Cathy Zhou

The unit price of a clear PET egg tray gets negotiated to the third decimal place. The freight bill that moves it is often accepted as a fact of life, quoted once and paid many times. That habit costs importers real money, because the number of trays that fit in a container is not set

Since 12 August 2026, a package sold in the European Union has had to satisfy one regulation instead of twenty seven national readings of a directive. Regulation (EU) 2025/40, known as PPWR, replaced rules that had stood for almost thirty years. For egg packers and importers who buy clear PET trays, the date that matters