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EU customs and trade news: December 2024

December 29, 2024
EU customs and trade news: December 2024

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News in weeks 51 and 52: 15th package of restrictive measures against Russia and Belarus; Interim Agreement on trade between the EU and Chile; Georgia to join the Common Transit Convention; preparation for the entry into force of the Revised PEM Convention on 1 January 2025; CBAM upcoming changes at the beginning of 2025; EUDR application postponed by 12 months; new EU rules on sustainable packaging; CJEU on the interpretation of the Article 15 and Article 42(1) and (2) of the UCC; classification of facial wipes packaged for retail sale, unfilled seating bag (so-called beanbag) and hard metal sticks made of cermets; suspension of the Common Customs Tariff duties on certain products; amendments to autonomous tariff quotas; review of steel safeguard to protect EU steel industry; safeguard investigation into imports of alloys; anti-dumping duty on seamless pipes and tubes; definitive anti-dumping duty on optical fibre cables; and more news!

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