The World Customs Organization issued the following release on commercial trade and related matters:
In recent editions of the Official Journal of the European Union the following trade-related notices were posted:
The government of Canada recently issued the following trade-related notices as of Jan. 24 (some may also be given separate headlines):
The European Union recently issued the following trade-related release (notices of most significance will be given separate headlines):
The 11 remaining participants in the Trans-Pacific Partnership reached a new Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for the TPP during a meeting in Tokyo, Canada's Minister of International Trade Francois-Philippe Champagne said in a Jan. 23 news release. After the U.S. exited the pact (see 1701230041), Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore and Vietnam continued discussion. “Over the past year, we have also worked collaboratively with our partners to make the necessary changes so that the agreement builds real prosperity and creates opportunities," Champagne said.
The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species on Jan. 22 announced it will no longer recommend that members suspend trade in CITES-listed species with Guinea-Bissau. The country has enacted new laws to implement the convention since CITES suspended trade in March 2016, CITES said. The country will prohibit exports of Pterocarpus erinaceus for the years 2017, 2018 and 2019, besides a stockpile that will be allowed for export until April 22, CITES said in a separate announcement. CITES is recommending that its members leave in place a ban on trade with Liberia in CITES-listed species, also announced in March 2016, until further notice, it said.
The U.S. has until Aug. 22, 2018, to come into compliance with a recent World Trade Organization decision against certain procedures in Commerce Department antidumping duty cases against China, it said in a recent news release. A WTO arbitrator set the deadline for implementation of the WTO Appellate Body ruling, which found the U.S. policy of grouping all Chinese companies that don’t apply for a “separate rate” and demonstrate independence from Chinese government control into a single China-wide entity with a single rate violates WTO rules (see 1610190037 and 1705150005).
The government of Canada recently issued the following trade-related notices as of Jan. 22 (some may also be given separate headlines):
China has failed to implement a World Trade Organization dispute settlement decision against its antidumping and countervailing duties on U.S. broiler chickens, the WTO said. A WTO compliance panel found that China continues to violate WTO agreements on AD/CV duties, despite a 2013 WTO decision that the broiler ehcken duties were against WTO rules (see 13080602). The compliance panel’s ruling, which the U.S. had requested in 2016, opens up the possibility of the U.S. imposing retaliatory tariffs on Chinese goods if China does not bring itself into compliance or the U.S. and China can’t agree to some other form of compensation.
The World Trade Organization recently referred to arbitration a U.S. request to raise tariffs on Indian goods in retaliation for its failure to comply with a World Trade Organization ruling on the country’s domestic content requirements for solar cells, the WTO said. The U.S. in December had requested the WTO authorize its “suspension of tariff concessions and related obligations (including most-favored-nation obligations) … on a list of products of India to be drawn from the Harmonized Tariff Schedule.” India purportedly failed to implement the WTO’s 2016 ruling (see 1609190043). The U.S. request did not include a specific monetary amount of retaliation or a list of affected products.