The Food Safety and Inspection Service has recently revised export requirements and plant lists for the following countries:
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 Food Safety and Inspection Service has recently revised export requirements and plant lists for the following countries:
The International Trade Administration and International Trade Commission are considering revoking the antidumping duty orders on fresh garlic (A-570-831) and furfuryl alcohol (A-570-835) from China, and ferrovanadium and nitrided vanadium from Russia (A-821-807) in their automatic five year sunset reviews of these orders, which were initiated on September 1, 2011. Both agencies have deadlines for participation, with some as short as 10 days after the date of initiation. These orders will be revoked unless the ITA finds that revocation would lead to a continuation or recurrence of dumping and the ITC finds that revocation would result in material injury to a U.S. industry within a reasonably foreseeable time. ITA notice available here. ITC garlic notice here, FA notice here, and F&NV notice here.
The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora has issued the following notifications to the parties on September 1, 2011:
The International Trade Commission is publishing notices in the September 1, 2011 Federal Register on the following AD/CV injury, Section 337 patent, and other trade proceedings (any notices that warrant a more detailed summary will appear in another ITT article):
On August 18-22, 2011, the Foreign Agriculture Service issued the following GAIN reports:
On August 13, 2011, U.S. Trade Representative Kirk spoke to the Congressional Black Caucus Institute's Annual Policy Conference, where he stated that among the top priorities on the President's jobs agenda is passing the pending trade agreements with South Korea, Colombia and Panama, as well as to renew Trade Adjustment Assistance. He also stated that the U.S. is moving forward with efforts to open markets and enforce U.S. trade rights around the world, and is making god progress at the regional level through the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum. He stated the U.S. strongly supports Russia’s bid to join the World Trade Organization and is also working with other WTO members to take a realistic look at next steps in the Doha Round.
On August 10, 2011, the 43rd ASEAN Economic Ministers Meeting and Related Meetings opened in Indonesia. During the Meetings, the Ministers will have consultations with the relevant Ministries from eight of ASEAN’s ten Dialogue Partners -- Australia and New Zealand, China, India, Japan, Korea, Russia, and the U.S. The Vice President of Indonesia opened the meeting stating that regional cooperation will be tested as ASEAN faces uncertainties in the global economy and the shaky functioning of multilateral institutions and governance. He also reminded participants that ASEAN needs to think about the large and increasingly powerful Chinese economy and the huge Indian economy that is also making rapid progress.
The European Commissioner for Health and Consumer Policy has stated that he welcomes the decision by Russia to cancel the temporary import requirements for fresh European Union vegetables that was imposed due to the outbreak of E. Coli in Germany. The decision implements the political agreement reached between Presidents Barroso and Medvedev in June 2011, which provided, among other things, that the temporary certification system introduced for the imports of fresh EU vegetables would be applied up to 10 days after no new human case linked to E. Coli O104 was reported by EU Member States. The last case was reported on July 27, 2011.
Xinhuanet reports that according to health officials, Russia may lift its ban on fresh vegetable imports from all European Union (EU) states on August 8, 2011 if no new cases of E. coli infection are reported. Russia banned vegetable imports from the EU in early June following an outbreak of a highly virulent strain of the E. coli bacteria that has killed some 40 people in Europe. The ban has been gradually lifted as measures have been taken to prevent the infected vegetables from supplying to Russia. Five EU countries - Estonia, Germany, Lithuania, Latvia and Slovenia - are still waiting for Russia's sanitary watchdog's permits to sell vegetables to Russia.