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In the uk, only around 20— 25% of products being bought by english buyers were bought from english sellers, the rest would come from europe and the logic behind that is that uk was part of the bigger european ecosystem and part of the bigger supply and demand. and with brexit, overnight, when brexit happened, a lot of focus was on the import tariffs, but with brexit overnight on every single product being bought and sold in europe from the uk and vice versa had a vat mark—up of up to 20%. so for every uk buyer, every year, imp and product being sold was 20% more expensive and vice versa. s...

Not having to pay shipping fees, not having to pay import tariffs, it was cheaper for them to buy in europe. you're a business, obviously. how do you make your money? we take a cut. so we take a 15% cut on average, plus a 3% payment fee. so 18% the sale price of every single product that's being sold on the platform. how do you police the authenticity of the goods that you sell? this is the core and the heart of our business, how we've differentiated ourselves to ebay 12, 13 years ago when the business has been set up, we've built so much expertise through the authenticators that we have in ou...

The rest would come from europe and the logic behind that is that uk was part of the bigger european ecosystem and part of the bigger supply and demand. and with brexit, overnight, when brexit happened, a lot of focus was on the import tariffs, but with brexit overnight on every single product being bought and sold in europe from the uk and vice versa had a vat mark—up of up to 20%. so for every uk buyer, every year, imp and product being sold was 20% more expensive and vice versa. so literally overnight all the products became 20% more expensive. and on top of that, you add the complexity o...

Prices as being much cheaper. and us sellers, despite us buyers not having to pay shipping fees, not having to pay import tariffs, it was cheaper for them to buy in europe. you're a business, obviously. how do you make your money? we take a cut. so 18% the sale price of every single product that's being sold on the platform. how do you police the authenticity of of the goods that you sell? this is the core and the heart of our business, how we've differentiated ourselves to ebay 12, 13 years ago when the business has been set up, we've built so much expertise through the authenticators that we...

A WTO ruling on Trump-era import tariffs has reignited the trade spat between the United States and China