Mexico's Diario Oficial of September 13, 2010 lists notices from the Secretary of the Economy as follows:
The Canadian International Trade Tribunal has issued an order to continue the antidumping duty order on certain whole potatoes originating in or exported from the U.S. for use or consumption in the province of British Columbia.The Tribunal found that the expiry of the order would likely result in injury to the growers of all or almost all of the potato production in British Columbia in the near to medium term.
In the September 11, 2010 edition of the Official Journal of the European Union, the following trade-related notices were posted:
The World Trade Organization has announced topics to be discussed at the annual WTO Public Forum on September 15--17, 2010, which include: the WTO and the players that influence the multilateral trading system; the economic, political and technological factors shaping world trade and the role of the rules-based multilateral trading system in contributing to the global economic recovery; coherence between the WTO and other areas of global governance; and "Looking to the future: What post-crisis agenda for the WTO in a shifting-power scenario?" (May have to click on source document twice for proper viewing.)
The European Commission has posted a reminder that November 30, 2010 is the deadline for registration of certain chemical substances under the EU REACH regulation, and January 1, 2011 is the deadline to notify the European Chemicals Agency of the classification and labeling of the substances placed on the market under the Classification, Labeling and Packaging (CLP) regulation.
The U.S. Commercial Service has made available its "Doing Business in Mexico: 2010 Country Commercial Guide for U.S. Companies". This A-Z guide is divided into the following chapters:
In the September 10, 2010 edition of the Official Journal of the European Union, the following trade-related notices were posted:
The European Commission is announcing new regulations, effective January 1, 2011, that will base shipping company inspection frequency on the number of deficiencies detected in inspections of their ships, involve EU-wide harmonization of port state control inspection standards, and coordinated control of all EU port state safety inspections. The EC also plans to "name and shame" shipping companies with poor safety records.
During a recent international seminar on consumer product safety and market surveillance, the Organization of American States and the Pan-American Health Organization announced a new platform called the “Safe Consumption and Health Network,” which will be an inter-agency web portal that provides a regional mechanism for exchanging information on recalls, mandatory and voluntary standards, best practices on market surveillance, etc.
European Union Trade Commissioner De Gucht will travel to Brazil and Argentina on September 13-16, 2010 to explore advancement of the ongoing EU-Mercosur trade negotiations. EU-Mercosur free trade negotiations were relaunched in May 2010 after being suspended in 2004 without agreement.