The government of Canada recently issued the following trade-related notices as of Oct. 9 (some may also be given separate headlines):
Former Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull offered a full-throated defense of free trade in a speech to a Washington think tank. "There is no question that free trade and open markets means more jobs," Turnbull said Oct. 4 at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. He said his consistent rejection of protectionism seemed out of step with the global trend after the Brexit vote and the election of Donald Trump. But he spoke with pride of how Australia, New Zealand and Japan led the charge to save the Trans-Pacific Partnership after the U.S. withdrawal. Even without the U.S., the remaining 11 countries account for 15 percent of global trade volumes, he said.
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. 3 (some may also be given separate headlines):
The World Customs Organization will be launching a new project to harmonize "the classification of goods based on WCO standards to enhance African trade," WCO said in a news release. The announcement came during a Sept. 17- 28 Harmonized System Committee meeting in Brussels. The project will help in establishing the African Continental Free Trade Area "and assist beneficiary African countries to not only implement and apply the HS 2022 edition, but build the capacity to successfully apply future editions, autonomously and on time, in line with the requirements of HS Convention and the needs of international and regional agreements," WCO said.
In recent editions of the Official Journal of the European Union the following trade-related notices were posted:
In recent editions of the Official Journal of the European Union the following trade-related notices were posted:
The government of Canada recently issued the following trade-related notices as of Sept. 28 (some may also be given separate headlines):
Customs officials in the European Union seized more than 31 million counterfeit products during 2017 with a street value of more than 580 million Euros, the EU said in a Sept. 28 press release. The volume of interdicted goods is down since 2016, but the government noted that "potentially dangerous goods" such as medicines, toys and electrical goods used day-to-day by consumers are now 43 percent of the total, a much higher proportion than in the past.
The World Customs Organization issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters: