EU customs law news overview: December 2025

Enrika Naujokė, Director at CustomsClear, presents a rapid-fire overview of the most important EU customs and trade compliance news from December 2025 and early January 2026 — essential listening for customs, trade compliance and supply-chain professionals who need to stay current.

Topics covered:

• Ten years of the Union Customs Code (UCC) and progress towards the EU Customs Data Hub, ICS2 and NCTS
• Planned e-commerce handling fee and third-country e-commerce compliance concerns
• CBAM (Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism): end-of-year regulations, certificates, verification, default values and the 2028 scope expansion
• EUDR (EU Deforestation Regulation) postponement and key rule changes
• Forced-labour products regulation and the upcoming EU risk database
• Circular economy: vehicle circularity, sustainability reporting simplification, and net-zero technology origin rules
• International sanctions: Belarus/Russia listings following the Lithuanian airspace balloon incidents, and expanding sanctions on other countries
• Tariff measures: anti-dumping, tariff quotas, steel safeguards and the EU-US countermeasures authorisation
• Trade agreements: EU-Mercosur, the PEM Convention, and new international transit conventions

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.