The European Commission adopted an Implementing Regulation on 31 July 2026 extending, without an end date, the suspension of EU rebalancing measures covering EUR 93 billion of US imports, first introduced under Regulation 2025/1564 in response to threatened US tariffs, while reserving the right to reactivate the measures if needed to defend EU interests. 

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The European Commission has adopted an Implementing Regulation extending the suspension of EU rebalancing measures on US exports to the European Union on 31 July 2026. The decision means that the rebalancing measures, adopted last summer in the context of the risk of very high US tariffs on EU exports, will remain suspended without an end date.

The EU’s decision to suspend its rebalancing measures marks another important step in favour of greater certainty and stability in transatlantic trade, and the determination of the EU to implement what is set out in the EU–US Joint Statement of 21 August 2025.

The EU expects the US to fully honour its commitments as well under that Joint Statement.  In line with the provisions of the Implementing Regulation, the Commission will keep the suspension of the rebalancing measures under continuous review. In case it becomes necessary to defend the EU’s interest, the Commission may at any time take further action, including by reactivating these rebalancing measures.

The EU rebalancing measures were adopted on 24 July 2025, via Commission Implementing Regulation 2025/1564, in response to the US threats of very high US tariffs, and in case no negotiated solution could be achieved. The package of measures covered EUR 93 billion of EU imports from the US and imposed an export restriction for 95 million of EU exports to the US.

Following the successful meeting between Presidents Von Der Leyen and Trump in Turnberry on 27 July 2025 and the announcement of the political arrangement, which avoided the very high US tariff increases, the EU suspended the application of the package.

The adopted Commission Implementing Regulation will ensure the seamless continuation of the suspension adopted earlier this year via  Commission Implementing Regulation 2026/295, which was set to expire on 6 August 2026.

Earlier,  the European Union published Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/1727 of 5 August 2025 in the Official Journal of the European Union on 5 August 2025, which suspended the commercial rebalancing measures introduced by Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/1564 of 24 July 2025.