A €2 parcel tax may have just closed a French airport

France put a €2-per-item tax on parcels from Shein and Temu. At Vatry airport, parcel activity then reportedly fell 63%. The airport employs 80 people and will close, according to BFMTV. The critic who flagged it says the platforms now clear their parcels through Belgium instead. If that is right, the tax did not stop the parcels. It moved them across a border and cost French workers their jobs. It is a small, concrete case of a levy that pushes trade somewhere else rather than shrinking it.