Tariff updates
What changed, what it costs, and when it took effect. US measures, EU and UK measures, each with a worked example on its own page and its own verification date. Where a figure is contested or in litigation the page says so rather than guessing.
Latest updates
The most recently dated items across both sections, newest first.
United States, 2026
Six measures are doing most of the damage to importer margins this year. Each page sets out what changed, who it hits, a worked cost example, and what is still unsettled. All verified 28 August 2026.
European Union and United Kingdom
Six measures that move landed cost by a comparable amount to the US changes, covered in full. One of them is on a clock: the EU flat duty is temporary and it expires 1 July 2028.
The UK £135 duty relief is going. What replaces it has not been decided.
Draft legislation withdraws the £135 customs duty relief and leaves two questions open: the day it happens, which a statutory instrument will appoint, and what a low value parcel costs afterwards, which nobody has stated. Six questions, and which of them have answers.
Read the detailOne EU parcel charge is law. The other is still a proposal.
The flat €3.00 customs duty is adopted and charged. The proposed handling fee is not: it has no adopted amount and no adopted start date, and the Council says so in both of the releases that announced the duty. Six questions that tell them apart.
Read the detailThe EU €3 low value consignment duty, priced per parcel
A flat €3.00 per item replaced the duty relief on EU-bound consignments worth €150 or less on 1 July 2026. It is counted off tariff classifications rather than value, it is charged instead of the percentage rate rather than on top of it, and it expires 1 July 2028. Four consignments priced line by line.
Read the detailEU countervailing duties on Chinese EVs in 2026
EU anti-subsidy duties of 7.8% to 35.3% still apply to Chinese built electric vehicles, unless the producer holds a price undertaking accepted by the Commission.
Read the detailEU €150 duty relief abolished: what importers pay now
The EU scrapped its €150 customs duty relief on 1 July 2026. Low value parcels now carry a temporary €3 duty per item, billed to the seller, until 1 July 2028.
Read the detailUK Border Target Operating Model: what it costs, and why it is already being unwound
BTOM is fully in force, and a UK to EU sanitary agreement intended for mid 2027 would remove most of it again. The per consignment cost is the common user charge, capped at £145.
Read the detailSources cited across these pages: bis.gov, budgetmodel.wharton.upenn.edu, cbp.gov, congress.gov, federalregister.gov, hts.usitc.gov, ustr.gov, whitehouse.gov, plus the national customs authority named on each country guide. US measures last verified 28 August 2026, and each EU and UK article carries its own date. This index last verified 2 September 2026.
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