EU customs law update: April 2025

Recorded webinar in which CustomsClear's Enrika Naujokė reviews the EU customs and trade legal developments of April 2025, week by week, explaining what changed and why it matters for customs and trade compliance professionals.

Topics covered:

• US executive order resolving overlapping tariffs, and a US tariff-offset scheme for automobiles/car parts
• EU anti-dumping and countervailing duty news, including aluminium road wheels from Morocco, mobile access equipment from China, and steel track shoes
• The EU's tariff suspension scheme for scarce materials, and its underuse
• Pan-Euro-Mediterranean (PEM) rules of origin updates, including parallel original and transitional rule sets, and Tonga's accession to the EU-Pacific States Interim Partnership Agreement
• A Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU) ruling (Case C-330/24) on customs classification, Binding Tariff Information (BTI) and the three-year limitation period for amending a customs debt
• EU Sanctions Help Desk resources for SMEs, an update to Article 5n of the EU's Russia sanctions regime, and renewed Moldova sanctions
• EESC opinions on artificial intelligence and adult education
• WCO news on customs' role in government revenue and the Revised Kyoto Convention
• AEO mutual-consultation deadlines between member states
• EU-Singapore digital trade agreement, Ecodesign Regulation and Digital Product Passport developments
• The Access2Markets database, EU-US tariff dispute background (including the EU's 90-day tariff pause), EU arms export control framework revision, national control lists, and "omnibus" simplification of sustainability rules (EUDR, Stop the Clock)

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.