On June 6 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 following entities have been added to OFAC's SDN list:
On June 5 the Foreign Agricultural Service issued the following GAIN reports:
The World Customs Organization (WCO) posted the following notices from June 6, 2012:
The European Union issued the following trade-related releases on June 2-5, 2012 (notices of most significance will be given separate headlines):
Congressional focus will be on giving Russia permanent normal trade relations (PNTR) status and repealing Jackson--Vanik, the 1974 law meant to restrict trade with Communist countries, said Ayesha Khanna, policy advisor for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) Khanna spoke at the American Association of Exporters and Importers conference June 4. While the Jacskon-Vanik issue won't be without controversy, it is something Khanna expects Congressional attention on "at some point in the near term," she said.
On June 4, 2012, the Foreign Agricultural Service issued the following GAIN reports:
APEC hopes to have a list of environmental goods that directly and positively contribute to the region’s green growth and sustainable development objectives "by September,” said Russia’s First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov, at the APEC Trade Ministers meeting June 4 in Kazan, Russia. ”It could be a positive, tangible signal that APEC could achieve results to help the international trade system,” he said. “Having such a list is a specific positive contribution that we could make to multilateral trade negotiations in connection to the new quality of growth,” agreed Andrey Belousov, Minister of Economic Development of the Russian Federation.
An APEC Senior Officials meeting endorsed a set of capacity building projects to help support economic progress in the Asia-Pacific region, on the eve of a Ministers of Trade meeting in Kazan, Russia, June 4. The goal of the meeting was a set of concrete initiatives on such things as continued expansion of liberalized trade and investment in the region.
The government of Canada issued the following trade-related notices for June 4 (note that some may also be given separate headlines)