Temu, Kari Elisabeth Kaski | SV will make Temu more expensive – and Fretex cheaper

SV will make it more difficult to order goods from the other side of the world. At the same time, it will be cheaper to go to second-hand shops. Now they are taking the case to the Storting.

– It makes zero sense that goods produced in China are cheaper than short-traveled goods, says SV’s fiscal policy spokesperson Kari Elisabeth Kaski to NTB.

She points out that we currently have a duty exemption on clothing of up to NOK 3,000.

– In practice, we have customs regulations in Norway which mean that cheap chains such as Temu and Wish are not covered, and therefore become a much better alternative for people than used chains such as Fretex, for example, she says.

She warns that SV will shortly put forward a proposal in the Storting to:

* Reduce VAT on second-hand purchases

* Remove “the environmentally hostile duty exemption on fast fashion”

* Reduce the VAT on repairs

– From climate considerations, it is quite obvious that we must make it easier to buy used than new. The rules today have a completely opposite effect, and of course we have to do something about that, says Kaski.

– I fully understand that people fall for this type of cheap goods, but I hope people think twice.

(© NTB)