May 2021 International Trade Compliance Update.

21 May 2021
 

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.
 

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For further information, please contact: 

 

Stuart P. Seidel, Partner, Baker & McKenzie

Stuart.seidel@bakermckenzie.com