For Germany, Netherlands and Sweden, from July 15 2026 onwards VAT and the new EU tariff are prepaid by us. This means we charge the VAT amounts for those countries when you checkout your order, and won’t be charged by customs in your country, which used to be handled by the postal service on your end, so this means you save in handling fees they used to charge. We processed the new flat rate tariff of 3 eur in the shipping fee for these countries. We expect other EU countries to be added to this list in the near future.

From July 1st countries in the European Union no longer have the import tax exempt of 150 Euros. This means that on top of the sales tax (value added tax) the EU plans to implement a system to raise an import tax on all goods coming in from outside of the EU. That system though isn’t gonna be in place yet and until late 2027 the plan is to charge a fee of 3 euro that gets charged per category. So on top of taxes that amount will be charged. If you order 1 or 5 cd’s you pay just that 3 EUR as it are items in the same category. If you order one cd, one cassette and one photobook, 9 EUR will be charged as that are three categories. These charges will be raised by your local postal service, likely with the method they always used to charge you taxes.

Korea Post suddenly suspended the standard small package service to a large amount of countries. We tried to update the shipping fees to match the actual shipping rate per standard air package instead, which is more expensive for especially the lighter packages. Hopefully the service will resume later, but this is unclear at this point. Luckily many major destinations like USA, Canada, UK, Germany, France, Brazil, Spain, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, China, Netherlands and some other countries remain unaffected.