EU customs law news overview: October 2025

A monthly customs and trade compliance news round-up, in which Enrika Naujokė (CustomsClear) walks through the key EU and global customs developments of October 2025 across ten topic areas — essential viewing for compliance professionals who need a fast, structured overview of what changed and why it matters.

Topics covered:

• EU customs reform and the EU Customs Data Hub, including the new EU Customs Authority hosting application process and the Digital Product Passport
• Artificial intelligence in trade policy and customs compliance, including WTO findings and new EU AI strategies
• International sanctions: the 19th EU sanctions package against Russia, the mirrored Belarus package, and other listing updates
• Customs classification: the 2026 Combined Nomenclature, WCO HS Committee decisions, and their impact on Binding Tariff Information (BTI)
• Customs valuation: recent CJEU rulings on successive sales and customs warehousing, and a new WCO instrument on price actually paid or payable
• Rules of origin, including digital certificates of origin and the emerging "melt and pour" origin concept in the steel and aluminium sector
• Trade agreements: EU-Ukraine, EU-New Zealand, Uzbekistan, and EU-Morocco developments
• Anti-dumping and countervailing duty updates, registration and expiry review procedures
• Sustainability: CBAM simplifications and the EUDR postponement
• Customs transit: Moldova and Montenegro joining the Common Transit Convention

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.