The following are highlights of the trade-related Executive Communications sent to Congress from December 8, 2010 to December 16, 2010:
Russia export controls and sanctions
The use of export controls and sanctions on Russia has surged since the country's invasion of Crimea in 2014, and especially its invasion of Ukraine in in February 2022. Similar export controls and sanctions have been imposed by U.S. allies, including the EU, U.K. and Japan. The following is a listing of recent articles in Export Compliance Daily on export controls and sanctions imposed on Russia:
Immigration and Customs Enforcement has announced that special agents of its Homeland Security Investigations have charged Marc Knapp of Simi Valley, CA for engaging in a seven-month course of criminal conduct involving controlled technology exports to Hungary and attempted exports to Iran and Russia.
FSIS has provided updated information for the export of U.S. meat and poultry to the following countries:
The Bureau of Industry and Security has issued a final rule, effective December 17, 2010, which removes five entities from the Entity List under Russia and makes modifications to 18 Chinese entries and three Russian entries currently on the Entity List.
On December 9, 2010, the President’s Export Council held its second meeting to discuss a variety of issues related to the Administration’s National Export Initiative. During the meeting, President Obama recapped recent export progress and the PEC adopted five sets of recommendations for his consideration, including:
In World Trade Organization Director-General Lamy's second annual report on accessions issued on December 8, 2010, he stated that 30 countries are in the process of acceding to the WTO. Ten formal accession Working Party meetings were held in 2010; these were for Azerbaijan, the Bahamas, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Lao PDR, Serbia (two meetings), Seychelles, Tajikistan and Yemen (two meetings). Nine informal Working Party consultations/meetings were also held in 2010 for Kazakhstan, the Russian Federation (five meetings), Samoa and Yemen (two meetings).
In the December 8, 2010 edition of the Official Journal of the European Union, the following trade-related notices were posted:
The European Union issued the following releases on December 8, 2010:
National Nuclear Security Administration officials recently led the U.S. delegation to the 17th meeting of the Joint Coordinating Group (JCG). Organized by NNSA’s Material Protection, Control and Accounting (MPC&A) program, the JCG meets twice a year to review the progress of cooperative efforts on nuclear material security between the U.S. and Russia.
At a November 29, 2010 hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee’s Crime and Drugs Subcommittee, Department of Justice and private sector witnesses testified on the enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act1.