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On December 23, 2014, the President issued Presidential Proclamation 9223 of December 23, 2014 — To Take Certain Actions Under the African Growth and Opportunity Act and for Other Purposes (published in the Federal Register on December 30, 2014) The Proclamation: • Designates Guinea-Bissau as a beneficiary sub-Saharan African country and revises general note 16(a) to the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (HTS) by inserting in alphabetical sequence in the list of beneficiary sub-Saharan…

On 18 June 2014, the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) announced that the free trade agreement (FTA) between the EFTA States – Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland – and the Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf (GCC), comprising Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, will become operational for all parties. The FTA, which was signed five years ago, covers activities such as trade in goods, trade in…