Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/1727 of 5 August 2025 suspending commercial rebalancing measures concerning certain products originating in the United States of America and certain products exported from the Union to the United States of America imposed by Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/1564
Date: 2025-08-05
Institutions: Directorate-General for Trade and Economic Security, European Commission
Subjects: GATT, United States, export (EU), export restriction, import (EU), import levy, import restriction, most favoured nation, originating product, specification of tariff heading








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2025/1727


5.8.2025







            COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) 2025/1727
of 5 August 2025
         
suspending commercial rebalancing measures concerning certain products originating in the United States of America and certain products exported from the Union to the United States of America imposed by Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/1564


THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,

Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,


Having regard to Regulation (EU) No 654/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 May 2014 concerning the exercise of the Union’s rights for the application and enforcement of international trade rules and amending Council Regulation (EC) No 3286/94 laying down Community procedures in the field of common commercial policy in order to ensure the exercise of the Community’s rights under international trade rules, in particular those established under the auspices of the World Trade Organization (1), and in particular Article 7(3) and (4) thereof,

Whereas:







(1)


On 24 July 2025 the Commission adopted Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/1564 (2) that provides for the application of additional customs duties on imports into the Union of specified products originating in the United States of America (‘the United States’) as well as for the application of restrictions on the export to the United States of certain products originating in the Union (‘the rebalancing measures’).












(2)


The measures imposed by Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/1564 were aimed at counter-balancing the safeguard measures in the form of additional customs duties which the United States had introduced on imports of certain steel and aluminium products and steel and aluminium derivative products, certain passenger vehicles and light trucks, certain automobile parts, certain beer and empty aluminium cans, and a wide range of agriculture, fishery and other industrial products, originating in the Union, referred to in recitals 1 to 7 of Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/1564.












(3)


On 27 July 2025 the Union and the United States reached a political agreement as regards their trade relationship, providing, inter alia, for immediate tariff relief for Union imports to the United States. As a result, the United States committed to imminently modify certain tariffs applicable to Union imports in line with that political agreement, reducing the applicable rate to a maximum of a 15 % ad valorem.












(4)


In light of the developments referred to in recital 3, and to ensure effective implementation of the political agreement, the application of the Union’s rebalancing measures should be suspended. Accordingly, no written notice to the Council for Trade in Goods of the World Trade Organization as regards the application of those measures is currently necessary and that notice should be suspended.












(5)


The Commission should keep the suspension under review in light of further developments in the trade relations with the United States, and may take further actions.












(6)


This Regulation is without prejudice to the Union’s position considering that the safeguard measures of the United States remain incompatible with the Agreement Establishing the World Trade Organization.












(7)


In view of imperative grounds of urgency justified by the need to suspend the imminent application of the rebalancing measures in order to ensure effective implementation of the political agreement referred to in recital 3, the provisions of this Regulation should apply immediately. For the same reasons, the provisions of this Regulation, should enter into force on the day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union. Pursuant to Article 8 of Regulation (EU) No 182/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council (3), this Regulation shall remain in force for six months.












(8)


In accordance with Article 8 of Regulation (EU) No 182/2011, at the latest 14 days after its adoption, the Commission should submit this Regulation to the Trade Barriers Committee for its opinion,





HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:



Article 1
The application of Articles 1, 2 and 3 of Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/1564 shall be suspended.


Article 2
This Regulation shall enter into force on the day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.




This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
Done at Brussels, 5 August 2025.


For the Commission


The President

Ursula VON DER LEYEN
            





(1)  
            OJ L 189, 27.6.2014, p. 50, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2014/654/oj.

(2)  Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/1564 of 24 July 2025 on commercial rebalancing measures concerning certain products originating in the United States of America and certain products exported from the Union to the United States of America, and repealing Implementing Regulations (EU) 2018/724, (EU) 2018/886, (EU) 2020/502 and (EU) 2025/778 (OJ L, 2025/1564, 24.7.2025, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg_impl/2025/1564/oj).

(3)  Regulation (EU) No 182/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 February 2011 laying down the rules and general principles concerning mechanisms for control by Member States of the Commission’s exercise of implementing powers (OJ L 55, 28.2.2011, p. 13, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2011/182/oj).


ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg_impl/2025/1727/oj
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