The European Union issued a notice in the March 11 Official Journal announcing adjustments to certain tariff-rate quotas for agricultural products that will take effect once the United Kingdom leaves the EU or a negotiated transition period ends. The new regulation also sets provisions on treatment of TRQ import licenses issued by U.K. customs authorities after Brexit, as well as how TRQs that have already opened and been partially used will be apportioned on the day the U.K. leaves.

Recent editions of Mexico's Diario Oficial list trade-related notices as follows:

The new Canadian excise duty rates for spirits, wine, tobacco products and cannabis products take effect April 1, the Canada Revenue Agency recently said in a notice. The rates are adjusted annually.

The Transition Engine Annual Report (TEAR) is due on March 31 for transition engines imported or manufactured during the 2018 calendar year, Environment and Climate Change Canada said in an emailed notice. "The purpose of this notice is to raise awareness amongst customs brokers and their clients (importers of off-road diesel engines)" of the deadline, the agency said. "If you import transition engines or machines containing a transition engine into Canada, or are a Canadian manufacturer of transition engines or machines containing a transition engine, you must submit" a TEAR, the agency said in an attached presentation.

Canada is proposing new regulations for "setting emission standards for off-road engines such as large spark-ignition (LSI) and stationary compression-ignition (SCI) engines," the Department of the Environment said in a March 9 notice. While there are existing regulations aligning emission standards with the U.S. for mobile compression-ignition (MCI) engines, there are no such regulations for LSI and SCI engines, it said. "The proposed Regulations would repeal and replace the current Off-Road Compression-Ignition Engine Emission Regulations (which apply to MCI engines) and introduce new emission standards and requirements in alignment with the U.S. EPA’s standards for LSI and SCI engines," the department said (see 1903080001).

Delays for exporters seeking approval of labeling by the Food Safety and Inspection Service are now up to 24 to 25 business days, FSIS said in its March 8 constituent update newsletter. To minimize the delays, exporters should “clearly indicate the specific reasons(s) for temporary approval,” and “combine multiple labels into one temporary approval application if appropriate,” FSIS said. Label approval is only required for a few types of labels, but that includes products for export with labeling deviations from domestic products. Delays for labeling approvals have increased slightly since late February.

The Bureau of Industry Security seeks comments by May 13 on the burden on importers from certain information collections for products subject to Export Administration Regulation export controls, it said. The agency is set to request approval from the Office of Management and Budget for these information collection requirements, which include classification, advisory and license applications and commodity classification requests.

The Bureau of Industry and Security seeks comments on the burden of its collection of information on defense offset agreements, it said in a notice. By law, U.S. companies must tell Commerce about offset agreements worth more than $5,000,000 associated with sales of weapons defense equipment to foreign countries or firms. Offsets, which are “required by most major trading partners when purchasing U.S. military equipment,” are industrial or commercial compensation practices in sales of defense articles or services under the Arms Export Control Act and the International Traffic in Arms regulations. Comments on the burden and ways to improve the information collection are due May 13.

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A State Department policy change that lifts statutory debarments on companies that have export privileges still banned is a practical step toward rewarding past violators who aren't yet ready for complete reinstatement, lawyers say. The policy change, announced in a March 4 notice, came as State lifted a debarment against Colorado-based Rocky Mountain Instrument Company (RMI) -- stemming from 2010 violations of the Arms Export Control Act -- without reinstating RMI’s export privileges.