The Government of Canada issued the following notices on January 4, 2011:
The Chinese government has announced that on January 1, 2011, mainland China and Taiwan began implementing the "early harvest program" of the Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement, under which mainland China will reduce tariffs on 539 Taiwanese goods and Taiwan will drop the duties on 267 mainland goods. Duties for these products will be reduced to zero within two years. China's Customs will work to provide ease of movement to products listed in the ECFA, including agricultural and mechanical products, chemicals, electronics, auto parts, textiles, medicine, etc.
In the January 5, 2011 edition of the Official Journal of the European Union, the following trade-related notices were posted:
The Government of Canada issued the following additional notices from December 17-31, 2010 that were not previously included in International Trade Today:
The Government of Canada issued the following notices on December 19, 2011:
In the January 4, 2011 edition of the Official Journal of the European Union, the following trade-related notices were posted:
The European Union issued the following trade-related releases on January 4, 2011:
Brazil's Foreign Trade Chamber (Camex) announced on December 28, 2010 that it was raising import duties on 14 types of toys (dolls, electric trains, tricycles, puzzles, etc) from 20 to 35%. The increase will remain in effect until December 31, 2011. It was requested by the Brazilian Association of Toy Manufacturers to combat an increase in toy imports and will largely affect toys manufactured in China as they account for nearly 80% of Brazilian toy imports.
In the December 31, 2010 edition of the Official Journal of the European Union, the following trade-related notices were posted:
China's foreign exchange regulator recently announced that it would spread a program from previously trial regions to the entire nation, allowing exporters, beginning January 1, 2011, to keep their revenues overseas. The program started as a trial plan on October 1, and was only applied to Beijing Municipality, Guangdong, Shandong and Jiangsu provinces, the State Administration of Foreign Exchange (SAFE) said in a statement on its website. Under the program, qualified Chinese exporters would be allowed to hold their foreign currency earnings in overseas accounts, SAFE said. Each export company can hold up to five overseas accounts and was free to decide on the length of time that it wanted to keep its income offshore or when to return the funds to China.