The World Customs Organization issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters:
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 Oct. 18 (some may also be given separate headlines):
Mexico's Diario Oficial of Oct. 17 lists trade-related notices from the Secretary of Economy as follows:
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 Oct. 16 (some may also be given separate headlines):
The World Trade Organization recently posted the following notices:
The United Kingdom and the European Commission told World Trade Organization members in an Oct. 11 letter that post-Brexit tariff-rate quotas should be divided between the U.K. and the EU based on trade flows under each current EU TRQ. “In doing so, we propose to follow a common approach, [for, among other things,] data and methodology, and to engage actively with WTO Members on these,” says the letter by EU Permanent Representative to the WTO Marc Vanheukelen and Julian Braithwaite, UK Permanent Representative to the International Organizations in Geneva. The U.K. will have separate schedules than the EU for goods and services commitments for the WTO, to take effect immediately upon leaving the EU, scheduled to be completed in March 2019, the letter says. The UK intends to “replicate as far as possible” its obligations under current EU commitments to the WTO, including remaining subject to the rights and obligations it currently has under the WTO Government Procurement Agreement (GPA) as an EU member state, the letter says. The EU will remain party to the GPA, the letter says. “The UK and the EU are committed to engaging with the WTO Membership in a spirit of cooperation, inclusiveness and openness on these matters over the course of the coming weeks and months.”
The government of Canada recently issued the following trade-related notices as of Oct. 13 (some may also be given separate headlines):
The World Customs Organization (WCO) Working Group on E-Commerce agreed on actions to streamline e-commerce transactions globally, during an Oct. 10-13 meeting at WCO headquarters in Brussels, the WCO announced. The working group in the coming months plans to release a resolution on cross-border e-commerce advocating for an international standards framework for e-commerce principles, including advance electronic data, trade facilitation and simplification, safety and security, revenue collection, capacity building and legislation, the WCO said.