Yesterday, following the adoption of Commission implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/664, the European Commission has extended the ongoing suspension of retaliatory tariffs until 14 April 2025. These tariffs were initially adopted in 2018 (Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2018/886) and 2020 (Implementing regulation – 2020/502 – EN – EUR-Lex) and were supposed to reapply and come into effect tomorrow.
This decision was already announced by the EU trade commissioner during a hearing at the European Parliament on 20 March 2025. These countermeasures were introduced in response to tariffs imposed by the first Trump administration on certain steel and aluminium products and their derivatives (see our last blog for further information on this topic).
The upcoming two weeks will be crucial for businesses to monitor closely, as the future announcement by the US administration on reciprocal tariffs and the outcome of negotiations between the EU and US to mitigate the impacts of tariff retaliation will shape the EU’s response to the measures adopted by the Trump administration on imports of EU-origin products into the US.
