Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada has posted a list of its 2009 "Import for Re-Export Program" participants.
Xinhua News reports that a senior official of China's top economic planning body said that conditions for China to launch a carbon emission rights trading system remain premature. However, he said the measures taken by the government to combat climate change would become increasingly strict and emission reduction goals would become increasingly quantified.
The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) has posted information from the September 23, 2010 meeting of CITES and Summit of the Americas (OAS) members. Discussion topics included targeted legislative support to streamline wildlife trade that is sustainable and traceable.
GOV.cn reported that the Chinese government issued a circular on September 27, 2010 to tighten restrictions on online transactions of drug precursor chemicals, in a bid to fight Internet-enabled drug trafficking.
In the September 29, 2010 edition of the Official Journal of the European Union, the following trade-related notices were posted:
In the September 28, 2010 edition of the Official Journal of the European Union, the following trade-related notices were posted:
Foreign Ministers from countries in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations and their counterparts from the Latin American Rio Group (e.g. Brazil, Chile, etc.) met on September 24, 2010 at the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York. Both groups reaffirmed their commitments to forge closer relations, particularly in the fields of trade, tourism and collaboration in the global issues of common interests.
Laos announced on September 24, 2010 that it has completed bilateral goods and services agreements with Japan and China and is close to a deal with the European Union as part of its 12-year-old negotiations to join the World Trade Organization.
China' s Ministry of Commerce reports that China will levy anti-dumping duties of between 50.3 percent to 105.4 percent on imports of U.S. chicken products for a five year period. The move comes after China imposed anti-subsidy (CV) duties ranging from 4 percent to 30.3 percent on U.S. chicken products in late August for five years.
The Canadian International Trade Tribunal (CITT) on September 13, 2010 determined to continue its antidumping (AD) duty order (Expiry Review No. RR-2009-002) on certain whole potatoes from the U.S. for use or consumption in the province of British Columbia.