The World Customs Organization issued the following release on commercial trade and related matters:
In recent editions of the Official Journal of the European Union the following trade-related notices were posted:
The government of Canada recently issued the following trade-related notices as of March 5 (some may also be given separate headlines):
The government of Canada recently issued the following trade-related notices as of March 2 (some may also be given separate headlines):
The government of Canada recently issued the following trade-related notices as of Feb. 28 (some may also be given separate headlines):
Vietnam has asked the World Trade Organizations for consultations with the U.S. because of U.S. Department of Agriculture inspections of catfish and swai, a practice that came about after the passage of the 2014 Farm Bill (see 14020417). Vietnam said these inspections are purportedly for sanitary reasons, but said the U.S. inspections are not based on a risk assessment of swai imports. Non-tariff trade barriers of this kind are allowed under WTO rules only to the extent necessary to protect human health, and they have to be "based on scientific principles," the request said. Vietnam says it appears that the USDA inspections do not have scientific evidence backing their necessity. Vietnam is also in a consultations period on antidumping duties on certain frozen fish fillets.
The World Customs Organization issued the following release on commercial trade and related matters:
The government of Canada recently issued the following trade-related notices as of Feb. 26 (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:
Restricting trade will kill jobs across Canada, Mexico and the U.S., politicians agreed during the Washington International Trade Association's Feb. 23 panel on NAFTA. "That impulse to turn inward, to make trade less free, has to be resisted, in my opinion," Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne said. She, joined by Queretaro Governor Francisco Dominguez Servien and Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard, is in Washington to talk to U.S. administration officials and U.S. governors assembled for the National Governors Association Winter Meeting Feb. 23-26.