EU trade and customs developments in weeks 10-14
Enrika Naujokė
Director, CustomsClear, Lithuania
Published 19 Apr 2026
Enrika Naujokė, Director of CustomsClear, presents the monthly EU trade and customs compliance news round-up for weeks 10-14, giving customs and trade compliance professionals a fast, structured update across eight key areas.
Topics covered:
- EU customs reform: the first agreement between the European Parliament and Council on the new Union Customs Code package, and the location and role of the new EU Customs Authority
- CBAM developments, including the certificate price for the first quarter and access delegation for non-EU operators
- The new EU packaging and packaging waste regulation and what it means for importers
- Four recent Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) judgments on TARIC quotas, customs valuation of label design costs, export price as a basis for customs value, and the sanctions treatment of goods linked to Russia
- Antidumping, countervailing and safeguard measures affecting a range of imported products
- US tariff developments on pharmaceuticals, aluminium, steel and copper
- Free trade agreement news, including the EU-Australia agreement, the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement (Gibraltar), and the EU-Mercosur agreement
- International sanctions updates, including Iran, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Russia and Ukraine
- CERTEX (EU Customs Single Window) developments, including new Irish export system business rules
- New and upcoming CustomsClear platform features, including an AI-powered news assistant
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.