{"id":1361467,"date":"2026-02-23T13:36:29","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T11:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/ordering-from-temu-and-aliexpress-what-duty-and-vat-will-you-have-to-pay-for-purchases-from-abroad-in-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T13:36:29","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T11:36:29","slug":"ordering-from-temu-and-aliexpress-what-duty-and-vat-will-you-have-to-pay-for-purchases-from-abroad-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/ordering-from-temu-and-aliexpress-what-duty-and-vat-will-you-have-to-pay-for-purchases-from-abroad-in-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Ordering from Temu and AliExpress: what duty and VAT will you have to pay for purchases from abroad in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>In 2026, Ukraine will retain a duty-free limit of EUR 150 for international postal items. If this amount is exceeded, a 10% duty and 20% VAT will be charged only on the excess amount.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> This is reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/sud.ua\/uk\/news\/obshchestvo\/354045-shoping-na-temu-i-aliexpress-kakie-tamozhennye-pravila-deystvuyut-v-2026-godu-i-skolko-pridetsya-zaplatit\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the &#8220;Judicial and Legal Newspaper&#8221;<\/a> .<\/p>\n<p> Customs reminded that if the invoice value of the goods does not exceed 150 euros, taxes are not applied. If the amount is higher, additional payments are calculated only from the difference between the actual value and the established limit.<\/p>\n<p> In particular, if the order costs 200 euros, the 50 euros excess is taxed.<\/p>\n<p> The calculation looks like this:<\/p>\n<ul><\/p>\n<li> duty &#8211; 10% of 50 euros, i.e. 5 euros;<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li> VAT is 20% of 50 euros plus 5 euros in customs duty, which is 11 euros.<\/li>\n<p><\/ul>\n<p> The total amount of additional payments in this case is 16 euros at the NBU exchange rate.<\/p>\n<p> Customs officers pay special attention to parcel aggregation. If a postal operator or express carrier combines several shipments for one recipient into one customs clearance, and their total value exceeds 150 euros, there is an obligation to pay customs duties and VAT.<\/p>\n<p> Thus, even several separate purchases may be subject to tax if they are combined during customs clearance.<\/p>\n<p> Experts recommend to buyers:<\/p>\n<ul><\/p>\n<li> check current limits before placing orders;<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li> do not underestimate the value of the goods in the customs declaration;<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li> save screenshots of orders to confirm the invoice price.<\/li>\n<p><\/ul>\n<p> Transparent declaration and compliance with the rules allow you to avoid delays at customs and additional costs.<\/p>\n<p> Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Twitter<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> , and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2026, Ukraine will retain a duty-free limit of EUR 150 for international postal items. If this amount is exceeded, a 10% duty and 20% VAT will be charged only on the excess amount. This is reported by the &#8220;Judicial and Legal Newspaper&#8221; . Customs reminded that if the invoice value of the goods does [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":189986,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76875,76878],"class_list":["post-1361467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-other-news","category-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1361467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/54"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1361467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1361467\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1361467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1361467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}