What's the difference between duty-free shops and counter cosmetics?
The difference between duty-free shops and counter cosmetics lies in packaging and hygiene monitoring, and the tax is different. Generally speaking, it is impossible for a product to deliberately open two production lines for two different trading links, so they will only have some differences in packaging and hygiene monitoring. Of course, not everyone can buy duty-free shops, because they need exit tickets and passports, and the counters are directly oriented to the public, so the prices are relatively high.
Duty-free shops in China mainly include port duty-free shops, traffic duty-free shops, local duty-free shops, diplomatic duty-free shops, ship replenishment duty-free shops and foreign exchange duty-free shops for people outside China. Duty-free shops are exempt from value-added tax or consumption tax, and the types of taxes and fees exempted by duty-free shops in different countries are different. Counters are counter goods in shopping malls and cannot be refunded, so in many cases, the price of duty-free shops will indeed be much less than that of shops after tax refund.
To sum up, this is their difference.