AreaEuropean Union

Commodity GroupRice

CommodityAll

Date09/11/2022

Policy CategoryTrade

Policy InstrumentSafeguard measures

DescriptionThe Court of Justice of the European Union issued a ruling annulling a 2019 regulation that had imposed safeguard measures on selected classes of semi/wholly milled rice originating in Cambodia and Myanmar (CN codes 10063027, 10063048, 10063067 and 10063098) and through which import tariffs on these classes of rice had been reinstated for three years, starting from 19 January 2019. Subsequent to this ruling, in January 2023, the European Commission re-opened the safeguard investigation that led to the original imposition of the safeguard measures to address issues identified by the Court and to determine whether in doing so the re-imposition of the safeguard measures would be warranted. If this was warranted to be the case, the reintroduction of the safeguard tariffs would be retroactive, being levied on imports of the selected classes of rice from Cambodia and Myanmar that took place between 18 January 2019 and 18 January 2022.