Maybe i can order from Japan soon, E.U. have made trade agreement with Japan, i hope no taxes if i order there.
Sorry about this a bit longish off-topic, but these wishful thinking fellow EU members, I just have to... (This text is a bit extra-long as I don't know how much each reader might already know, so buffed it a bit, just in case.)
The trade agreements usually mean that some/many products will be at 0%
customs, but you'll still have to pay the
VAT (including VAT for delivery/shipping cost). For most electronics (and other items) that I have been buying & importing, the customs has already been in 0-3% range, and I have just ignored those (meaning I pay them once the invoice comes, but I don't bother calculating them myself). It is the VAT at ~20%+ that needs to be considered, unless the item costs thousands, in which case the customs-cost might also be worthy of thinking about.
And you will likely still have to declare the imports properly (or someone else would do it for you, like shipping company service), or how else would the customs know where the items are from or what items there are inside (just in case there are items that would still have non-0% customs, or which might have restrictions). Where the package comes from does not always equal the customs-% calculation country, and someone usually has to confirm the shipping document information, etc.
Slightly simplifying, there is a very easy rule of thumb for consumers in EU: If you obey the laws, you will almost never avoid the VAT. It does not matter where the product was made (EU/china/japan/...), what agreements there are, which route it took, where and by whom it was sold it, etc.... The VAT will come in there at some point. When buying as a consumer within EU, the VAT is nicely calculated for us and included in the shown price (and the seller gives that VAT to government later). When ordering from outside EU, we need to calculate that VAT ourselves (and pay it separately). The exception is very low value orders, where many countries have threshold under which there is no need to pay the VAT, mostly because the bureaucratic costs for customs organization would be higher than the VAT the government would receive.
And because the VAT hits at so much lower threshold than customs, having 0% customs via trade agreement does not save from certain stupidly greedy shipping company extra fees; one needs to pay those fees typically for the customs processing whether it is just VAT or both customs+VAT to be paid. And quite often those fees are higher than the customs+VAT
And the trade agreements don't affect those greedy companies.
So yeah, no point in waiting for the trade agreement. When it comes, it will reduce the prices of some items a tiny bit, some rare things a bit more (there are things with higher customs-%, but I've yet to bump to one), and saves a lot of work at customs (it is much more work to get the customs-costs figured than figuring out the VAT). Those tiny price drops and less customs work means overall more trade, especially in the industrial level (which typically do not pay VAT to begin with, as the VAT is pushed towards the end-buyer), and that is what the governments and industries are after with the trade agreements.
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