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EU packaging rules apply, with PFAS limits on food-contact packaging
11 Aug · European Commission
In practice: Where you send physical product to the EU, get written confirmation from your packaging suppliers that food-contact packaging meets the PPWR PFAS limits: 25 ppb for any individual PFAS and 250 ppb for the sum by targeted analysis, excluding polymeric PFAS, and 50 ppm for total PFAS including polymeric. The limits catch non-intentionally added and polymeric PFAS, so a supplier saying it adds no PFAS is not the same as compliance, and there is no sell-through transition: packaging first placed on the EU market from 12 August 2026 must comply regardless of when it was made, even though labelling, recycled content and recyclability duties only phase in from 2028 and 2030.
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UK-India deal in force: register with HMRC before you certify origin
In effect since 15 Jul 2026
In practice: Registration with HMRC is a precondition of self-certifying origin, so your Indian buyer cannot claim the preferential tariff until it is done: it ties the EORI number HMRC holds for your business to a primary email plus up to 10 additional addresses used to send declarations. Register each email address against one EORI only, as HMRC warns that an address registered to multiple EORIs may fail authentication and have its origin declarations rejected by Indian customs, leaving your importer on full duty, and send the Origin Declaration Template for every consignment to both [email protected] and your importer.
Source: HM Revenue & Customs
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