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Africa and The Middle East

U.S. Lifts Nuclear-Related Sanctions On Iran After Determining Compliance With JCPOA
(Text Document)
January 19, 2016
S. African Trade Department 'Confident' U.S. Poultry To Arrive Within Weeks, Obama To Withdraw AGOA Threat
(Text Document)
January 12, 2016
Commerce Preliminary Finds Countervailable Subsidization Of Brazilian Hot-Rolled Steel; Turkey, South Korea Given De Minimus Rates
(Text Document)
January 12, 2016
Despite Deal, Obama Suspends Some AGOA Benefits For S. Africa Effective March 15
(Daily News)
January 11, 2016

Updated: President Barack Obama on Monday (Jan. 11) officially suspended duty-free treatment for South African agricultural products granted under the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA), effective March 15, ratcheting up pressure on Pretoria to implement a deal that would lift restrictions on U.S. poultry.
Obama Issues Order To Suspend South Africa's AGOA Ag Product Benefits On March 15 Despite Meat Issue Resolution
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January 11, 2016
Seychelles Becomes 66th WTO Member To Ratify TFA
(File Document)
January 11, 2016
U.S., South Africa Reach Meat Agreement, Averting AGOA Suspension
(Text Document)
January 07, 2016
U.S., South Africa Reach Meat Agreement Averting AGOA Suspension
(Text Document)
January 07, 2016
South African Poultry Association Blasts U.S. For Raising Salmonella Complaint Late In Negotiations
(Text Document)
January 06, 2016
EU Defends GMO Opt-Out Policy While Responding To Foreign Governments' Comments
(Text Document)
January 04, 2016
South Africa Says Negotiations With U.S. Over Poultry, Pork, Beef Market Access '95 Percent' Done
(Text Document)
January 04, 2016
Commerce Postpones Preliminary CVD Determination In Pakistan Steel Tube Investigation
(File Document)
December 31, 2015
Commerce Preliminarily Determines Subsidization Of Turkish Carbon Steel Pipe & Tube
(File Document)
December 24, 2015
S. Africa Sets Up TRQ For U.S. Chicken, But AGOA Benefits Still Imperiled
(Daily News)
December 24, 2015

South Africa has taken a further step toward resolving its ongoing dispute with the U.S. over barriers to meat trade by publishing guidelines laying out how Pretoria will administer a tariff-rate quota (TRQ) giving U.S. chicken exporters additional access to the South African market. But whether the regulation will serve as a starting point toward new market access for U.S. poultry producers is still up in the air.
Turkey Does Not Join Expanded ITA After U.S. Objects To Final Schedule
(Daily News)
December 23, 2015

Turkey did not join the expanded Information Technology Agreement (ITA) concluded last week at the World Trade Organization ministerial in Nairobi, after the United States refused to lift objections it had put on Turkey's final offer over the way certain duty phaseouts were structured, according to Geneva sources.
Obama Removes Burundi As Beneficiary Of AGOA, Makes Other Technical FTA Changes
(Text Document)
December 21, 2015
At Nairobi Bilateral, Davies, Froman Recommitted To Resolving Poultry Dispute
(Text Document)
December 21, 2015
Davies: South Africa Poised To Implement Poultry Deal, Close On SPS Issues
(Daily News)
December 18, 2015

NAIROBI, Kenya -- South African Trade Minister Rob Davies said Thursday (Dec. 17) his government was slated to publish the following day a legal document that will implement a new tariff-rate quota (TRQ) for U.S. poultry, and that he hopes three remaining sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) issues can be resolved before the end of the year in order to avoid the U.S. withdrawing some of the trade preferences it grants to South Africa.
South Africa Issues Poultry TRQ Protocol With Annual Growth Factor, Import Cap At 65,000 MT
(Text Document)
December 18, 2015
Myanmar, Norway, Vietnam, Brunei, Zambia, Ukraine Ratify TFA
(Text Document)
December 17, 2015

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