[spwa4]

So you're saying if I start a company in the EU that violates safety standards, copyright, trademarks, ... I will be allowed to profit of that for 3 years (let's pretend it's just 3 years that Chinese producers have been doing that) before facing any consequences and at that point STILL only be required to clean up my act (ie. not face any consequences for violations already done)?

I find this incredibly, incredibly hard to believe.

[SiempreViernes]

The EU does in fact not have an infinite amount of safety inspectors, however hard this is to believe for you.

[spwa4]

Does it have enough to submit 1 chinese package to a safety inspector every 10 year? You know, because:

1) we all know it would only take a single one

2) they didn't do this for 20 years

In all seriousness. Does ANYONE believe that the EU commission/parliament did not know about this (despite millions of complaints) and only now discovered the problem? Is that seriously your point?

Or is it somewhat more believable that they did this with the express purpose of destroying local industry and the change is happening now because we have "Mercosur" causing the same issue, but moving from China to South America.

[johanvts]

If you start the company in China and ship to EU. If you start it in a EU country I think local laws will stop you much faster than the EU commission. Still there are plenty of grifters that start fraudulent companies in the EU and roll assets into a new one as they bankrupt, and they can operate for decades before they eventually get stopped.

[spwa4]

Exactly. This was an explicit policy by the EU to allow this for a very long time, destroying local industry.