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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.

Article 28 of the Treaty of Rome provides for the temporary suspension of duties under the Common Customs Tariff (CCT) on imports of raw materials and components for further processing. This … is possible where it is established that the EU-based companies are unable to obtain supplies of the product or suitable substitutes. This article aims to describe the process for successfully applying for an autonomous suspension or quota from the initial completion of the prescribed form to the discussions in the Committee rooms in the European Commission in Brussels.

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.

‘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.

Anti-dumping measures may be applied against imports of a product at an export price below its ‘normal value’ (usually the price of the product in the domestic market of the exporting country) … if such dumped imports cause injury to a domestic industry.

Part of the EU’s trade rules enforcement arsenal, the Trade Barriers Regulation is a legal instrument that gives EU companies, industries, associations and Member States the right to lodge a … complaint with the Commission about trade barriers in third countries.