Export Helpdesk becomes "Trade Helpdesk"

This week the Commission's online portal "Export Helpdesk" will change its name into "Trade Helpdesk - your online guide to access Europe's market". This portal has initially been designed to inform exporters in developing countries on the EU's rules and regulations for market access for goods and now covers all countries with whom the EU has trade agreements with. The new URL: tradehelpdesk.europa.eu (a re-direct will be installed from the Export Helpdesk site)

Within a few minutes, companies will be able to check:

• The duties they pay at customs
• Health, safety, marketing and technical standards their products need to meet
• Rules of origin define under which conditions they can claim preferential duty rates under the trade agreement applying to the exporting country
• Internal taxes applied in the importing EU country
• Forms to send with their shipments
• Trade statistics related to their product