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Ordinary legislative procedure First reading

Additional customs duties on imports of certain products originating in the United States of America

A proposed EU law. Parliament and the Council must agree on the same text: Parliament adopts its position, then negotiates with the Council.

Where it stands: Completed: published in the Official Journal on 22 April 2025 and now EU law.

  1. ✓ Referred to committee 10 March 2025
  2. ✓ Committee work Report adopted 19 March 2025
  3. ✓ Tabled for plenary 21 March 2025
  4. ✓ Plenary vote Adopted 1 April 2025
  5. ✓ Negotiations with the Council
  6. ✓ Published as law 22 April 2025
How a file moves through Parliament

A file is referred to one lead committee (others may give an opinion). Its rapporteur writes a draft report, committee members table amendments, and the committee votes to adopt the report. The report is then tabled for all MEPs; political groups can table further amendments, which are voted on before the final vote in plenary. For a law, Parliament’s adopted text is its first-reading position; Parliament and the Council then negotiate a common text (trilogues) which both must approve before it is published as law.

Who is working on it

Lead committee
INTA — International Trade
Rapporteur
Bernd LANGE S&D

The rapporteur drafts and negotiates the text for the lead committee; each other political group names a shadow rapporteur to follow the file.

The text, version by version

Adopted by Parliament · latest Adopted text TA10-0050/2025 1 April 2025 ✦ Parliament's amended version of the proposed regulation amends Regulation (EU) 2018/196 on additional customs duties on imports of certain products from the USA.⇄ what changed Tabled for plenary Report A10-0034/2025 21 March 2025 ✦ Parliament adopts the Commission proposal to amend Regulation (EU) 2018/196 by adding a de minimis threshold for retaliation duties on US imports, below which no duties apply.

Latest Tabled for plenary → Adopted by Parliament: The adopted text replaces the committee's explanatory statement with the final legislative act and its reference. see the changes →

Newest version first. Open a version to read it in full. “What changed” shows the differences paragraph by paragraph; ✦ lines are AI-written from the texts themselves.

Timeline

  1. Outcome
  2. 22 April 2025 Published in the Official Journal

    The act is now EU law.

  3. 14 April 2025 Signed by the Presidents of Parliament and the Council

    The last step before the act is published in the Official Journal.

  4. Plenary stage
  5. 1 April 2025 Plenary vote
    Sitting of 1 April 2025 📄 Adopted text TA10-0050/2025📄 Report A10-0034/2025
    Adopted Adopted by an overwhelming majority
    For 593 Against 7 Abstained 35

    Final vote on the provisional agreement at 13:27 · 93% of votes cast in favour · every MEP’s position →

  6. 27 March 2025 1 amendment tabled for the plenary vote

    Groups propose changes to the tabled text; each is voted on before the final vote.

    📄 Amendment 1
  7. 21 March 2025 Report tabled for plenary

    This is the text all MEPs vote on. Political groups can still table amendments to it.

    📄 Report A10-0034/2025
  8. Committee stage
  9. 19 March 2025 Committee vote: report adopted

    INTA (International Trade) voted on the amendments and adopted the report that goes to plenary.

  10. 10 March 2025 Referred to the INTA (International Trade) committee

    The lead committee prepares Parliament’s report.