On May 3 the Foreign Agricultural Service posted 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:
On May 2 the Foreign Agricultural Service posted the following GAIN reports:
The International Trade Commission published notices in the May 2 Federal Register on the following AD/CV injury, Section 337 patent, and other trade proceedings (any notices that warrant a more detailed summary will be in another ITT article):
The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission began a five-year sunset review of the antidumping duty order on hot-rolled carbon steel flat products from Russia (A-821-809).
Switzerland is now on the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative's lower-tier watch list for copyright and other intellectual property rights violations, USTR said April 27 in its annual Special 301 report on the global status of IP rights enforcement (here). China and India remain on USTR's mid-tier priority watch list, which includes nine other countries, because ongoing IP rights enforcement problems outweigh efforts to reform both nations' IP laws. USTR again chose not to include any countries on its higher-tier priority foreign country list.
On April 22 the Foreign Agricultural Service posted the following GAIN reports:
In recent editions of the Official Journal of the European Union the following trade-related notices were posted (here):
Russia on April 22 became the 77th World Trade Organization member to ratify the WTO Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA), the WTO announced (here). “I was very happy to meet with [Russian] Minister [of Economic Development Alexey] Ulyukaev today and receive Russia’s instrument of acceptance,” WTO Director-General Roberto Azevêdo said in a statement. “The WTO’s Trade Facilitation Agreement is particularly important for such a large nation bridging two continents. Trade facilitation can help Russia expand its trade relations and diversify its economy by significantly reducing the time and costs of moving goods across its many borders.”
On April 20 the Foreign Agricultural Service posted the following GAIN reports:
The Bureau of Industry and Security denied for 10 years the export privileges of: (1) Paweena Pechner, who on July 17, 2014, was convicted of Arms Control Export Act (AECA) violations for her role in shipments of U.S. Munitions List (USML)-designated defense articles to Thailand (here); and of (2) Alexandre Astakhov, who on May 7, 2015, was convicted of similar AECA violations in connection with the attempted export to Russia of two L-3 CNVD-T thermal clip-on night vision devices (here), BIS said. Neither Pechner nor Astakhov had obtained a State Department license or written approval for their alleged actions, BIS said. The agency also revoked all licenses issued pursuant to the Arms Export Control Act or the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) in which Pechner and Astakhov had an interest in at the time of their convictions. Both export privilege denial periods are effective from the respective conviction dates.