(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,