The suspension is effective from today, 6 August 2025.
The European Union has published Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/1727 of 5 August 2025 in the Official Journal of the European Union on 5 August 2025, which suspends the commercial rebalancing measures introduced by Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/1564 of 24 July 2025.
These measures, which included import duties of 4.4% to 30% on selected US products, were initially set to phase in from 7 August 2025 to 7 February 2026 in response to US tariffs. The suspension follows the EU-US trade deal announced on 27 July 2025 and will last six months to support the deal’s implementation.
The suspension goes into effect on 6 August 2025.
Earlier, US President Donald Trump and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced a new US-EU trade agreement on 27 July 2025.
The US-EU deal sets a 15% US tariff on most EU imports, including cars, semiconductors, and pharmaceuticals, thereby avoiding a planned 30% reciprocal tariff that was set to take effect on 1 August 2025. This trade deal prevents Trump’s planned 30% tariff on EU imports and avoids EU countermeasures on USD 109 billion of US goods.
