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EU launches negotiations to deepen trade relations with Eastern and Southern Africa countries

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On 2 October, 2019, in Mauritius, the EU started negotiations with five Eastern and Southern Africa partners (so-called ESA: Comoros, Madagascar, Mauritius, Seychelles and Zimbabwe) to deepen the existing Economic Partnership Agreement. Given the positive results generated by the current agreement, now in its 8th year of implementation, the five countries have declared their readiness to move beyond trade in goods, towards a more comprehensive agreement. The EU has welcomed this step, especially in the context of…

US – President modifies HTS to reflect GSP, AGOA changes

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On October 5, 2015, the Federal Register published Proclamation 9333 of September 30, 2015 – To Modify Duty-Free Treatment Under the Generalized System of Preferences and for Other Purposes. The proclamation: • modifies, effective October 1, 2015, the Rates of Duty 1–Special subcolumn for the corresponding Chapter 52, HTS subheadings in order to designate certain articles as eligible articles only when imported from a least-developed (LD) beneficiary developing country (BDC) for purposes of the Generalized…

General Council approves Seychelles’ WTO membership

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The WTO announced that WTO members adopted Seychelles’ WTO terms of entry at the General Council meeting on 10 December 2014. Seychelles will have until 1 June 2015 to ratify the deal to formally become a WTO member 30 days after it notifies the ratification to the WTO Director-General. Once the accession procedure is completed, the Seychelles will become the 161st member of the WTO. Seychelles originally applied for WTO membership in 1995 and the…