Quest for quality trumps taxes, prices

Cross-border e-commerce consumers in China should no longer worry that product prices may rise due to new regulations on taxes, leading industry players have reassured.

Prior to the new regulations that took effect on April 8, personal orders were treated as postal articles and subjected to a relatively lower postal tax.

Since April 8, however, such orders have been classified as imported goods and faced relevant tariff, a value-added tax and consumption tax.