
Good customs decisions rest on current knowledge and depth - and both take continuous learning to maintain. Customs Compliance & Risk Management (CCRM) journal is how practitioners keep pace.
We publish new articles online continuously, gathered into an edition every two months. They follow what is changing in EU customs and trade compliance, alongside the jurisdictions that matter most to EU trade - the UK, the US and Ukraine among them. And they work through what it means in practice.
We go past the news to what a sound decision needs: what changed, why it matters, and what to do. Every article is grounded in primary law and written by a named expert. Country updates, CJEU rulings, and analysis of the regimes reshaping trade - the UCC, rules of origin, CBAM, e-commerce duty - build the knowledge practitioners draw on to decide with confidence.
The Editor-in-Chief is Enrika Naujokė, based in Lithuania. The Editorial Board brings together experts from several countries - among them Dr Ilona Mishchenko in Ukraine, Dr David Savage in Ireland, Ira Reese in the United States and Omer Wagner in Israel.

Trade preferences could still be utilised more - EUR 73.5 billion of eligible imports entered without them in 2025; EU sanctions on 20 persons and 17 entities over deported Ukrainian children and the barring of Yabloko; import ban on grain from occupied Ukrainian territories also covers transit, the Commission explains;...

News in brief: UK Global Tariff and other reference documents updated for 1 October 2026, including steel tariff-rate quotas, tariff suspensions and authorised use; CPTPP preferential tariff and origin reference documents updated; new UK vaping products duty and vaping duty stamps scheme to apply from 1 October 2026; UK CBAM...

News in brief: Ukraine moves forward with EU-aligned e-commerce VAT rules; new Customs Code passes first reading; Ukraine steps up preparations for the EU's definitive CBAM regime, focusing on emissions verification, accreditation of Ukrainian verification bodies and the review of default emissions values; IMEI declaration becomes mandatory for mobile-phone imports;...

Update 21-27 September: EUDR - updated Information System guide covers the simplified declaration and the new role for non-SME traders; Commission puts forward a handling fee of EUR 2 per item; EU-Philippines - substantial agreement on a free trade agreement; customs reform - Commission expects the handling fee on low-value...

On 17 September 2026 the Commission published the change to the product list of the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) - three and a half months before the regulation starts to apply. Leather, conveyor belts and retreaded tyres are out. Soluble coffee, soap and palm-based chemicals are in from 30 December...

On 19 September 2026 the new Union Customs Code was published in the Official Journal as Regulation (EU) 2026/2108. The regulation also establishes the European Union Customs Authority. It entered into force on 20 September 2026 and applies from 21 September 2027. What changes, and when? This article gives a...

The EU ban on products made with forced labour applies from 14 December 2027. The Commission's guidelines on how it will work were published on 3 September 2026. Nothing in your declarations changes yet, because customs act only once an authority has taken a decision naming particular products and suppliers,...

From 1 October 2026, imports of the steel products covered by the new EU Steel Regulation must be accompanied by evidence of the country in which the steel was melted and poured. This is not a condition for a tariff quota or a preference. It is a condition for the...

News in brief: UK CBAM - provisional list of qualifying carbon pricing schemes published; toys and games - classification guidance for hobby horses, creativity sets, toy projectors and scale model vehicles; UK-US trade negotiations page updated to reflect July 2026 Section 301 tariffs (UK at 10%, whisky and some medtech...

Update 24-30 August: CBAM verification and accreditation guidance published, registry access for verifiers opened; updated PEM cumulation matrix opens new possibilities; anti-dumping reinvestigation opened concerning imports of titanium dioxide from China; ISIL/Al-Qaida list identifying data amended across 21 entries; Russia sanctions - updated FAQs; EUCDM incorporates the EUR 150 distance-sales...
Trade preferences could still be utilised more - EUR 73.5 billion of eligible imports entered without them in 2025; EU sanctions on 20 persons and 17 entities over deported Ukrainian children and the barring of Yabloko; import ban on grain from occupied Ukrainian territories also covers transit, the Commission explains;...
News in brief: UK Global Tariff and other reference documents updated for 1 October 2026, including steel tariff-rate quotas, tariff suspensions and authorised use; CPTPP preferential tariff and origin reference documents updated; new UK vaping products duty and vaping duty stamps scheme to apply from 1 October 2026; UK CBAM...
News in brief: Ukraine moves forward with EU-aligned e-commerce VAT rules; new Customs Code passes first reading; Ukraine steps up preparations for the EU's definitive CBAM regime, focusing on emissions verification, accreditation of Ukrainian verification bodies and the review of default emissions values; IMEI declaration becomes mandatory for mobile-phone imports;...