News / Liege customs could block ecommerce shipments after 'losing patience'

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Administrator general of Belgian customs, Kristian Van der Waeren, has “lost [his] patience” with non-compliant ecommerce coming into Liege airport and threatened to block shippers not playing by the rules. 

Mr Van der Waeren introduced himself as “a pain in the ass for ecommerce” to delegates at this week’s EU CBEC ecommerce forum in Liege, Belgium. 

“We have a tremendous explosion of ecommerce here in Liege. We have had 500m declarations already this year, business is doing well and that is a ...