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In a statement to mark the third anniversary of AUKUS, the leaders of Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States, reaffirmed their commitment to this historic partnership and acknowledged progress to date.
The governments of Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States met as the “Export Enforcement Five” (E5) in their second annual conference in Washington, D.C.
The group's statement noted their efforts to prevent the diversion of sensitive technologies and materials that support Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
Representatives from the global steel industry called for common emissions measurement methodologies at the WTO’s Public Forum
“Despite the constraints of time, the constraints of funds and training, and research and development, I am quite confident that the global steel industry is on track to reduce CO2 emissions, and this will already be visible by 2030 and 2040,” said Edwin Basson, Director General of the World Steel Association.
The Treasury Department has designated a network of five entities and one individual – based in Russia and in the Russia-occupied Georgian region of South Ossetia – that have enabled and supported ongoing efforts to establish illicit payment mechanisms between Russia and North Korea.
Among the China Week Legislation, the House of Representatives passed a bill amending the Export Control Reform Act of 2018 (ECRA) to include trade secret protections. If enacted, this would expand regulatory authority over information not currently covered by U.S. export control laws.
As a result, U.S. companies may need government approval before disclosing trade secrets, even in non-traditional export transactions, and may face stricter requirements for safeguarding such information.
Attempts to appoint facilitators and small groups by the chair of the World Trade Organization Doha agriculture negotiations have fallen flat because of doubts and suspicions raised over the exclusion of several members from a small group meeting held earlier this month, said people familiar with the discussions.
The United States apparently lamented that if members are not able to agree on the process, then how can anything be agreed in the stalled Doha agriculture negotiations, said several people who took part in the meeting.
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