INSIGHT EU: TRADE & COMMERCE Telegram 7 September 2017 (with links)

Our telegram headlines today*: 

# EXPORTS CONTROL: 

• EU Commission to launch global Alliance for Torture-Free Trade +++ 
• EU rules on control of arms exports [Plenary Podcast] - EP - Research Service +++ 

# EFTA: 

• ST 10902 2017 REV 1 Forward Look for September to December 2017 (EFTA) +++ 

# USA: 

• TRANSATLANTIC CHALLENGES - EPC POLICY DIALOGUE: Developing sustainable road transport systems in the EU and the U.S. - Lessons learned and prospects for deeper cooperation +++ 
• U.S. Department of Commerce Issues Affirmative Preliminary Antidumping Duty Determinations on Carbon and Alloy Steel Wire Rod from Belarus, Russia, and the United Arab Emirates +++ 

# CHINA

• Pittella: S&Ds against 'de facto' recognition of Market Economy Status for China - Burden of proof on EU industry unacceptable

# JAPAN

• UK Prime Minister's speech to UK Japan Business Forum

# RUSSIA

• Russian President: Documentation of the plenary session of the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok.
• New version of the state programme Socioeconomic Development of the Arctic Zone of the Russian Federation - Russian Government
• Submitting to the State Duma a draft law to ratify the Agreement between the governments of Russia and China to protect classified technologies in the course of cooperation in the peaceful exploration and use of outer space - Russian Government
• CDU/CSU: Gabriel gefährdet außenpolitische Berechenbarkeit Deutschlands - Vollständige Umsetzung des Minsker Abkommens Voraussetzung für Lockerung der Sanktionen

# CUBA

• EU Commission Answer - VP/HR - Tangible measures against the US embargo on Cuba, its extraterritorial effects and public rejection of Trump's announced reversal of improvements in US-Cuba relations - E-004068/2017

# BRAZIL

• ST 11040 2017 INIT COUNCIL DECISION concerning the renewal of the Agreement for scientific and technological cooperation between the European Community and the Federative Republic of Brazil

# CANADA

• ST 11931 2017 INIT Draft EU-Canada PNR Agreement - Opinion 1/15 of the Court of Justice on its compatibility with the Treaties

# TRADE JUSTICE

• Corporate Europe Obersvatory: Corporate smear: report exposes corporate lobbies trying to discredit the movement for trade justice

# DIGITAL TRADE

• EP Draft report - Towards a digital trade strategy - PE 609.638v01-00 - Committee on International Trade

# TRADE DEFENCE

• EU Commission - DG Trade: Notice concerning the judgment of 1 June 2017 in case T-442/12 in relation to Council Implementing Regulation (EU) No 626/2012 amending Implementing Regulation (EU) No 349/2012 imposing a definitive anti-dumping duty on imports of tartaric acid originating in the People’s Republic of China
• New trade defence investigation initiated R529a

# EU COMMISSION REGISTER

• FPI
• COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING DECISION on the interim response programme in favour of the Middle East and North Africa - Counter-Terrorism Training and Strengthening Community Resilience against Violent Extremism

# EU PARLIAMENT REGISTER

• Erratum 1 - Recommendations to the Council, the Commission and the EEAS on the negotiations of the modernisation of the trade pillar of the EU-Chile Association Agreement - A8-0267/2017/err1 - Committee on International Trade
• Latest news - Next meeting - Delegation for relations with the Arab Peninsula
• Latest news - Next meeting - Delegation for relations with the Maghreb countries and the Arab Maghreb Union

# EU COUNCIL REGISTER

• CM 3940 2017 INIT Working Party on European Free Trade Association (EFTA)
• CM 3737 2017 REV 1 EASTERN EUROPE AND CENTRAL ASIA WORKING PARTY (a.m.)
• CM 3899 2017 REV 1 Working Party on the Western Balkans region
• CM 3920 2017 REV 1 Meeting of the Mashreq/Maghreb Working Party
• ST 11937 2017 INIT Summary of discussions of the Foreign Relations Counsellors/Sanctions formation Working Party meeting held on 18 July 2017
• ST 11493 2017 INIT Draft COUNCIL IMPLEMENTING DECISION authorising the Republic of Poland to conclude with the Republic of Ukraine an agreement that includes provisions derogating from point (d) of Article 2(1) and Article 5 of Directive 2006/112/EC on the common system of value added tax, as regards the maintenance of road bridges on the Poland-Ukraine border - Adoption
• CM 3972 2017 INIT WORKING PARTY ON ENLARGEMENT AND COUNTRIES NEGOTIATING ACCESSION TO THE EU

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