No, they don't. You have at least two VAT rates, and my country has four:

- Staple food (rice, basically? Probably flour too) as well as healthcare: 0%.

Food and common, staple products (soap, condoms, probably other), some cultural products (books, theater tickets, probably other), electricity, water: reduced rate (5.5%)

'vacation' rate: camping bookings, alternative healthcare, zoo, movies, restaurants (10%).

Everything else is 20%, whatever the brand or the producer. I know because I actually checked my transaction tickets for a long time (and my first journey b was writing an OCR to automatically analyze those tickets to ask for VAT reimbursement)

No, they don't. As noted in the link you provided the VAT rate on an import sale is the same as the VAT rate for a non-import sale.

There is a whole table with different numbers that vary by EU country. Look for "List of (import) VAT rates in EU countries"

That's an overview of the VAT in different countries, nothing to do with origins.

Aaah. That makes sense. Thanks!