In the August 13, 2010 edition of the Official Journal of the European Union, the following trade-related notices were posted:

In the August 12, 2010 edition of the Official Journal of the European Union, the following trade-related notices were posted:

The European Commission has initiated an investigation of possible circumvention of certain countervailing and antidumping duty measures imposed on imports of biodiesel originating in the U.S. The EC states that the request was lodged on June 30, 2010 by the European Biodiesel Board and contains sufficient preliminary evidence that the CV measures on imports of biodiesel from the U.S. are being circumvented by means of the transhipment of biodiesel via Canada and Singapore and by exports of biodiesel in a blend containing by weight 20% or less of biodiesel.

Mexico's Diario Oficial of August 12, 2010 lists notices from the Secretary of the Economy on the following:

India's Ministry of Commerce and Industry has issued a press release on U.S. and European Union subsidization of agriculture, which it describes as a substantial trade distortion. The Ministry quotes Organization for Economic Development and Cooperation statistics which put the level of support of agricultural producers at 9% in the U.S. in 2007-09 (expressed as a percentage of producer revenues) and 23% in the EU. The Ministry states that if the key, draft WTO proposals on agriculture are ever agreed to, the EU and U.S. would be required to reduce their levels of support to farmers by 55%-80%.

The European Commission has posted a July 2010 Sanitary and Phytosanitary (SPS) Newsletter which summarizes the activities of the EC's SPS team, including its World Trade Organization SPS activities, its World Organization for Animal Health activities, and certain bilateral and regional activities.

The World Trade Organization has posted a notification by Panama requesting extension of the transition period for the elimination of export subsidies classified as prohibited under Article 3.1 of the WTO Agreement on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures (SCM). (May have to click on source document twice for proper viewing.)

On August 6, 2010, Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) initiated a “Voluntary Security Export Controls Program” aimed at supporting voluntary export controls by small and medium enterprises. The project consists of 1) consultations for individual cases to create voluntary internal compliance programs by advisors with extensive experience and the 2) invitation for participation in a seminar designed to raise awareness of controls.

In the August 11, 2010 edition of the Official Journal of the European Union, the following trade-related notices were posted:

The U.S. Council for International Business has announced that it will be holding seminars on the new incoterms (Incoterms® 2010) that are to take effect on January 1, 2011.