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The following is excerpted from a 23 August 2012 report by the World Customs Organization.At the invitation of Carolyn Tremain, the Chief Executive and Comptroller of the New Zealand Customs Service, the Secretary General of the WCO, Kunio Mikuriya, visited Wellington for discussions on various…
The following is excerpted from a 21 August 2012 press release by the World Trade Organization.On 21 August 2012, Japan and the United States notified separately the WTO Secretariat of a request for consultations with Argentina on alleged import restrictions caused by a system of non-automatic…
The following is excerpted from a 22 August 2012 press release by the World Trade Organization.Today (22 August 2012), Russia becomes the 156th WTO member. Vanuatu will join the WTO on 24 August as its 157th member. “Once again this year, we welcome two new members in the WTO family. It has been a…
The following is from a 17 August 2012 news item by the World Trade Organization.On 17 August 2012, Argentina notified the WTO Secretariat of a request for consultations with the European Union on Spanish restrictions to the imports of biodiesel from Argentina. Argentina claims that Spain put in…
The following is excerpted from a 20 August 2012 report by the World Customs Organization.At the invitation of Jitoko Tikolevu, CEO of the Fiji Revenue and Customs Authority (FRCA), Kunio Mikuriya, the Secretary General of the WCO, visited Suva, Fiji on 20 August 2012 for the opening ceremony of the…
The following is excerpted from a 14 August 2012 press release by the World Customs Organization.On 14 August 2012, Bosnia and Herzegovina deposited its instrument of accession to the International Convention on the Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System (Harmonized System) with the…
The following is excerpted from a 26 July 2012 press release by the World Trade Organization.Sweden has made a contribution of CHF 4.6 million (SEK 32 million) to the Doha Development Agenda Global Trust Fund (DDAGTF) and CHF 107,000 (SEK 750,000) to the Trade Trust Fund. With these last two…
The following is excerpted from a 26 July 2012 news item by the World Trade Organization.The General Council, during its meeting on 25-26 July 2012, agreed that the 9th WTO Ministerial Conference would be held in Bali, Indonesia in the first week of December 2013. The chair of the General Council…
The following is a 25 July 2012 news item from the World Trade Organization.WTO members, meeting as the General Council on 25 July 2012, formally approved new guidelines to enable least developed countries to negotiate membership of the WTO more quickly and easily.The decision was taken following an…