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News in week 41: classification of a robot designed to be used in firefighting and of a projector with tuner in a single housing; the penultimate session of the WCO HS Committee before submitting … the provisionally adopted amendments for HS 2028 to the Council for adoption; CJEU clarified that the repeal of anti-dumping duties has no retroactive effect; anti-dumping proceeding concerning hardwood plywood from China; expiry review of anti-dumping on mixtures of urea and ammonium nitrate; amendment of tariff quotas in the rice and dairy products sectors; updated CBAM documents; EU brings product liability rules in line with digital age and circular economy; requirements for products with digital elements; tasks of the single national contact points of the Safety Gate Rapid Alert System; amendments to restrictive measures in view of Russia’s destabilizing activities.

In this article, the author outlines the content of his presentation and the subsequent questions and answers session during the meeting of the Council's Customs Union Working Group (CUG) on … 19 September 2024, in Brussels. The author was invited by the Hungarian Presidency as a customs law expert.

UK-Ukraine Digital Trade Agreement. Suspension of 30 arms export licenses to Israel. Moving the “Rest of World” sheepmeat, poultry and beef to Northern Ireland. Important updates on the implementation … of the Windsor Framework, the TSS system and the 'Not for EU’ labelling for retail products across Great Britain. New TRA anti-dumping investigation on Chinese tin mill. New trade sanctions against Iran. Launch of the ‘Apply for a SIEL’ service (LITE) public beta.

News in week 39: Union Customs Code Annual Progress Report 2023; EU Single Window Environment for Customs - amended regulation, laid down rules for information exchange; compilation of the national … control lists adopted by Spain, The Netherlands and France; pilot project for a 'comparative study on best practices for a stronger EU sanction enforcement'; updated guidance for industry on preventing Russian export control and sanctions evasion; new CBAM Self Assessment Tool; Commission Annual Report on the EU’s Anti-Dumping, Anti-Subsidy and Safeguard activities; Commission decision to register all imports of products under anti-dumping or anti-subsidy investigations; classification of panties, at importation declared as ‘incontinence management system’; and more news!

Compliance means that a person or organisation complies with the applicable laws and regulations of their own accord or adheres to them. Learn about the international standard definition of compliance … and what customs authorities do to ensure compliance.

‘Other legislation applied by the customs authorities’ means legislation other than customs legislation applicable to the goods entering, exiting, passing through the customs territory of the … Union, or to be placed in the Union market, in the implementation of which the customs authorities are involved.

Uniform customs laws apply in a customs territory and there are no internal customs duties or similar taxes. A customs territory comprises territories including their territorial waters, inland … waters and airspace.

There are five main steps in the standard customs risk management process as defined by the World Customs Organization: establish context, identify risks, analyse risks, assess and prioritize … risks and address risks. In addition to these five steps, risk management requires constant monitoring and review.