AUTO PARTS

Council Regulation 2018/2069 is the first of the two new Regulations. It amends Regulation 1387/2013 (a so-called Framework Regulation), which suspends the autonomous common customs tariff duties on certain agricultural and industrial products. Interestingly for Hong Kong traders, this new Regulation states that the EU production of 87 products that have not thus far been listed in the Annex to Regulation 1387/2013 is inadequate or non-existent. More

As of 1 January 2019, some 118 industrial and automotive products, including turbines and a range of chemical, paper and textile manufacturing equipment, will no longer require import licences, according to a new joint directive issued by the Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) and the General Administration of Customs (GAC). More

Topics: Mexico Begins AD Investigation on Pressure Cookers; Mexico Begins AD Sunset Review on Tableware and Kitchenware; Brazil Amends AD Price Undertaking for Technical Porcelanate; Brazil Begins Sunset Review on Motorcycle Tyres; More

Additional tariffs on US imports to China are to be suspended following a meeting between the leaders of the two countries. As a consequence, the proposed tariff increases on 211 categories of US goods have been put on hold by the State Council's Customs Tariff Commission for a three-month period commencing 1 January 2019. More