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The Commission has adopted a Delegated Regulation updating the EU dual-use export control list in Annex I to Regulation (EU) 2021/821.

The Commission has proposed today to renew the suspension of import duties, quotas and trade defence measures on Ukrainian exports to the European Union – known as the Autonomous Trade Measures (ATMs) – for another year.

The EU believes that more substantive deliberation of today’s trade issues at the World Trade Organization (WTO) can help avoid trade tensions by promoting converging approaches to today’s policy challenges.

On 8 February, Vietnam extended the validity of existing marketing authorisations of pharmaceutical products until 2024. For the next two years, EU exporters of pharmaceuticals will thus avoid having to go through complex procedures for the renewal of their marketing authorisation.

Today, the Commission has terminated an ongoing expiry review investigation concerning anti-dumping measures on imports of hot-rolled flat steel products (HRFS) from Ukraine and thus anti-dumping duties on said imports from Ukraine are no longer in place.

The EU-New Zealand trade agreement has today taken a big step towards ratification, with the Commission sending it to Council for signature.

Costa Rica has today removed a 10% tax on imported beers which had been discriminating against EU beers. This tax had put EU beers at a disadvantage by making them more expensive than local beers.

Ukraine is one step closer to the EU's free roaming area today, as the Commission adopted a proposal to incorporate roaming into the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement.

Today, the Commission imposed definitive anti-dumping measures on imports of ceramic tiles originating from India and Türkiye for a period of five years.