In the December 23, 2010 edition of the Official Journal of the European Union, the following trade-related notices were posted:
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.
On December 20, 2010, the United Nations General Assembly adopted draft resolutions setting forth strategies to protect coral reefs and to mitigate the ill effects of chemical munitions dumped at sea. The Assembly also took action on 17 draft resolutions on sustainable development, including calling on Member States to break the impasse in the Doha Round of World Trade Organization negotiations by eliminating agricultural subsidies, enhancing market access to developed-world markets, etc.
The World Trade Organization posted the following notices for December 21, 2010 (may have to click twice on source documents for proper viewing):
On December 21, 2010, the International Chamber of Commerce reported that the United Arab Emirates (UAE) expects to start accepting and issuing ATA Carnets early next year, making the federation the 69th country to join the ATA system.
In the December 21, 2010 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 December 21, 2010:
On December 20, 2010, the European Chemicals Agency submitted to the European Commission a recommendation that eight chemical Substances of Very High Concern (SVHC1) be subject to “authorization” under the European Union’s REACH2 program.
Mexico's Diario Oficial of December 20, 2010 lists a notice from the Secretary of the Economy as follows:
At the December 20, 2010 fourth India-Russia Forum on Trade & Investment, officials from India and Russia discussed trade and cooperation in chemicals and fertilizers, industry, energy, etc. Among other things, both countries agreed on the need to facilitate the trade of goods, especially agriculture and animal products, and also called for necessary measures to be taken to enable export of meat products from India to Russia.