The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Foreign Agricultural Service has issued a GAIN1 Report on the European Union’s feed and pet food labeling requirements established by EU Regulation 767/2009, which became applicable September 1, 2010.
The World Trade Organization has issued the report of the Dispute Settlement Panel in the dispute "U.S.-Certain Measures Affecting Imports of Poultry from China" (DS392). The panel finds, among other things, that Section 727 of the fiscal year 2009 Omnibus Appropriations Act, which prohibits the use of funds appropriated under that Act from being used to establish or implement a rule allowing poultry products to be imported into the U.S. from China, is inconsistent with Articles I:1 and XI:1 of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade 1994 (GATT).
GOV.cn reported that the Chinese government issued a circular on September 27, 2010 to tighten restrictions on online transactions of drug precursor chemicals, in a bid to fight Internet-enabled drug trafficking.
The Secretary General of the World Customs Organization and the Director of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding enhancing cooperation between the two organizations on issues of mutual interest and in particular those relating to promoting Customs facilitation measures in the case of emergency and the handling of humanitarian relief consignments.
In the September 28, 2010 edition of the Official Journal of the European Union, the following trade-related notices were posted:
Foreign Ministers from countries in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations and their counterparts from the Latin American Rio Group (e.g. Brazil, Chile, etc.) met on September 24, 2010 at the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York. Both groups reaffirmed their commitments to forge closer relations, particularly in the fields of trade, tourism and collaboration in the global issues of common interests.
Laos announced on September 24, 2010 that it has completed bilateral goods and services agreements with Japan and China and is close to a deal with the European Union as part of its 12-year-old negotiations to join the World Trade Organization.
China' s Ministry of Commerce reports that China will levy anti-dumping duties of between 50.3 percent to 105.4 percent on imports of U.S. chicken products for a five year period. The move comes after China imposed anti-subsidy (CV) duties ranging from 4 percent to 30.3 percent on U.S. chicken products in late August for five years.
In the September 25, 2010 edition of the Official Journal of the European Union, the following trade-related notices were posted:
Mexico's Diario Oficial of September 27, 2010 lists a notice from the Secretary of the Economy as follows: