Still Waiting in the Wings

KORUS kicks in as Colombia, Panama FTAs cool their heels by Bill Armbruster, blog anchor The Korean-US free trade agreement enters into force tomorrow, March 15. As I wrote here last month, the progress of FTAs is stately indeed: After President Obama signed the...

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US, EU Agree on What’s Organic

Each recognizes the other’s certification, opens market to imports The US and European Commission have reached an agreement that, in recognizing the equivalence of their organic certification programs, will open their markets to each other’s organic products effective...

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By the Numbers

New products in trade call for new classification codes With the New Year, an updated 2012 edition of the 6-digit Harmonized System (HS) of product classification codes overseen by the World Customs Organization (WCO) goes into effect. It’s the fourth such update, the...

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Evidence Points to Injury

USITC votes to pursue case on Chinese solar product dumping The US International Trade Commission has voted unanimously that there is reasonable indication that the US solar industry is materially injured by imports of crystalline silicon photovoltaic cells and...

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Wanted: Supply Chain Experts

Committee to advise Commerce, DOT on improving flow of goods The job’s unpaid, but it does offer an opportunity to give your two cents’ worth to the US Departments of Commerce and Transportation on what it will take to make US supply chains more competitive globally...

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