On 1 July 2026, the EU will begin levying a flat customs duty of EUR 3 on goods contained in consignments valued at EUR 150 or less entering the EU. The measures outlined in this blog are set out in Council Regulation (EU) 2026/382, as well as in the updated UCC-IA and UCC-DA. They remove the long-standing customs duty exemption for low-value imports and marks the first concrete step in the EU’s broader customs reform…
On 17 May 2023, the European Commission (the “Commission”) published a set of proposals that, according to the Commission, constitute the “most ambitious and comprehensive reform of the EU Customs Union since its establishment in 1968.” Please find our previous blogpost in which we anticipated the proposal here. The proposals now published aim to: Additionally, the proposals also intend to change the EU VAT Directive to align VAT rules with the new customs framework. This…