The World Trade Organization recently posted the following notices:
The government of Canada recently issued the following trade-related notices as of July 14 (some may also be given separate headlines):
The government of Canada recently issued the following trade-related notices as of July 12 (some may also be given separate headlines):
In recent editions of the Official Journal of the European Union the following trade-related notices were posted (here):
The World Customs Organization issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters:
The government of Canada recently issued the following trade-related notices as of July 10 (some may also be given separate headlines):
In recent editions of the Official Journal of the European Union the following trade-related notices were posted (here):
The World Trade Organization recently posted the following notices:
G-20 leaders in this year’s joint summit communique (here) added language highlighting the “importance of reciprocal” trade relations and recognizing “the role” of “legitimate trade defence instruments,” but deleted certain language voicing nations’ resistance to protectionism. Published on July 8, as the 2017 G-20 leaders summit was concluding in Hamburg, Germany, the communique’s only reference to protectionism stated countries will “continue to fight protectionism,” whereas the 2015 (here) and 2016 (here) joint communiques opposed “all forms” of protectionism. This year’s omission is similar to traditional language absent from March’s G-20 finance ministers’ meeting statement (see 1703200010). The omission came at the apparent urging of Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin.
The European Union and Canada have set an effective date of Sept. 21 for their Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement, said European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in a joint statement (here). On that date, the free trade agreement will provisionally apply, “thus allowing for all the necessary implementing measures to be taken before that date,” the statement said. “The agreement will now be provisionally applied and will enter definitively into force once the Parliaments in all Member States of the EU ratify the text according to their respective domestic constitutional requirements,” it said.