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(1250)Product identifiers: what to declare from 1 November 2026
Editorial Board20 Oct 2026
Product identifiers: what to declare from 1 November 2026
From 1 November 2026, customs declarations for goods sold online to EU customers must carry product identifiers. The codes are not new. Sellers use them to list products, and manufacturers use them to track stock. What is new is that customs want them too. The reason becomes clear in a...
E-commerce
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Union handling fee: EUR 2 per item on e-commerce imports
Editorial Board20 Oct 2026
Union handling fee: EUR 2 per item on e-commerce imports
On 8 October 2026 the Commission announced that its guidance on the EUR 3 customs duty now also covers the Union handling fee. The fee is EUR 2 per item and is expected to apply from 1 November 2026. This article answers three questions: does the fee apply to my...
E-commerce
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Digital product passport (DPP): the product record customs will check
20 Oct 2026
What the digital product passport is, which products must have one and from when, how the EU registry works, and what customs will check in the declaration.
Procedures
EU customs and trade news: October 2026
Editorial Board04 Oct 2026Updated 18 Oct 2026
EU customs and trade news: October 2026
News in brief: 1 569 Russia listings in the military-industrial complex, including a Russian customs broker with warehouses in Europe; the General Court is asked whether ready-to-drink coffee, tea and cocoa drinks fall under heading 2101 or 2202; a larger safeguard quota for ferro-manganese from Malaysia, backdated to 18 November...
News
News update
EU law update & Losing simplifications with the new UCC
EU law update & Losing simplifications with the new UCC
05 Nov 2026 15:00 - 16:00 (CET)
Online eventEvery day, EU customs and trade law changes - quietly, constantly, and with real consequences for your business. Some changes take effect immediately. Others signal something bigger on the horizon. Miss them, and you risk non-compliance. Catch them in time, and you stay ahead of the curve. That's exactly why...
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UK CBAM emissions and verification regulations laid: what importers need to knowEditorial Board15 Oct 2026
UK CBAM emissions and verification regulations laid: what importers need to know
On 9 September 2026, the UK Government laid the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (Emissions and Verification) Regulations 2026 (Statutory Instrument 2026/995) and updated its CBAM policy summary. Together they set out how importers must calculate, evidence and keep records of the carbon embodied in imported goods, less than four months...
Sustainability
News in focus
Can the EU strike a balance between worker protection, innovation and global AI competitiveness?
Ramūnas Šablinskas13 Apr 2025Updated 14 Oct 2026
Can the EU strike a balance between worker protection, innovation and global AI competitiveness?
Editor's note: Continuing the theme of the previous article (see 'Discussion of the most important AI risks'), the author looks at how the EU is trying to reconcile worker protection, innovation and global AI competitiveness while taking full account of citizens' concerns. The author discusses a recent opinion of the...
Digitalisation
Perspective
How can you train an artificial intelligence system to do what you need?Ramūnas Šablinskas12 Oct 2025Updated 14 Oct 2026
How can you train an artificial intelligence system to do what you need?
This article aims to explain how artificial intelligence (AI) systems are trained, how they differ from traditional programmes, and – most importantly for your daily work – when they can be trusted and what to expect from them in the future. We recognise the need for, and importance of, this...
Digitalisation
Perspective
PPWR: one manufacturer per packaging, a producer per member state
Janina Bary12 Oct 2026
PPWR: one manufacturer per packaging, a producer per member state
The Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR), Regulation (EU) 2025/40, replaces a directive with a regulation that applies directly in every member state from 12 August 2026. Member states still decide on the competent authorities, the registers for extended producer responsibility and the penalties. At the time of recording, by...
Sustainability
PPWR compliance starts in purchasing, not at the border
Jan-Joost den Brinker12 Oct 2026
PPWR compliance starts in purchasing, not at the border
The Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR), Regulation (EU) 2025/40, applies from 12 August 2026 and reaches every step of the packaging supply chain, from the overseas maker of a packaging component to the brand owner who has boxes made under its own name. The speaker’s estimate is that about...
Sustainability
New Union Customs Code: what applies now and what comes next
Anthony Buckley08 Oct 2026
New Union Customs Code: what applies now and what comes next
The new Union Customs Code, Regulation (EU) 2026/2108, was published on 19 September 2026 and entered into force on 20 September 2026. It applies in general from 21 September 2027. Some provisions already apply, and others follow in stages until 2034. In this recording, Anthony Buckley, former Head of Irish...
Customs law
EU law update: what changed in September and early October
EU law update: what changed in September and early October
08 Oct 2026
The new Union Customs Code, Regulation (EU) 2026/2108, entered into force on 20 September 2026 and applies from 21 September 2027. The Commission has also changed the product list of the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR), which applies from 30 December 2026. The Council has renewed the Ukraine-related asset freezes until...
Customs law
NEW! CCRM Issue 40: the new Union Customs Code, EUDR and forced labour
NEW! CCRM Issue 40: the new Union Customs Code, EUDR and forced labour
08 Oct 2026
Dear Reader, From 1 March 2034, customs declarations can no longer be lodged. Importers will provide their data through the EU Customs Data Hub instead. That is one of the changes in the new Union Customs Code, published on 19 September 2026. Issue 40 of the Customs Compliance & Risk...
UK customs and trade news: September 2026Editorial Board04 Oct 2026
UK customs and trade news: September 2026
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
News update
Ukraine customs and trade news: August/September 2026Editorial Board03 Oct 2026
Ukraine customs and trade news: August/September 2026
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;...
Customs law
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