In the December 23, 2010 edition of the Official Journal of the European Union, the following trade-related notices were posted:
On December 24, 2010, Xinhua reported Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi's announcement that BRIC has accepted South Africa as a full member of the group, which currently includes Brazil, Russia, India and China. Yang said that China, as the current rotating chair of BRIC, believes South Africa's accession will promote the development of BRIC and enhance the cooperation of emerging market economies. (BRIC is a group of emerging market economies which are expected to grow faster than the G7 economies.)
During the December 17, 2010 Transatlantic Economic Council, the European Union and the U.S. announced the launch of a new website, the TransAtlantic IPR Portal, to help EU and U.S. companies break into foreign markets and avoid intellectual property rights violations.
On December 22, 2010, the UN Security Council Al-Qaida and Taliban Sanctions Committee approved the deletion of three entries from its Consolidated List. The assets freeze, travel ban, and arms embargo set out in Security Council resolution 1904 (2009) no longer apply to these three individuals. The Committee also approved amendments to 17 entries on its Consolidated List.
In the December 22, 2010 edition of the Official Journal of the European Union, the following trade-related notices were posted:
The World Trade Organization posted the following notices for December 22, 2010 (may have to click twice on source documents for proper viewing):
In the December 23, 2010 edition of the Official Journal of the European Union, the following trade-related notices were posted:
A Ministry of Commerce official in China stated on December 22, 2010 that China will add more items to its preferential technologies and products import catalog to boost mechanical and electrical products imports, including advanced technologies, equipment and components, and imports for production. Emerging industries and traditional equipment manufacturing will also be included in the tariff reduction catalog.
The European Union issued the following trade-related releases on December 22, 2010:
On December 21, 2010, nineteen conservation and animal welfare groups called on the Secretaries of Commerce and Interior to invoke U.S. conservation legislation, the Pelly Amendment, to impose trade sanctions against Iceland for its escalating defiance of international conservation agreements on commercial whaling. The groups identified specific Icelandic companies as potential targets for trade sanctions, which include major seafood industry players tied to Iceland’s whaling industry.