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News in week 35: review of anti-subsidy and anti-dumping measures on continuous filament glass fibre products from China; review of anti-dumping measures on bicycles from China; practice directions … to parties concerning cases brought before the CJEU; EU and China launch Cross-Border Data Flow Communication Mechanism; Timor-Leste joined the WTO on 30 August as its 166th member.

New Labour Government announces free trade negotiations strategy. UK joins global digital trade agreement. Animal Welfare Act. Economic Interest Test. Registration of imports of suspension poly … (vinyl chloride) from the United States of America. The Trade Remedies Authority review into polyethylene terephthalate from India.

News at a glance: exemption from customs duties and VAT on imports of energy and demining equipment was approved; illegal imports and exports of goods of significant value (smuggling) is now … a criminal offence instead of being subject to administrative penalties; updated Canada-Ukraine Free Trade Agreement entered into force; EU-Ukraine duty-free trade was extended; changes were made to the list of agricultural products where exports are subject to licensing; inward processing procedure was allowed for some vehicles and their bodies; the State Electronic Export Control System was launched as a pilot; progress was made on the development of the AEO programme in Ukraine.

News in week 30: first global rules on digital trade - the WTO the E-commerce Agreement; WTO issued new edition of World Tariff Profiles; EU-Singapore Digital Trade Agreement complements FTA; … European Council extends economic sanctions against Russia and Belarus for 6 months; EU regulations classifying hair dye advertising catalogue and passive optical splitters for telecommunications; tariff quotas for groats originating in Ukraine; updates on anti-dumping and anti-subsidy measures on PET originating in India, glyoxylic acid originating in China, pipe fittings originating in China and Thailand, monosodium glutamate originating in China; changes to the representative price for frozen chicken parts originating in Brazil; and more news!

‘Other legislation applied by the customs authorities’ means legislation other than customs legislation applicable to the goods entering, exiting, passing through the customs territory of the … Union, or to be placed in the Union market, in the implementation of which the customs authorities are involved.

Uniform customs laws apply in a customs territory and there are no internal customs duties or similar taxes. A customs territory comprises territories including their territorial waters, inland … waters and airspace.

Non-tariff measures are policy measures other than ordinary customs tariffs that can potentially have an economic impact on international trade in goods by changing the quantities traded, prices … or both.

REACH stands for Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals. It is the main EU legislation for the regulation of chemicals in the EU. It is a single economic market … measure applying in the European Economic Area (EEA). EU REACH ceased to have effect in Great Britain from 1 January 2021. The Government has put in place a separate UK REACH regime that applies to businesses that import, make, sell or distribute chemicals in Great Britain, whether as raw materials or in their finished state. Northern Ireland stays within the jurisdiction of EU REACH.