More cheap parcels exported from China are flowing into the UK than rival European economies, undermining British retailers that want the government to accelerate a promised crackdown.
Chinese export data shows $1.8 billion of cheap parcels entered the UK between December and April, the sixth-most globally and more than France and Germany combined. Though the total was 11% lower than a year earlier amid a global slowdown, the drop was far smaller than in France where the government implemented a tax on the parcels in March.
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