BHETA UPDATE
December 2024/January 2025
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BHETA collaborates with Department for Business & Trade to support overseas trade
However, the ‘small parcels’ challenge is undermining the market and creating a potentially dangerous and damaging environment that needs to be addressed.”
from overseas sellers in 2023, due to the rise of the internet and the rise of shopping giants like Temu, Shein, Amazon and eBay.
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HETA (Business Home Enhancement Trade Association) is working with the Department for Business & Trade (DBT), promoting a series of events to further overseas trade.
Starting in November, the trade association is enabling members to attend advisory webinars on a range of subjects such as cultural awareness, global SEO leveraging Instagram, EU safety legislation and on November 19 at 3pm, a hugely topical subject - targeting business in the USA. BHETA’s Marketing Director, Steve Richardson, explained: “BHETA is focussing on export opportunities in a big way for 2025, starting now with an expanded export committee and a proactive series of Jones is a key speaker at the Department of Business & Trade (DBT) live export event, ‘Global Connections - Unlocking the EU market for retail and consumer goods’ in Abington OX13 6AF on November 12 – and this is a subject very much on the BHETA agenda. “The opportunities for BHETA members are such that these collaborations will provide BHETA members who export or plan to do so with really informative sessions covering both the opportunities and the practical means.”
BHETA calls on Government to clamp down on B2C sales from overseas
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in ‘small parcels’.
The inability of the Border Force to check most of these small B2C imports, has led to danger to consumers from unsafe product, massive BHETA’s (British Home Enhancement Trade Association) latest
£40. (The De Minimis threshold refers to the value below which goods can be imported into a country without incurring customs duties).
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Associated problems are the adverse impact on environmental sustainability, intellectual property violation and economic harm to producers and their employed staff grapple with standards, taxes, and but especially challenging when competitors from overseas do not have to comply.
overwhelmed. As a result, most of the small parcels enter the country with minimal or no checks. Reports suggest that customs only manage to physically check around 3-5% of total shipments, with the rest being subjected to automated or random checks. This has led to a reliance on technology and data-sharing initiatives to
target high-risk parcels, leaving lower-risk items under minimal scrutiny. contributes to a throwaway culture, with many faulty goods discarded of small packets disproportionately adds to carbon emissions due to transportation. Counterfeit goods also undermine intellectual property by legitimate companies, who face unfair competition from sellers of ‘knock-off’ products.
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