I’m pretty sure all those brands would now export those clothes to non-EU Balkan countries or even Turkey to be destroyed.
Sounds like a lot of extra work which will make this kind of behaviour less financially viable vs. just selling or overproducing it.
Indeed. Rather than deal with it, there will just be some shell company in non EU they can export to and have it destroyed there...
Though that will obviously incur a larger cost than today.