EU Customs & Global Trade Law Monitor - Week 14

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Official Journal of the EU Check

08/04/2022 L109L110L111C154C155C156

07/04/2022L108C153

06/04/2022L107L107IC151C151IC152

05/04/2022L106C150

04/04/2022L105C147C148C149

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.

Council Regulation (EU) 2022/580 of 8 April 2022 amending Regulation (EU) No 269/2014 concerning restrictive measures in respect of actions undermining or threatening the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine

Council Implementing Regulation (EU) 2022/581 of 8 April 2022 implementing Regulation (EU) No 269/2014 concerning restrictive measures in respect of actions undermining or threatening the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine

Council Regulation (EU) 2022/576 of 8 April 2022 amending Regulation (EU) No 833/2014 concerning restrictive measures in view of Russia’s actions destabilising the situation in Ukraine

Council Regulation (EU) 2022/577 of 8 April 2022 amending Regulation (EC) No 765/2006 concerning restrictive measures in view of the situation in Belarus and the involvement of Belarus in the Russian aggression against Ukraine

Council Decision (CFSP) 2022/578 of 8 April 2022 amending Decision 2014/512/CFSP concerning restrictive measures in view of Russia’s actions destabilising the situation in Ukraine

Council Decision (CFSP) 2022/579 of 8 April 2022 amending Decision 2012/642/CFSP concerning restrictive measures in view of the situation in Belarus and the involvement of Belarus in the Russian aggression against Ukraine

Council Decision (CFSP) 2022/582 of 8 April 2022 amending Decision 2014/145/CFSP concerning restrictive measures in respect of actions undermining or threatening the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine

Classification

Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2022/556 of 1 April 2022 concerning the classification of certain goods in the Combined Nomenclature

Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2022/557 of 1 April 2022 concerning the classification of certain goods in the Combined Nomenclature

Anti Dumping Duty

Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2022/558 of 6 April 2022 imposing a definitive anti-dumping duty and definitively collecting the provisional duty imposed on imports of certain graphite electrode systems originating in the People’s Republic of China

Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2022/547 of 5 April 2022 imposing a definitive anti-dumping duty on imports of superabsorbent polymers originating in the Republic of Korea.

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

Other

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