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. 11 (some may also be given separate headlines):
The World Customs Organization integrated the International Air Transport Association's Cargo-XML messaging standard within the WCO's Cargo Targeting System, IATA said in an Oct. 10 news release. The integration allows for "electronic communication between airlines and customs authorities using the IATA Cargo-XML standards format" and will "facilitate more accurate risk assessments by customs authorities using the WCO CTS application to capture advance electronic cargo manifest information," IATA said.
The World Customs Organization's Harmonized System Committee is working to prepare for the next harmonized tariff schedule coming in 2022, the WCO said in an Oct. 9 news release. The HSC recently met in Brussels and provisionally adopted six sets of amendments to the nomenclature, it said. Also during the meeting "some decisions on the classification of goods were submitted to the HS Review Sub-Committee for consideration of possible amendments to the Nomenclature to facilitate the classification of various products, such as 3D printers for example, and motor vehicle windscreens," it said. "Productive discussions were held on how to classify products newly released on to the world market, in areas which included cutting-edge technology (for example, equipment for manufacturing LCD modules), the food industry (for example, blanched green shell mussels), and the tobacco industry, with a useful exchange on how to classify new tobacco products."
The government of Canada recently issued the following trade-related notices as of Oct. 10 (some may also be given separate headlines):
The World Trade Organization Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures on Oct. 10 discussed a proposal to endorse voluntary actions for committee members to bolster global standards on pesticide maximum residue levels (MRLs), according to a Geneva trade official. The U.S., Kenya and Uganda submitted the proposal, which calls for a Ministerial Decision for the WTO Ministerial Conference in Buenos Aires (MC11) in December that would endorse an SPS Committee consensus reached on several pesticide-related issues. Those issues include enhancing the ability of the Codex Alimentarius to set global MRL standards, improving the transparency and predictability in members’ setting of MRLs, achieving greater harmonization across national and regional MRLs, and enabling greater access to lower-risk pesticides and pesticides for minor-use crops, “particularly in developing countries,” the Geneva source said. The next SPS Committee meeting in November could recommend the proposal for adoption to the WTO Council for Trade in Goods, which could at its Nov. 9 meeting propose its inclusion in the MC11 agenda, the U.S. delegation said during the Oct. 10 meeting.
The World Customs Organization issued the following releases 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 World Customs Organization issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters:
In recent editions of the Official Journal of the European Union the following trade-related notices were posted: