EU–US Trade Agreement – What Is It About?
Since 1 July 2026, the trade agreement between the EU and the USA has been in force. Formally, this is Regulation (EU) 2026/1455,…
Customs
Fact Check: Non-Preferential Origin
In our legal advisory work, we are seeing that questions concerning the non-preferential origin of goods are currently arising in many companies, which…
EU Steel Safeguard Measures
It had long been announced: on 30 June 2026, the existing safeguard measures on steel expire and are replaced by the new safeguard…
EFA Conference in Dortmund: The Future of World Trade – A Renaissance of Tariffs and Trade Restrictions
Nothing less than the future of world trade was the subject of discussion among participants at the 37th EFA Conference last Thursday and…
Guest Contribution by Bernd Seemann: The Underestimated Risk – How an Incorrect Customs Tariff Number Becomes Costly under Embargo Law
A supposedly well-established product portfolio, a small classification error, and a transaction with an apparently unproblematic third country: often that is all it…
Update: EU-Mercosur Agreement
Since 1 May 2026, the EU-Mercosur Interim Trade Agreement (ITA) has been provisionally in force (published in the Official Journal of the EU,…
First the General Rules… Or How Do You Classify Modern High-Tech Goods with Multiple Functions?
The recent decision of the Federal Fiscal Court (BFH, judgment of 21.11.2024, case no. VII B 76/23) concerns the question of how to…
IEEPA, CBP, ACE, and CAPE: The Refund of Unlawfully Collected U.S. Tariffs
Since the recent court decisions and the launch of the CAPE system, the recovery of unlawfully collected U.S. tariffs is no longer merely…
The 20th Sanctions Package: A New Phase of Sanctions Policy
There are new sanctions rules against Russia. The so-called “20th sanctions package” was actually supposed to appear as early as the anniversary of…
