In the March 26 edition of the Official Journal of the European Union the following trade-related notices were posted:

Intra-European Union licenses required for very sensitive dual-use items that authorize the export of goods from an EU member state to the United Kingdom will still be valid when and if the U.K. leaves the EU with no transition deal in place, he EU said in a fact sheet issued March 21. These intra-EU transfer licenses, if issued before the U.K.’s withdrawal date, "should be considered as valid licences for exports to the United Kingdom as of the withdrawal date, and until the validity of the licence expires,” the EU said. The fact sheet reiterates that, for dual-use goods, exports from the EU to the U.K. will become subject to the EU’s export control regime after a no-deal Brexit, and any licenses issued by the U.K. for exports from the EU to a third-country will no longer be valid.

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

Mexico is renewing temporary tariff increases on steel products under 186 tariff subheadings, according to a notice in the March 25 Diario Oficial. The across-the-board 15 percent tariff had originally been imposed on the same 186 tariff subheadings in June 2018, before apparently expiring on Jan. 31, 2019. The renewed tariff increases take effect March 26, and will remain in place for six months, the notice said.

Brunei Darussalam will on April 1 join the Association of Southeast Asian Nations’ system for exchanging electronic certificates of origin through the ASEAN Single Window (ASW), Singapore Customs said in a March 25 circular. "Brunei Darussalam will join Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand and Viet Nam to commence live operation of the ASW for the electronic exchange of Form D under the [ASEAN Trade in Goods Agreement],” the circular said. Use of the system by the original countries began Jan. 1, 2018, according to an earlier Singapore Customs circular.

The Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control issued several counter-terrorism, non-proliferation and Iran-related designations, OFAC said in a March 26 notice. The designations include nine people and 14 entities linked to Iran, the United Arab Emirates and Turkey, according to the notice. OFAC also updated two Iran-related listings on the Specially Designated Nationals List.

The Department of Justice updated its policy manual provisions on Foreign Corrupt Practices Act enforcement to reflect changes in the requirements for retention of business records, according to the department. The new guidance, which took effect March 8, lifts a ban on the use of third-party messaging apps, including WeChat, WhatsApp and Snapchat, according to a report from Skadden Arps. The changes were made in light of “certain fast-growing economies, such as China and India, where WeChat and similar messaging apps are used extensively for legitimate business communications,” the report said.

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The Canada Border Services Agency plans to again push back the sunset date for legacy release options as part of the Single Window Initiative and Integrated Import Declaration transition, a CBSA spokesman said by email on March 26. Other Government Departments (OGD) service options pre-arrival review system (PARS), or SO 463, and release on minimum documentation (RMD), or SO 471, were set for decommissioning on April 1, 2019, CBSA announced last year. CBSA recently told members of the trade that the sunset date for OGD PARS (SO 463) and OGD RMD (SO 471) will now be in October.

It is unclear if Treasury's most recent North Korean sanctions will be enforced after reports surfaced on March 26 detailing opposing positions among the president, the White House administration and the Treasury Department.