2011年5月25日水曜日

BIS amend CCL to reflect Wassenaar 2010 dual-use list

On May 20th, BIS published amendments to the CCL corresponding to the changes multilaterally agreed by the Wassenaar Arrangement December 2010. 
We can already see the amended CCL in web site.

As posted in blog, Japan also updated the control items list to accomodate Wassenaar 2010 list and will implement it on July 02, 2011.  This quick change of the list both US and Japan will positively affect both US and Japan exporters.  Operational concern for traders are the disparities with other EU list following countries such as Singapore, Malaysia, and Taiwan.

2011年5月19日木曜日

AEO mutual recognition between Japan - Korea

According to Nikkei Newspaper on May 19, 2011, government of Japan and Korea is likely to announce mutual recognition of AEO shortly.  At this point of time, I find no official announcement on Japan Customs web site, but perhaps will be available soon.

As for AEO operators, 370 companies are registered in Japan such as Toyota or Nippon Express, while Korea has 141 companies.  Ministry of Finance expect the trade between Japan and Korea increase in area of steel industry or semiconductor industry.
Japan have had AEO mutual recognition with New Zealand, US.  Signed with EU and Canada.  On progress with Singapore, China and Malaysia.

(Additional Update)
This news was officially annoucned on May 20 by MOF press release.
http://www.mof.go.jp/customs_tariff/trade/facilitation/ka230520.htm

2011年5月14日土曜日

Japan reflect WA Dec 2010 list update on July 1st, 2011

As of March 05, 2011, Japanese METI published new export control list update in its public comment web site.  The list update is to reflect the list change of international regimes, such as Wassenaar Arrangement ("WA") December 2010 list update.

On May 13, 2011, METI announced the list update will be officially issued on May 18, and be forced in place on July 1, 2011.  I will analyze the list change after May 18.

(Reference: http://www.meti.go.jp/press/2011/05/20110513001/20110513001.html )

2011年5月10日火曜日

Japan-EU AEO mutual recongnition implement on May 24, 2011

On June 24, 2010, Ministry of Finance ("MOF") in Japan announced that Japan and EU signed the Decision establishing mutual recognition of AEO between the EU and Japan.  This mutual recognition offers enhanced trade facilitation opportunities provided by customs to certified AEO traders in both sides who have invested in securing their supply chains.

Now, Japanese MOF and Customs jointly announced that Japan-EU AEO mutual recognition will be implemented on May 24, 2011. 
AEO trader in Japan will be treated as good compliance trader in EU by informing JPN-EU mutual recognition code to their trade counter part in EU.  The benefits would be their goods will go through a so called "green lane" in customs clearance.
Likewise, in order to have mutual recognition benefits in Japan in trade with EU porters, Japanese trader request their JPN-EU mutual recognition code to EU partners, and input the code into NACCS system in customs declaration, will be treated accordingly.  The code is 12 digits number like A1B34567NL00.

(Reference:  http://www.customs.go.jp/zeikan/seido/aeo/leaflet_23-05.pdf )

2011年5月5日木曜日

Navigating Japan's Export Control Regime

I wrote an export control article, with contribution of my colleagues, for professional export control magazine, WorldECR issue 2, April 2011.
My part is page 17 to 21, total 5 pages of article, outlining key elements of Japan's export control summary, such as Legal structure, Reasons for control, Framework of control, License management, ICP, Recent update, and FAQ for traders. 
The article can be found here:  http://www.bryancavetrade.com/sitebranches/publications/docs/Japan%20-%20Bryan%20Cave.pdf

(reference: www.worldecr.com )

2011年5月2日月曜日

What's the most popluar FTA for Japanese exporter?

Japan currently implement total 11 FTAs, with Singapore, Malaysia, Mexico, Chile, Thai, Indonesia, Brunei, Asean, Philippines, Switzerland, and Vietnam.  What FTA is the most popular for Japanese exporter?


METI announced one interesting statistics to answer this question.  It is the number of Certificate of Origin ("CO") in Japan.  Please be noted this number shows the FTA utilization in export from Japan, so import into Japan is different.


In March 2011, total 10,305 COs for FTA were issued in Japan.  Among them, the top is for Thailand (4,785 issued), and the second is for Indonesia (2,504 issued).  The combination of Thailand and Indonesia consists of 71% of FTA COs.  Then, following countries are:


3rd:  Malaysia (788)
4th:  Chile (523)
5th:  Mexico (462)
6th:  Asean (429)


Although this is the result of the latest one month record, but representing comprehensive picture what FTAs are popularly used for Japanese exporters.


(Reference:  http://www.meti.go.jp/policy/trade_policy/epa/file/co_issuance.pdf )