What???
You can protect certain goods from foreign substitues if:
- they (certain goods which have same consumer properties) do exist
- your goods are already restricted by other countries
- production is limited by rare resources and can last only if goods will be consumped/recycles not far away from manufacturing
You can check how big manufacturing contribution in GDP of your country (I suppose less than 30%), check growth of international services import/export and get the idea: goods is not greatest sector for such restrictions, actually, protecting 1000 employers you protect 100000 buyers from better goods and lower prices.
This rules wouldnt make big difference for most eu citizens (as I know most chinese stores already have warehouses in EU), but can be a problem for enthusiasts that practice purchasing rare things. So (if this idea will be implemented) it defenetly requires some decision for flashlight modders from EU.
I dont know how this fee (€13) was planned to devided by postage and customs. This are two different problems that we shouldnt mix. I see reasons of increasing shipping rate by national postage servises. International post documents were wrote long time ago but now there are no countries that can live with this rules without big losses. Just compare smallest goods (not letters) shipping rate inside you country with cheapest item youve ever got from ali. National post services cant carry this losses, while number of $1 parcels from ali increases each year.