Welcome to the May 2021 edition of Baker McKenzie’s International Trade Compliance Update.
Here are the highlights:
- WTO: Ministerial conference set, Covid notifications, TBT notifications; Trade Policy Reviews: Qatar, Tonga, Vietnam; DSB updates
- WCO: News, Covid measures
- CITES: Notifications
- FAS GAIN Reports
- Canada: Canada-UK trade continuity agreement; updated national security guidelines; regulations, orders, AD/CVD cases; restrictive measures
- Mexico: Acuerdos, decrees, AD/CVD cases
- USA: Presidential documents – lifting ICC sanctions; aluminum monitoring system delay; USTR notices; USITC investigations, HTS revisions, USMCA implementation; CIT declares PP 9980 contrary to law; section 301 exclusion amendments; CBP guidance on large residential washing machines TRQ; CBP modifies collection of spirits, wines and beers taxes; CBP publishes quarterly interest rates; US continues restrictions on land/vessel travel to/from Canada and Mexico; import restrictions on Costa Rican artifacts; “Lever rule” applications granted; EAPA actions; CBP rulings; CSMS messages; FTZ orders and notices; BIS updates encryption reporting; new sanctions on Russia; civil penalties increase; BIS adds Chinese tech companies to Entity List; issuer problems with designation of Russian FSS; UAE removed from list of boycott countries; new end-use control for Burma; comments solicited for information and communications technology supply chain transactions; OFAC, BIS and State blocking orders, designations and sanctions; Federal Register import/export/trade notices; AD/CVD cases; 337 cases.
- Argentina: Resolutions and AD/CVD cases
- Brazil: SECEX circulars and portarias
- Chile: Resolutions and decrees
- Colombia: MinCIT and DIAN decrees and circulars
- Peru: SUNAT, MinCETUR and INDECOPI resolutions, Law on labelling and verification of technical requirements for industrial products
- Australia: Notices, gazettes, legislation, AD/CVD cases
- China: Mofcom and GAC notices and announcements, AD/CVD cases
- India: CBIC and DGFT notifications, notices, circulars, AD/CVD cases
- New Zealand: Clearance fees, gazettes
- Singapore: RCEP ratification, customs circular
- Thailand: Focus on post-clearance audits and post-review activities
- Vietnam: New duty treatment regime applied to exported/imported goods
- EU: Adjust additional duties on certain US products; sanctions lifted on Iraqi entities; new guidance on distance sales; EU classification regulations; Official Journal regulations and decisions; restrictive measures; AD/CVD cases
- Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, Switzerland: trade measures, restrictive measures
- UK: Legislation (inc. statutory instruments), global anti-corruption sanctions; UK-Serbia trade agreement; new guidance on technology exports, Myanmar (Burma) sanctions, restrictive measures, trade measures; HMRC documents
- Turkey: Customs and import communiques; FTA joint decisions
- Ukraine: New Russian sanctions; legislation
- Eurasian Economic Union: Council and Board decisions
- North Africa: Manufacturing and marketing of pharma. products in 7 Francophile countries
- South Africa: Tariff and rules amendments
Plus links to videos of past webinars and registration information for current Webinar series.
