EU making import even more complicated. This is one of the handy reasons to have a residency in Paraguay. I order all the essentials including medicine, electronics, etc while there. I use a forwarding address in the US. Customs and forwarding is per kg with zero bureaucracy. They don't even need to see an invoice.

It's quite funny that I have to use a South American country to actually order stuff and that it is easier than shipping to Europe. But that's the situation you get when your country decides to join a cartel that is proud that their main innovation is forbidding things (which regulation is - everything that is not forbidden is allowed).

On a related note, I also use a Paraguayan data plan. EU wanted to regulate the prices of roaming to make it more accessible. I get the unregulated plan that is cheaper than the regulated one that was made to make roaming cheaper.

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