Welcome to the February 2019 edition of Baker McKenzie's International Trade Compliance Update.
Here are the highlights:
- UN: best practices guide for sanctions committees
- WTO: recent disputes, DSB activities, TBT notifications
- WCO: news releases
- CPTPP Commission meets
- CITES notifications
- Canada: consultations on WTO e-commerce negotiations, CFIA Safe Food regulation
- Mexico: FTA procurement thresholds
- United States: export disputes, national emergencies, Proclamation modifying HTS, PTPA environmental consultations, Sec. 301 mitigation strategies, Special 301 consequences, UE-EU negotiating objectives, cultural property protection, additional Venezuela sanctions, scope of Chinese aluminum extrusion orders
- Argentina: export duties on services, inflation adjustment
- Australia: indexation of customs duties on excise-equivalent goods, no substantial transformation by encapsulating fish oil
- China: cross-border e-commerce, revised anti-corruption powers in new Criminal Procedure Law
- Hong Kong: tax incentives for R&D
- India, FSSAI draft regulations, plant quarantine draft regulations, safeguard issues, import licensing
- Thailand: new investment and tax scheme on international business center, postponed dual-use regulations
- Vietnam: CPTPP issues and entry into force
- EU-EFTA: EU-Japan SPA, EU-US negotiations recommendation, EEA EFTA-UK separation agreement
- UK: UK-ESA trade continuity agreement, UK export penalties, UK-New Zealand mutual recognition, UK Trade Remedy Authority, Parliament defeats Brexit plan
- EAEU: changes in non-preferential origin rules
- Russia: expands import ban for Ukrainian goods
- Cote d'Ivoire: public procurement going paperless
- Togo: measures to support companies facing hardship
Plus listings of trade compliance actions, newsletters and client alerts, webinars, TBT notifications, CBSA advance rulings, EN explanatory notes, Safeguards, AD/CVD actions (US, Canada, Mexico, EU, Australia, China, India, Argentina, Brazil).
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