India placed new export restrictions on various chrome ore lumps, the Directorate General of Foreign Trade said in a June 22 notice. The directorate placed goods traded under five different Harmonized System codes that start with 2610 under the "Restricted" export policy. The restrictions cover chrome ore lumps containing 47% Cr203 and above, those with 40% or more but less than 47% Cr203 and those below 40% Cr203, as well as "chrome ore friable and concentrates fixes containing 47% Cr203 and above," and "other."

The Commerce Department’s International Trade Administration is accepting applications for an upcoming trade mission aimed at introducing U.S. exporters to East Asia's information and communication technology security and critical infrastructure protection markets. The Sept. 18-26 mission to Taiwan, South Korea and Japan will look to help exporters find “business partners and export their products and services to the region,” ITA said. Participants must certify that their products comply with U.S. export controls. The application deadline is June 23, with those received after that date “considered only if space and scheduling constraints permit.”

China lifted the ban on deboned beef, under 30 months old, from Belgium and Poland, according to unofficial translations of a pair of June 15 notices. The General Administration of Customs said it will create the inspection and quarantine requirements for the beef imports in a later announcement.

China “firmly” opposed the U.S. additions of Chinese entities to its Entity List this week, a Foreign Ministry spokesperson said, calling on the Biden administration to “immediately stop using military and human rights-related issues as pretexts to politicize, instrumentalize and weaponize trade and tech issues.” The U.S. should “stop abusing export control tools such as entity lists to keep Chinese companies down,” the spokesperson said during a regular press conference June 13. The export controls targeted companies in China and elsewhere for supporting China’s military or the government’s human rights abuses in Xinjiang (see 2306120030).

China’s Ministry of Commerce criticized recent U.S. sanctions targeting companies in China and Hong Kong for helping Iran procure missile parts and technology (see 2306060043), saying the allegations lack “factual basis and due process.” The U.S. should stop its “unreasonable suppression of Chinese companies and individuals,” a ministry spokesperson said June 12, according to an unofficial translation. “China will take necessary measures to resolutely safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of Chinese companies and individuals.”

The EU General Court issued a series of four opinions June 7 rejecting applications for delisting from sanctioned Belarusian individuals. The court said the European Council permissibly gave sufficient reasons to list the individuals and said the sanctions were not disproportionate. The individuals are Belarusian businessman Aleksandr Vasilevich Shakutin and university officials Aliaksandr Bakhanovich, Siarhei Rubnikovich and Siarhei Skryba.

China imposed quarantine requirements on edible peas and lentils from Kazakhstan and heat-treated beef from Pakistan, the General Administration of Customs said in two notices, according to an unofficial translation.

Brazil recently added 628 items and removed 36 items from its list of foreign capital goods and information technology and telecommunications goods subject to duty-free treatment under its Ex‑Tarifario regime, the Hong Kong Trade Development Council reported June 9. The 564 added capital goods are classified in Harmonized System chapters 84, 85, 86, 87, 89 and 90. The 64 added IT and telecom goods are classified in chapters 84, 85 and 90. Duty-free treatment lasts through Dec. 31, 2025.

China imposed inspection and quarantine requirements for certain wild aquatic products from Kazakhstan on June 2, the General Administration of Customs announced, according to an unofficial translation. The requirements apply to aquatic resources and their canned products that live freely in natural waters, excluding live aquatic animals and reproductive materials of aquatic animals and plants, along with appendices of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora.

The Hong Kong Trade and Industry Department June 7 issued the latest version of signatures of agency officers authorized to sign and issue Delivery Verification Certificates, and import and export licenses covering strategic commodities.