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As part of ongoing EU customs reform, the EU’s Council has agreed to remove the duty-free entry of goods valued below €150, formerly known as de minimis, to address the surge in low-value e-commerce shipments. Noticing large volumes imported from foreign marketplaces, the Netherlands proposed in January 2025 to remove simplifications for individual e-commerce…

On December 15, 2025, the Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) issued Belarus General License 13, “Authorizing Transactions Involving Joint Stock Company Belarusian Potash Company, Agrorozkvit LLC, and Belaruskali OAO.” The general license authorizes all transactions prohibited by the Belarus Sanctions Regulations, 31 CFR part 548 (“BSR”), involving Joint Stock Company…

On November 15, 2025, the implementing regulation updating the EU’s Dual-Use Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2021/821) came into force. The update incorporates editorial refinements for greater clarity and coherence, introduces new entries, and further clarifies some existing ones.

These updates reflect the EU’s efforts to harmonize its export controls with recent decisions and commitments…

The European Commission recently adopted its first-ever measures under the International Procurement Instrument Regulation (IPI), restricting Chinese access to the EU public procurement market for medical devices. In this client alert, we take a closer look at the IPI and the measures that the Commission decided to adopt with regard to China, and we consider…

On October 7, 2025, the European Commission published a Proposal for a Regulation that imposes further trade restrictions on imports of steel products from non-EU countries. This Proposal is part of the implementation of the Commission’s Steel and Metals Action Plan unveiled in March 2025, and aims to address the concerns of the EU steel…

On July 24, 2025, the European Commission announced the imposition of new EU countermeasures in response to U.S. tariffs further to an agreement reached among EU Member States. These measures take the form of additional customs duties on U.S. products as well as export restrictions for certain EU products. In total, these measures concern about…

On 8 May 2025, the European Commission published new lists of products potentially subject to EU rebalancing measures in retaliation to U.S. tariffs. These proposed measures include export restrictions and additional import customs duties. They would apply if the EU-U.S. trade negotiations fail and are designed to stand alongside the previously adopted EU countermeasures which…

On February 10, 2025, President Trump signed a new Proclamation abolishing as of March 12, 2025 the quota system for the EU and imposing 25% tariffs on all steel products imported into the U.S.. This effectively puts the end to current agreement between the U.S. and the EU which kept the tariffs on steel and…

Amidst all of the discussion about potential impacts in Europe of changes to US policy, some senior politicians have raised whether the EU could use the ACI to protect its interests. This article explores what the ACI is, how it works, what remedies it provides, and how business can influence those discussions.

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