More Trade News in Brief – Week 29 (9 July – 15 July 2012)

* Free Online Tool for Trade and Market

 

The International Trade Centre (ITC) has redeveloped its free online analysis tool Market Access Map.

 

Market Access Map is an interactive analytical web tool informing about tariffs and non-tariff measures (NTMs) and other market access conditions.

 

The tool is available at www.macmap.org.

 

More here.

 

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* Mozambique Sign IMO Anti-piracy Code

 

6 July 2012

 

Mozambique is the 20th state to The Code of Conduct concerning the Repression of Piracy and Armed Robbery against Ships in the Western Indian Ocean and the Gulf of Aden (Djibouti Code of Conduct) developed by International Maritime Organization (IMO).

 

More here.

 

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* CARICOM-Canada Revised FTA

 

The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and Canada express their desire to agree a revised free trade agreement to replace the actual CARIBCAN preferential trade programme until the end of the year.

 

More here.

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* Japan & Liechtenstein Sign TIEA

 

Japan & Liechtenstein sign bilateral Tax Information Exchange Agreement (TIEA) in accordance with the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development’s (OECD) model convention.

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* Ghana Signs Tax Cooperation Agreement

 

10 July 2012

 

Ghana is the second African country, after South Africa, to sign the Convention on Mutual Administrative Assistance in Tax Matters, a multilateral agreement developed by the Council of Europe and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).

UN Agencies, EU and IMO Sign Strategic Counter-piracy Partnerships

17 May 2012, London

 

A number of United Nations (UN) Agencies, the European Union (EU) and the International Maritime Organization (IMO) sign a number of five strategic counter-piracy capacity building partnerships.

 

The capacity building is view like a mechanism to tackle the piracy issue, with focus on  building maritime infrastructure and law enforcement capacity and on implementation of the Djibouti Code of Conduct.

 

For more information please refer to the IMO’s webpage.