As the UK’s new Vaping Products Duty and duty stamp scheme take effect (see our companion briefing, “UK Vaping Products Duty: Eight Actions Businesses Must Take Immediately Before 1 October 2026”), enforcement agencies across several countries are reporting a related but separate trend.
The UK Vaping Products Duty starts on 1 October 2026, alongside a new duty stamp scheme with its own timetable. VAT continues to apply separately. Further retail restrictions follow on 29 October 2026. With under four weeks left, this briefing sets out eight practical actions for any business that manufactures, imports, stores or sells vaping products in the UK.
Since 1998, World Trade Organization members have periodically renewed a commitment to continue the practice of not applying customs duties to electronic transmissions – the moratorium that has underpinned duty-free treatment of software downloads, streaming, e-books, cloud services and other digitally delivered products.
For companies doing business in the EU, the convergence of competitiveness reform and geopolitical pressure is rewriting the rules of market access, business planning, compliance, and investment. This article assesses how Europe’s competitiveness and security agendas are converging, and sets out how businesses can turn that growing complexity into competitive advantage.
A new Netherlands measure, taking effect on 22 September 2026, prohibits the import, purchase and sale of goods originating in unlawful Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories and the occupied Syrian Golan Heights, together with services that facilitate that trade. It also prohibits brokering and circumvention of the ban.
Switzerland and China have finished negotiating a revised free trade agreement that promises near-total duty-free access. Here is what has actually changed today, and what compliance teams still need to watch before it does.
Rotterdam handled 397 million tonnes of freight in 2024, more than any other port in the European Union and equal to 11.8% of all freight tonnage moved through EU ports that year, according to Eurostat. That is more than Antwerp-Bruges (244 million tonnes) and Hamburg (97 million tonnes) combined.
A new WCO study finds that recycled and remanufactured goods often fall through the gaps in preferential trade rules built for new products. Here is what it means for trade compliance teams.
£6.4 million. That is what Airbus Operations Limited has paid HMRC for breaches of UK strategic export controls.