Yesterday, following the adoption of Fee implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/664, the European Fee has prolonged the continued suspension of retaliatory tariffs till 14 April 2025. These tariffs have been initially adopted in 2018 (Fee Implementing Regulation (EU) 2018/886) and 2020 (Implementing regulation – 2020/502 – EN – EUR-Lex) and have been imagined to reapply and are available into impact tomorrow.
This resolution was already introduced by the EU commerce commissioner throughout a listening to on the European Parliament on 20 March 2025. These countermeasures have been launched in response to tariffs imposed by the primary Trump administration on sure metal and aluminium merchandise and their derivatives (see our final weblog for additional info on this matter).
The upcoming two weeks will likely be essential for companies to watch carefully, as the longer term announcement by the US administration on reciprocal tariffs and the result of negotiations between the EU and US to mitigate the impacts of tariff retaliation will form the EU’s response to the measures adopted by the Trump administration on imports of EU-origin merchandise into the US.
