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Recognizing the key role that Customs plays in regulating wildlife trade and preserving biodiversity, the WCO reaffirms its unwavering support for World Wildlife Day. This year's theme, “Connecting People and Planet: Exploring Digital Innovation in Wildlife Conservation" resonates with the WCO's focus on digital transformation to improve Customs efficiency, enhance enforcement, and facilitate legitimate trade in today’s globally connected landscape.
HMRC has announced that traders can begin submitting CDS Export declarations for goods that move through all routes, including inventory linked maritime locations, starting from 4th March 2024.
As previously announced, traders will have until 4th of June 2024 to move to the Customs Declaration Service. After this date users will no longer be able to submit customs declarations through CHIEF.
WTO members concluded the 13th Ministerial Conference (MC13) in Abu Dhabi on 2 March with the adoption of a Ministerial Declaration setting out a forward-looking, reform agenda for the organization. Ministers also took a number of ministerial decisions, including renewing the commitment to have a fully and well-functioning dispute settlement system by 2024 and to improve use of the special and differential treatment provisions for developing and least developed countries.
It also recognized the contribution of women's economic empowerment and women's participation in trade to economic growth and sustainable development.
On 1 March 2024, EU Commission launched the Proof of Union Status (PoUS) system phase 1, which replaces the paper T2L and T2LF proofs and offers the benefit that Economic Operators and Customs Authorities have access to the data throughout the whole process.?
The system will make the T2L/T2LF and Customs Goods Manifest data available to use when goods having Union status are moved between EU Member States while leaving the EU customs territory temporarily.?
The EU Council added 27 new entities to the list of those directly supporting Russia’s military and industrial complex in its war of aggression against Ukraine. They will be subject to tighter export restrictions concerning dual use goods and technologies, as well as goods and technology which might contribute to the technological enhancement of Russia’s defence and security sector. Some of these ?entities are located in third countries (India, Sri Lanka, China, Serbia, Kazakhstan, Thailand, and Türkiye) and have been involved in the circumvention of trade restrictions, others are Russian entities involved in the development, production and supply of electronic components for Russia’s military and industrial complex.
The compliance panel recommended that the US bring its measures into conformity with its obligations under the 1994 General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and the Agreement on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures.
Following the result of the report both parties can now request the adoption of the compliance panel report by the WTO Dispute Settlement Body. If adopted, the report will become binding between the EU and the US, and the US will have to take immediate action to implement the ruling and remove the duties.
Thursday, 22 February, the Internal Market Committee adopted its position on the EU Customs Code reform that will restructure the way customs authorities work in the EU.
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Russian timber imports were banned in the fifth round of EU sanctions, ratified by Member States in April 2022.
However, according to Brussels Times, the Environment Ministry has found evidence that imports have continued. Using a forensic laboratory located at the Royal Museum for Central Africa (RMCA) in Tervuren, inspectors were able to determine that several wood shipments had arrived from Russia.
DEFRA has identified several common errors through the documentary checks undertaken since 31st January.
The summary can be found here.?
The Foreign Secretary, David Cameron, on 22 February, announced more than 50 new sanctions targeting individuals and businesses sustaining Putin’s illegal war in Ukraine.?The new sanctions also target key sources of Russian revenue, clamping down on metals, diamonds, and energy trade.
The UK also launches its first sanctions strategy on 22 February, which sets out how our sanctions regimes are tackling malign activity and making a difference.
View the full UK Sanctions List.
As Barbourne Brook writes, a new statutory instrument will come into effect on 13th March 2024 and will make exporters accountable for notifying their overseas customers if they become aware of any material errors in Certificates of Origin issued to them.
This is the first time that exporters have become subject of HMRC fines for issuing incorrect Certificates of Origin and demonstrates a move by HMRC to tighten up on the finer details of post-Brexit legislation.
The Trade Remedies Authority has published its reconsidered decisions relating to anti-dumping measures on imports of aluminium extrusions from China.
The grounds for requesting a reconsideration are based on the applicant’s claims that the anti-dumping duties imposed do not accurately reflect the level of injurious dumping. The applicant also considers that the measure should not have excluded large extrusions.
The TRA found that imports would be likely to increase if the safeguard measure were to expire and serious injury to the UK's steel industry would likely recur across all 15 categories of steel. These conclusions are based on the data provided to the TRA, the overcapacity in the global steel market, the risk of steel being diverted to the UK due to measures in other major markets and the attractiveness of the UK steel market.