, but if a product ships straight from a factory in China designed by a business in the US with no real presence in the EU, I’d imagine there’s likely just not a lot they could do to hold them to EU law.

    Feels like the worst they could do would be to just not let them ship their product into the country anymore.

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      7 hours ago

      Thats exactly what happens. In order to be imported they need to be CE stamped. If its found imports are coming through misappropriated or unstamped there are fines for all involved, from manufacturers to resellers to logistics firms.