EU import: increase in additional customs duties on certain US products
The European Commission has decided to increase the additional customs duties on certain categories of products originating in the United States on imports into the European Union from 1 May 2023.
Since July 2018, the European Union has applied additional customs duties on certain products originating in the United States (Regulation (EU) 2018/196) in response to measures that had been put in place by the US government on certain European products imported into the USA, such as steel and aluminium.
By 2021, both parties had committed themselves to resolving their disputes and measures had been lifted on a large number of products in order to ensure a balance in trade between the two parties (cf.EU/US: end of the Airbus-Boeing trade disputeand cf.EU / USA: Trade relations fall back).
Every year, Brussels adjusts its measures according to those of Washington.
In 2022, in response to the United States' failure to comply with the obligation to maintain a competitive balance established by the World Trade Organisation (WTO), the level of suspension of European measures had been adjusted through the introduction of an additional ad valorem customs duty of 0.001% on a reduced list of products.
Yesterday, Wednesday 26 April, the European Commission informed operators in the publication of OJEU L111/15 of the decision to keep the four products listed in Annex I to Regulation (EU) 2018/196 on the list. Indeed, the US authorities have failed to bring their anti-dumping laws into line with WTO obligations.
The Commission therefore decided to increase the rate ofadditional import duty from 0.001% to 0.164 %.
Identified by their eight-digit CN code, the products to which these additional import duties apply are:
- 0710 40 00: maize,
- ex 9003 19 00: bezel frames of base metal,
- 8705 10 00: crane trucks,
- 6204 62 31: Women's warp and weft trousers of cotton composition (denim).
This Regulation will enter into forcefrom 1 May 2023.
* Regulation (EU) 2018/196
Source(s): European Commission | Customs.gouv.fr
Editor(s): L. SPRIET