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[-] TheMightyCat@ani.social 2 points 4 days ago

Take this with a grain of salt as i am not an expert but when i looked into it if you sell knowing it will go to a forwarding service to a specific country legally it then counts as selling to that country and the seller is on the hook for all the regulations so they have to block it.

[-] erebion@news.erebion.eu 1 points 1 day ago

If you order from another place you'd be importing.

If, for example, you order something from China to somewhere in the European customs union, directly from China and not a European company, you'd be the importer and as such are responsible for following your country's regulations.

Imagine being a seller and someone from another country, perhaps one you don't know much about and one that is not in a customs union with the country you are in, orders something from you. There's no reason you would have to comply with regulations of that country.

[-] gegil@sopuli.xyz 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Then it is a regional restriction. Its one thing when company does not bother selling it in other country, and a completely different thing when it is intentionally restricting product sales in those countries. And unlike software, physical products cannot be just pirated, while smuggling is significantly risker.

[-] TheMightyCat@ani.social 2 points 4 days ago

Again i don't know for sure but from my understanding to answer this question and the one you asked ironblossom.

If a company accepts payment and ships to a fowarding service knowing it is going to a certain country then that is legally the same as if they shipped it themselves.

If their product is not certified to be sold in that country the seller now can face heavy fines.

If their product is defective and causes damage and they don't have insurance for that country then the seller can be on the hook for heavy payouts.

To prevent this the seller must block the sale.

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