EU customs law update: February 2025

Enrika Naujokė
Enrika Naujokė
Director, CustomsClear, Lithuania
Published 09 Mar 2025

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This webinar recording gives customs and trade-compliance professionals a structured overview of EU customs-related legal developments from February 2025, from CBAM simplification and the 16th sanctions package to tariffs, classification, e-commerce and IT systems.

Topics covered:

  • The EU's 2025 "bolder, simpler, faster Union" work programme and the wider drive to cut regulatory red tape
  • The CBAM simplification package, including the new 50-tonne de minimis exemption and simplified declarant/emissions/financial-liability rules
  • The 16th EU sanctions package against Russia and the parallel Belarus alignment package: aluminium import ban, export restrictions, transport-ownership caps, new listings, shadow-fleet vessels, and financial/infrastructure measures
  • The European Commission's Q&A on the US "reciprocal tariff" policy and EU-US car/pickup-truck tariff comparisons
  • Ongoing anti-dumping and countervailing duty proceedings, and the use of import registration
  • Reclassification of LED strips and simplifications for declaring musical-instrument accessories
  • E-commerce low-value consignments and the proposed abolition of the €150 duty exemption
  • IT systems developments: the Automated Export System transition period and the extension of ICS2 to road and rail transport

For a broader overview of the topic, please watch the full recording. The slides are available in the Resources section.

Please note that this summary was generated using AI, based on the recording and available slides.