On March 14 the Foreign Agricultural Service issued the following GAIN reports:
Russia export controls and sanctions
The use of export controls and sanctions on Russia has surged since the country's invasion of Crimea in 2014, and especially its invasion of Ukraine in in February 2022. Similar export controls and sanctions have been imposed by U.S. allies, including the EU, U.K. and Japan. The following is a listing of recent articles in Export Compliance Daily on export controls and sanctions imposed on Russia:
The European Union issued the following trade-related releases March 13-14 (notices of most significance will be given separate headlines)
On March 7 the Foreign Agricultural Service issued the following GAIN reports:
On March 6 the Foreign Agricultural Service issued the following GAIN reports:
A proposal to add more restrictions on polar bear trade was rejected by delegates to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species March 7, at the group’s conference, which continues through March 14 in Bangkok. The proposal -- spearheaded by the U.S. and Russia -- would have moved polar bears to Appendix I, a CITES listing of species threatened with extinction and subject to protection, including commercial trade restrictions. The U.S. cited polar bear’s marked population decline and habitat loss in their proposal (here), but faced strong opposition from Canada, Greenland and Norway, “all of which are range states for polar bears,” the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said in a release. “As polar bear hide prices have skyrocketed, more bears are being offered at auction, and hunting levels have increased,” said Dan Ashe, head of CITES U.S. delegation, in the release. “A CITES Appendix-I listing would have ensured that commercial trade would not compound the threats of habitat loss that are facing this species.”
A Russian company has been added to the Bureau of Industry and Security’s Entity List according to a Federal Register notice to be published March 8. The notice said T--Platforms has been listed as the consignee on multiple automated export systems records filed for the export of dual-use items controlled for national security reasons but shipped without the required licenses. The company may also be associated with military procurement activities, including computer system development for military end-users and the production of computers for nuclear research, the notice said. T --Platforms’s headquarters in Russia and its subsidiaries in Germany and Taiwan have all been added to the Entity List. T-Platforms information on the list is as follows:
Following the withdrawal of most requests for Competitive Need Limitation waivers in the 2012 Generalized System of Preferences review, the International Trade Commission said it’s ending its investigations on the economic impact of the withdrawn CNL requests. The U.S. Trade Representative notified the ITC of the withdrawal of 11 out of 12 CNL requests originally included in the 2012 GSP review Feb. 21. All other aspects of the ITC’s GSP investigation remain unchanged, including the April 4 deadline for submission of the final report to USTR.
On Feb. 28 the Foreign Agricultural Service issued the following GAIN reports:
In the Feb. 28-March 1 editions of the Official Journal of the European Union, the following trade-related notices were posted:
Correction: The International Intellectual Property Alliance (IIPA) asked the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) to elevate Costa Rica to the Priority Watch List in the Special 301 process; IIPA also asked the USTR to keep Argentina, Chile, China, India, Indonesia, and Russia on the Priority Watch List (see ITT's Online Archives 13022126).