Traders may be encountering electronic export licensing issues due to “temporary” problems affecting data flows between the country’s Custom Declaration Service and the Department for Business and Trade’s electronic licensing systems, including SPIRE and LITE, the U.K. said in an Aug. 23 guidance notice.
World Trade Organization Deputy Director-General Angela Ellard said that priorities for the 13th Ministerial Conference, which takes place Feb. 26-29 in Abu Dhabi, are negotiating the second wave of the fisheries subsidies agreement, extending the e-commerce moratorium and continuing conversations on WTO reform.