United Kingdom and EU negotiators reached a deal to move forward with further Brexit discussions on trade issues, the European Commission said in a news release. The agreement, described in a joint report, involved the rights of EU citizens in the UK and vice versa and financial issues, it said. Based on the agreement, the European Commission recommended that the European Council should "conclude sufficient progress has been made, allowing the negotiations to proceed to their second phase," the EC said.
The European Union recently issued the following trade-related release (notices of most significance will be given separate headlines):
In recent editions of the Official Journal of the European Union the following trade-related notices were posted:
The World Trade Organization on Dec. 6 circulated a dispute settlement panel report that rejected Indonesian claims that U.S. antidumping and countervailing duties on coated paper from Indonesia violate the U.S.’s WTO obligations, according to a summary of the findings. The dispute panel rejected Indonesian claims alleging unfair duty calculation, improper use of adverse facts available, lack of specificity in identifying subsidy programs, a weak basis for the International Trade Commission’s affirmative injury determination, that the ITC didn’t exercise “special care” in its injury determination, and WTO inconsistency with a U.S. law that an evenly split ITC vote should be deemed an affirmative injury determination. In December 2016, the ITC voted to extend for another five years AD duties of 20.13 percent and CV duties of 17.93 percent assessed in 2010 of coated paper from Indonesia (see 1612290005).
The World Customs Organization issued the following release on commercial trade and related matters:
The government of Canada recently issued the following trade-related notices as of Dec. 6 (some may also be given separate headlines):
The World Customs Organization issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters:
The European Union recently issued the following trade-related release (notices of most significance will be given separate headlines):
The World Customs Organization issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters:
Mexico's Diario Oficial of Dec. 4 lists trade-related notices from the Secretary of Economy as follows: