Emergency brake applied on oat imports from Ukraine

The trade measures in favor of Ukraine came into force on June 6 and on the 18th of this month the so-called “emergency brake” was activated for oat imports. Furthermore, this mechanism will soon be launched also for the eggs, which have reached the triggering threshold. The same could happen with sugar, which was already at the limit even before the new regulations came into force. On June 18, the European Commission adopted a regulation that allowed the activation of the automatic safeguard measure for oat imports from Ukraine from the following day (and until June 5, 2025). This “emergency brake” is activated automatically if the accumulated imports since January 1 reach the arithmetic mean of the quantities imported in the second half of 2021, in 2022 and in 2023. Specifically, Brussels indicates that the tariff quota of 4,000 tons provided for in the association agreement between the EU and Ukraine will be reintroduced. However, in this case, since the quantities imported ...