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TRADE CONTENT UPDATES

BRAZIL

CANADA

EUROPEAN UNION

FRANCE

HONGKONG

IVORY COAST

JAPAN

MEXICO

NEW ZEALAND

There has been an update to National Register of the Inapt and Suspended Companies (CEIS), adding 132, modifying 564 and deleting 458 RPL records.

1. There has been an update to Terrorism Financing Canada List (TFCL), adding 1 RPL record.

2. There has been an update to Royal Canadian Mounted Police - Wanted, adding 2 RPL records and modifying 1 RPL record.

There has been an update to Europe's Most Wanted Fugitives, deleting 3 RPL records.

There has been an update to Interpol Recently Wanted, adding 14, modifying 74 and deleting 24 RPL records.

1. There has been an update to HKMA-13224 Sanctions list, adding 3 RPL records.

2. There has been an update to Hong Kong Securities & Futures Commission - Enforcement Actions, adding 1 RPL record.

There has been an update to List of Debarred Entities by African Development Bank, adding 5 and deleting 5 RPL records.

There has been an update to METI - United Nations Sanctions - South Sudan, adding 2 RPL records.

There has been an update to National Banking and Securities Commission (NBSC) - United Nations New Consolidated Terrorism List, adding 3 and modifying 4 RPL records.

There has been an update to New Zealand Police - Wanted to Arrest, adding 2 and deleting 2 RPL records.

Authority: Brazilian Government

Authority: Dept. of Foreign Affairs and Int'l Trade and Dept. of Public Safety Preparedness

Authority: Royal Canadian Mounted Police

Authority: The European Police Office

Authority: Fugitive Investigative Services

Authority: Hong Kong Monetary Authority

Authority: Hong Kong Securities & Futures Commission

Authority: African Development Bank Group

Authority: Ministry of Foreign Affairs / Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry

Authority: National Banking and Securities Commission

Authority: New Zealand Police

RESTRICTED PARTY LIST UPDATES

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RPL Updates

Landed Cost Updates

Regulatory Updates

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IN THIS ISSUE

QUOTA UPDATESThe quota updates for thisweek includes:Mexico Quota fill-ratesUS Tariff Rate Quota fill-rates

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UNITED KINGDOM

UNITED NATIONS

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There has been an update to Asian Development Bank Sanctions, adding 10 RPL records.

There has been an update to Russia - Terrorist Organizations, deleting 10 RPL records.

There has been an update to Monetary Authority of Singapore - Anti-Money Laundering/Countering the Financing of Terrorism List, adding 3 and modifying 4 RPL records.

1. There has been an update to United Kingdom Financial Conduct Authority – Prohibited Companies and Individuals, adding 11 RPL records.

2. There has been an update to United Kingdom Financial Services Authority – Prohibited individuals, adding 7 RPL records.

3. There has been an update to HM Treasury Consolidated List of Financial Sanctions Targets in the UK, adding 3 RPL records.

There has been an update to United Nations Sanctions – AL-QAIDA, adding 3 and modifying 4 RPL records.

1. There has been an update to OFAC Sanctions, adding 15 RPL records.2. There has been an update to Presidential Executive Order -13224, adding 3 RPL

records.

3. There has been an update to Denied Persons List, modifying 1 RPL record.

4. There has been an update to Human Trafficking Cases - Department of Justice, adding 98 and modifying 4 RPL records.

5. There has been an update to Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) - Enforcement Actions, adding 1 RPL record.

6. There has been an update to FBI Wanted Fugitives - Featured Fugitives, adding 1 RPL record.

7. There has been an update to Inter-American Development Bank – Sanctioned Firms and Individuals, adding 1 RPL record.

8. There has been an update to Professional Medical Conduct and Physician Discipline, adding 4, modifying 14 RPL and deleting 2 RPL records.

9. There has been an update to Restricted, Terminated or Excluded Individuals or Entities, adding 2 and modifying 3 RPL records.

10. There has been an update to Department of Public Welfare Medicheck (Precluded Providers) List of Pennsylvania, adding 2 RPL records and modifying 1 RPL record.

11. There has been an update to US Postal Inspection Service - Most Wanted Posters, deleting 1 RPL record.

12. There has been an update to World Bank Listing of Ineligible Firms, adding 4 and modifying 4 RPL records.

Authority: Asian Development Bank

Authority: National Anti-Terrorist Committee

Authority: The Monetary Authority of Singapore

Authority: Financial Conduct Authority

Authority: Financial Services Authority

Authority: HM Treasury

Authority: Security Council Committee pursuant to Resolutions 1267 (1999) and 1989 (2011) concerning Al-Qaida and associated individuals and entities

Authority: OFAC - Office of Foreign Assets Control

Authority: BIS - Bureau of Industry and Security

Authority: Department of Justice

Authority: DOJ - Criminal Division

Authority: Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)

Authority: Inter-American Development Bank - Sanctions Committee

Authority: New York State Department of Health Office of Professional Medical Conduct

Authority: Office of the Medicaid Inspector General, New York

Authority: Pennsylvania -Department of Public Welfare

Authority: U.S. Postal Inspection Service

Authority: World Bank

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UK Government Prepares For Possibility of No Deal Brexit with Technical Notices

Source: UK Government

The UK government has published a series of technical notices, setting out further detail on the unlikely event that the UK leaves the EU on March 2019 without a deal. The notices will ensure businesses and citizens have time to prepare by setting out steps they may need to take in the event of 'no deal'. In addition, there have been three HMRC notices which have been published covering Customs & Excise, VAT for Business, and UK Trade Tariffs. In addition, a notice on Export Controls has been published.

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TRADEWATCH

The EU Terminates ADD Proceedings of Silicon from Bosnia And Herzegovina & Brazil

Source: Official Journal of the EU

COMESA: 98% of Regional Non-Tariff Barriers Resolved

Source: Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa

WCO Publishes New Guides Supporting the Implementation of AEO Programmes and MRAs

The anti-dumping proceeding concerning imports of silicon with a silicon content of less than 99.99% by actual weight, originating in Bosnia and Herzegovina and in Brazil, currently falling within CN code 2804 69 00 has been terminated.

A total of 199 out of 204 non-tariff barriers to regional trade that have been reported among the COMESA Member States since the establishment of the Tripartite NTB Online Reporting Mechanism in 2008, have been resolved. This represents a success rate of 97.5%. That notwithstanding, a disturbing phenomenon is that reports of NTBs keep coming to the COMESA Secretariat and this frustrates the efforts to enhance intra COMESA Trade, says the COMESA Secretary General Chileshe Kapwepwe. In her speech at the opening of the 34th COMESA Trade and Customs Committee (TCM) meeting in Nairobi, Kenya, the SG observed that though member States had, upon signing the COMESA Treaty agreed to abolish all non-tariff barriers to trade among themselves, new ones kept cropping up thus affecting intraregional trade.

The WCO has published two key documents that will provide detailed guidance and further support for the implementation of Authorized Economic

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LANDED COST UPDATES

AMERICAS

Authority: Jamaica Customs

Authority: Secretariat of Economy (Secretaría de Economía)

Authority: Autoridad Nacional de Aduanas - Panama (National Authority of Customs - Panama)

ASIA-PACIFIC

Authority: Ministry of finance

Authority: Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC), Department of Revenue, Ministry of Finance

EUROPE

Authority: Swiss Customs Authority

Authority: Turkey Ministry of Trade

MIDDLE-EAST/AFRICA

Authority: Cameroon Customs Authority

Authority: Mauritius Revenue Authority

JAMAICA

MEXICO

PANAMA

CHINA

INDIA

SWITZERLAND

TURKEY

CAMEROON

MAURITIUS

There has been an update to the Jamaica Customs Tariff. This update contains changes in default duty rates, descriptions and other taxes (Environmental levy and Standard Compliance Fee), affecting various HTS chapters across the tariff schedule.

There has been an update to Mexico Customs Tariff. This update modifies general duty rates, descriptions and adds certain HS numbers. The following HTS chapter is affected: 72.

There has been an update to Panama Customs Tariff. This update adds HS, deletes HS and modifies preferential duty rates for various products across tariff schedule, affecting various HTS chapters across the tariff schedule.

There has been an update to China Customs Tariff. This update adds HS, deletes HS and modifies preferential duty for various products across tariff schedule, affecting various HTS chapters across the tariff schedule.

There has been an update to India Customs Tariff. This update modifies the default duties for various products. The following HTS chapters are affected: 57, 61 and 62.

There has been an update to Switzerland Customs Tariff. This update includes 2018 tariff changes in HS classification, import duty rates, and various other preferential duty rates across the tariff schedule, affecting various HTS chapters across the tariff schedule.

There has been an update to Turkey Customs Tariff. This updates retaliatory tariff rates imposed against the United States across the tariff schedule, affecting various HTS chapters across the tariff schedule.

There has been an update to Cameroon Customs Tariff. This update includes tariff changes in preferential duty rates across the tariff schedule, affecting various HTS chapters across the tariff schedule.

There has been an update to Mauritius Customs Tariff. This update modifies HS description for a particular product in the Mauritius tariff schedule. The following HTS chapter is affected: 38.

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Operator (AEO) programmes and their complementary Mutual Recognition Arrangements/Agreements (MRAs) in a more effective and harmonized manner globally: the Customs AEO Validator Guide and the MRA Strategy Guide.

Ukraine filed an appeal on August against a WTO panel report in the case brought by the Russian Federation in “Ukraine — Anti-Dumping Measures on Ammonium Nitrate” (DS493). Turkey has requested WTO dispute consultations with the United States concerning additional import duties imposed by the United States on steel and aluminium products. These were just two of the many items to be discussed in Geneva at the Dispute Settlement Body meeting of August 2018, which consists of all WTO members and oversees legal disputes among them.

The biannual seminar on the EEA will take place on Tuesday September 2017 at the EFTA Secretariat's premises in Brussels. The seminar is intended to provide professionals, both inside and outside the European Union, with a thorough understanding of the Agreement on the European Economic Area and how it integrates Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway into the EU's Internal Market. Presentations by the EFTA Secretariat, the EEA and Norway Grants, the EFTA Surveillance Authority and the EFTA Court on the day-to-day operation and management of the EEA Agreement, including recent developments and challenges, will be given. The EEA Seminar is held twice a year.

Source: World Customs Organization

Trade Disputes Filed At WTO

Source World Trade Organization

Seminar on the EEA

Source: European Free Trade Association

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LANDED COST UPDATES contd...SEYCHELLESThere has been an update to Seychelles Landed Cost. This update modifies general duty and preferential rates for certain HS numbers. The following HTS chapters are affected: 61 and 62.Authority: Seychelles Customs

REGULATORY UPDATESAMERICAS

Authority: Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA)

Authority: Secretariat of Economy (Secretaría de Economía)

Authority: United States International Trade Commission

ASIA-PACIFIC

Authority: China Customs Service

Authority: Ministry of Commerce

Authority: Directorate General of Anti-dumping & Allied Duties

Authority: Ministry of Strategy and Finance

EUROPE

Authority: Department for International Trade and Export Control Organisation

CANADA

MEXICO

UNITED STATES

CHINA

INDIA

SOUTH KOREA

UNITED KINGDOM

There has been an update to Canada Import Controls. This update adds anti-dumping duties and countervailing duties on certain Sucker rods from China. The following HTS chapter is affected: 84.

There has been an update to Mexico Import Controls. This update modifies Anti-dumping duty rates for certain products. The following HTS chapters are affected: 07 and 55.

There has been an update to United States Anti-Dumping and Countervailing Duties. This update makes changes to many products across the tariff. The import controls affected by this update are Anti-Dumping and Countervailing duties. For TC customers this update will only contain flags for Anti-Dumping and Countervailing Duties, affecting various HTS chapters across the tariff schedule.

1. There has been an update to China Import Controls. This update adds China CIQ code for the import of products. The following HTS chapters are affected: 20 and 35.

2. There has been an update to China Export Controls. This update adds China CIQ code for the export of products. The following HTS chapter is affected: 20.

3. There has been an update to China Import Controls. This update adds the anti-dumping duties for the product. The following HTS chapter is affected: 40.

There has been an update to India Import Controls. This update adds and modifies controls/requirements for various products. The following HTS chapters are affected: 29 and 30.

There has been an update to South Korea Import Controls. This update imposes Anti-Dumping duties on various products originating in China. The following HTS chapter is affected: 72.

1. There has been a new content to United Kingdom Export Controls. This new content adds licenses to certain countries eligible for OGEL-ISI.

2. There has been a new content to United Kingdom Export Controls. This new content adds licenses to certain dual-use items eligible for OGEL-ISI. The following HTS chapter is affected: 5.

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MIDDLE-EAST/AFRICA

Authority: Saudi Arabia Customs

SAUDI ARABIAThere has been an update to Saudi Arabia Import Controls. This update adds controls to certain products across the tariff. The following HTS chapters are affected: 84 and 85.

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Meeting Among the Northern Triangle Members

Source: El Salvador's Ministry of Economy

E-commerce and What It Means for Agricultural Exports

Source: ProChile

Panama and China Completed Their 2nd Round of FTA Negotiations

Source: Panama's Ministry of Commerce and Industries

The presidents of the Northern Triangle members (El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras) met in the context of the advancing the establishment of the customs union. One of the objectives of the union is to allow for the free movement of people and goods between the three territories. Additionally, the movement process will be simplified by integrated border posts with officials from all 3 countries working together as well as the creation of one single document representing the invoice and the import declaration. This system is to be put in place in selected border posts across all three countries. The union would represent create the 7th economy in Latin America. Guatemala's president further added that this initiative would help harmonize regulations but also create more employment for the local populations.

Two of Chile's export promotion bodies, ProChile and Chilealimentos, conducted a seminar for its local producers where large companies like Amazon and DHL Express participated. The objective was to inform exporters of new ways to export their products using E-commerce platforms developed by Walmart and Amazon. This would allow exporters and producers to gain savings, greater visibility and the possibility to reach new markets and customers.

Last week in Beijing, China hosted Panama for their round of FTA negotiation. The goal was to establish a common baseline in terms of definitions, terminology and objectives of the trade agreement. Furthermore the parties were to express their private sector's positions and get an understanding of their counterpart's.

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