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Exporting from the EU - what you need to know

The Market Access Database (MADB) gives information to companies exporting from the EU about import conditions in third country markets:

  1. Tariffs
    • Duties & taxes on imports of products into specific countries
  2. Procedures and Formalities
    • Procedures & documents required for customs clearance in the partner country
  3. Statistics
    • Trade flows in goods between EU and non-EU countries
  4. Trade barriers
    • Main barriers affecting your exports
  5. SPS: Sanitary and Phytosanitary Issues
    • Food safety/animal health/plant health measures
  6. Rules of Origin
    • Preferential agreements & rules of origin

 

Help us counter trade barriers ▼

We will determine whether these barriers breach international trade rules, and, if so, take appropriate action to remedy them, for example by formally requesting that the country in question remove them or asking for them to be delayed, so you can adapt to the change and/or use up your stocks.

1. Report any barriers to your exports that are not in the Trade Barriers section.

2. Tell us how technical barriers to trade (TBT) already notified to the Commission may hinder your exports.

3. Launch a formal procedure under the EU's Trade Barriers Regulation (TBR) if you think your business is being negatively affected by a trade obstacle. The Commission then investigates and determines whether there is evidence of a violation of international trade rules.

 

Importing into the EU?

 

Latest updates

  • 17-May-2013 Costa Rica The import documentation for Costa Rica has been reviewed and adapted accordingly. The following changes have been made:

    Animals and animal products

    The following document has been updated with regard to the application form displayed therein:

    Registration of Importers of Live Animals and Animal Products.

    Operating permits

    The Costa Rican legislation differentiates between two kinds of operating permits required for goods posing a risk to human health:

    Veterinary Operating Certificate (CVO)
    Sanitary Operating Permit (PSF).

    In order to clarify which permit is necessary for which activity, i.e. for the handling or processing of which goods, the assignment of HS-Codes to these measures has been reviewed and adapted.
    Related modifications have also been brought to the quoted documents and to the section entitled Sanitary Permits in this overview.

    Hazardous pesticides and chemicals

    After the contact details of the Designated National Authorities (DNAs) appointed in the scope of the Rotterdam Convention as well as information on the Official Contact Point (OCP) related to procedures under the Stockholm Convention had been added to the section on Hazardous Goods and Waste in this overview with the previous update, the following document has now become a new part of this import documentation:

    Export Notification for Goods Coming under the Rotterdam Convention.

    Costa Rican participation in trade agreements

    The section on Preferential Treatment has been enhanced with regard to Costa Rica's interest in becoming a member of the Pacific Alliance and to the status of the free trade agreement (FTA) between Mexico and Central America.
  • 17-May-2013 El Salvador Changes of tariff rates.
  • 17-May-2013 Jordan Nomenclature changes. Changes of tariff rates. Changes of preferential tariff rates. Amendments to the internal taxation.

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