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Decision

Customs duties on imports of certain products originating in the USA

Effect
Passed
Result
593 for · 7 against · 35 abstained roll call
Date
1 April 2025, 13:27
Kind
New EU law · 1st reading
More facts (8)
Margin
by an overwhelming majority
Source
Committee report by Bernd Lange
Topics
Trade & customsForeign affairsEconomy & single market Assigned by a model, not checked by hand.
Votes
1 vote · 1 roll call
Final vote
174055
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Result

The final vote and what it means for this kind of decision.

Final vote: 593 for, 7 against, 35 abstained (roll call).

Passed by an overwhelming majority.

Parliament adopted its position on the law.

Backed by The Left, Greens, S&D, Renew, EPP, ECR and Patriots; ESN mostly abstained.

Groups

Members' votes, each counted in the group they belonged to on the day. No vote: in office that day, no position recorded. Majority line: the most common position. Clear line: a position with at least two thirds of the group's votes (at least 10 members voting), otherwise Divided. Cohesion: Agreement Index, 0 = evenly split, 1 = all voted the same (method).
GroupForAgainstAbst.No voteMajority lineClear lineCohesionBar
The LeftFor 41Against 0Abst. 0No vote 5 of 46Majority line ForClear line For Cohesion 1.00
GreensFor 51Against 0Abst. 0No vote 2 of 53Majority line ForClear line For Cohesion 1.00
S&DFor 119Against 0Abst. 0No vote 17 of 136Majority line ForClear line For Cohesion 1.00
RenewFor 65Against 0Abst. 0No vote 10 of 75Majority line ForClear line For Cohesion 1.00
EPPFor 172Against 0Abst. 0No vote 16 of 188Majority line ForClear line For Cohesion 1.00
ECRFor 60Against 0Abst. 14No vote 6 of 80Majority line ForClear line For Cohesion 0.72
PatriotsFor 65Against 6Abst. 1No vote 14 of 86Majority line ForClear line For Cohesion 0.85
ESNFor 4Against 0Abst. 15No vote 7 of 26Majority line AbstainedClear line Abstained Cohesion 0.68
No groupFor 16Against 1Abst. 5No vote 6 of 28Majority line —Clear line No line Cohesion —

Members who changed group are counted in the group of the day: Branko GRIMS changed group, Elena YONCHEVA changed group, Elisabetta GUALMINI changed group, Ewa ZAJĄCZKOWSKA-HERNIK changed group, Fernand KARTHEISER changed group, Jessika VAN LEEUWEN changed group, Laurent CASTILLO changed group, Lukas SIEPER changed group, Malika SOREL changed group, Nikola BARTŮŠEK changed group, Nikolas FARANTOURIS changed group, Pina PICIERNO changed group, Roberto VANNACCI changed group, Sander SMIT changed group, Taner KABILOV changed group.

Voted against their group, 25

Members who voted otherwise than a clear line (at least two thirds of the votes cast, at least 10 members voting) of the group they sat in that day. A group without a clear line is divided and not counted.

Countries

The final vote by national delegation.

Votes by country (27 delegations)
Members' votes by country. No vote: in office that day, no position recorded. Cohesion: Agreement Index of the delegation, 0 = evenly split, 1 = all the same; it reflects the mix of groups (method).
CountryForAgainstAbst.No voteCohesion
Austria146000.55
Belgium190031.00
Bulgaria140210.81
Cyprus5001—
Czechia210001.00
Germany7209140.83
Denmark140011.00
Estonia7000—
Spain511080.97
Finland140011.00
France7000111.00
Greece130620.53
Croatia110011.00
Hungary200011.00
Ireland130011.00
Italy6300131.00
Lithuania90200.73
Luxembourg6000—
Latvia9000—
Malta3003—
Netherlands290021.00
Poland3301460.55
Portugal190021.00
Romania260071.00
Sweden200011.00
Slovenia8001—
Slovakia100230.75

Members

Each member’s recorded position on the final roll call, in the group they sat in that day. Filter by country, group, position or name.

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Debate speakers and how they voted

Members who spoke in the plenary debate on the dossier. Speeches: how many times they took the floor. Final vote: their recorded position on this decision's final roll call.
MemberGroupSpeechesSpokeFinal vote
Esteban GONZÁLEZ PONS SpainEPPSpeeches11 Apr 2025 (verbatim report, official site) For

All votes on this decision, 1

In voting order. Result: for–against–abstained (a show of hands has no count). Requested by: the groups that asked for a roll call, a split vote or a separate vote.
No.VoteRecordedResultRequested by
1Final vote on the provisional agreement A10-0034/2025 – Bernd Lange – Provisional agreement – Am 1 Roll call593 for, 7 against, 35 abstained Adopted

Text

The text voted on.

Report A-10-2025-0034

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The proposal amends a 2018 EU regulation on additional customs duties on US imports by adding a de minimis threshold below which no duties apply.

Parliament adopted its position at first reading, taking over the Commission proposal, meaning the amendment can proceed.

Parliament asks the Commission to refer the matter back if it substantially amends the proposal, and forwards its position to the Council, Commission and national parliaments.

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Parliament adopts the Commission proposal to amend Regulation (EU) 2018/196 by adding a de minimis threshold for retaliation duties on US imports, below which no duties apply.

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Dossier

Where the dossier stands and its other decisions in plenary.

2025/0012(COD) · Ordinary legislative procedure

Additional customs duties on imports of certain products originating in the United States of America

Completed: published in the Official Journal on 22 April 2025 and now EU law.

Show the 6 steps of the dossier
  1. Referred to committee · 10 March 2025 (done)
  2. Committee work · Report adopted 19 March 2025 (done)
  3. Tabled for plenary · 21 March 2025 (done)
  4. Plenary vote · Adopted 1 April 2025 (done)
  5. Negotiations with the Council (done)
  6. Published as law · 22 April 2025 (done)

Lead committee: INTA · Rapporteur: Bernd LANGE (S&D)

Connections

What this decision touches: the procedural chain, the same text, running issues, votes that split the chamber the same way.

Show 9 connections: Running issue: EU–US trade deal · Other decisions of the part-session on INTA dossiers

Running issue: EU–US trade deal

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Sources & citation

Where the facts on this page come from, and how to cite it.

Retrieved
25 September 2026

Cite as

European Parliament (2025). “Customs duties on imports of certain products originating in the USA”. Decision, 1 April 2025. votingId 174055, document A-10-2025-0034, reference 2025/0012(COD). EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/decisions/2025-04-01/7 (retrieved 25 September 2026). Official sources: Roll-call votes, sitting of 1 April 2025 (European Parliament), https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/PV-10-2025-04-01-RCV_EN.html; Results of votes, sitting of 1 April 2025 (European Parliament), https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/PV-10-2025-04-01-VOT_EN.html. Data: EP Open Data API: decisions of the sitting MTG-PL-2025-04-01, https://data.europarl.europa.eu/api/v2/meetings/MTG-PL-2025-04-01/decisions?format=application%2Fld%2Bjson (CC BY 4.0).
BibTeX
@misc{epw-decision-2025-04-01-7,
  author = {{European Parliament}},
  title = {{Customs duties on imports of certain products originating in the USA}},
  year = {2025},
  date = {2025-04-01},
  howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/decisions/2025-04-01/7}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/decisions/2025-04-01/7},
  urldate = {2026-09-25},
  publisher = {EU Parl Watch Research},
  note = {Decision. votingId 174055, document A-10-2025-0034, reference 2025/0012(COD). Official source: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/PV-10-2025-04-01-RCV\_EN.html, https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/PV-10-2025-04-01-VOT\_EN.html. Data: EP Open Data API: decisions of the sitting MTG-PL-2025-04-01 (CC BY 4.0)}
}