Why shipping to some countries is so expensive

Welcome to Italy! Unfortunately, between bureaucracy and ridiculous or absurd laws, we Italians are forced to always find a solution to everything. Ironically, European shipments are not expensive but are related to the size of the package (!) While the international ones have other parameters including some laws from last year that made us crazy to ship to some countries. The result is that we can ONLY ship to certain countries and as we resolve cost issues we update the site accordingly. Some freight forwarders certainly offer much lower costs but then the shipment gets stuck at customs and comes back.