EU Customs & Global Trade Law Monitor - Week 14
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Official Journal of the EU Check
08/04/2022 L109L110L111C154C155C156
06/04/2022L107L107IC151C151IC152
Findings
Sanctions
The fifth package of sanctions was imposed in response to Russia's armed action against Ukraine: The EU imposes further restrictions on 217 persons and 18 businesses.
The EU decided to reinforce the EU's sanctions lists by imposing additional sanctions on 217 individuals and 18 entities, adding more persons from politics, business, and propaganda, as well as additional companies from the financial, military, industrial, and transportation sectors. The list includes:
High-ranking Kremlin officials,
Oligarchs - Moshe Kantor, Boris Rotenberg, and Oleg Deripaska
Other prominent businesspeople involved in key economic sectors such as energy, finance, media, defence and the arms industry,
Proponents of disinformation and information manipulation, who are systematically spreading the Kremlin's false narrative on the situation in Ukraine Family members of previously sanctioned persons:
Maria Vladimirovna Vorontsova
Ekaterina Vladimirovna Tikhonova, the daughters of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
So-called ministers and members of the so-called 'People's Councils' of the so-called 'Donetsk People's Republic' and 'Luhansk People's Republic' have been banned.
In sum, the EU's sanctions currently apply to 1091 persons and 80 businesses. Assets of those named are frozen, and EU people and corporations are prohibited from making cash accessible to them. Natural people are also subject to travel restrictions, which stop them from entering or transiting EU territory.
Classification
Anti Dumping Duty
DG TAXUD
Nothing to report
DG TRADE
Commission reports on seventh negotiation round with five Eastern and Southern African countries to deepen existing Economic Partnership Agreement
As part of its transparency commitment, the European Commission has published the report summarising progress made during the latest negotiation round to deepen the existing Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) with five Eastern and Southern African partners (ESA5): Comoros, Madagascar, Mauritius, Seychelles and Zimbabwe.
https://trade.ec.europa.eu/doclib/press/index.cfm?id=2380
EU counters dumped imports of graphite electrodes from China
Today (7 April 2022), the European Commission has imposed anti-dumping duties on imports of graphite electrodes from China.
https://trade.ec.europa.eu/doclib/press/index.cfm?id=2379
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