Waterfront Weekly

1月の物流動向 JIFFA

 

DI for Transportation, Warehousing down 3.1 Points in Jan.

 

Japan International Freight Forwarders Association (JIFFA) shares the subject line information as under.

https://www.jiffa.or.jp/en/news/entry-6293.html

 

関税局―貿易統計1月上中旬分 2月7日

 

Trade statistics for first 20 days in January 2020

https://www.customs.go.jp/toukei/latest/index_e.htm

 

厚労省―勤労統計2019年12月分 2月7日

 

MHWL releases Labor Market (payment) Statistics for December 2019

 

Ministry of Health Welfare and Labor (MHWL)releases the statistics as under, saying that the payment for full time workers increased by 0.4 % and for part time workers it increased by 0.5%, and part time worker’s hourly wage rose 2.9% when they are compared with the same month in2018.

https://www.mhlw.go.jp/toukei/itiran/roudou/monthly/r01/0112p/dl/pdf0112p.pdf

 

関税局―関税率表解説及び国際分類例規の改定と追加 2月6日 Customs and Tariff Bureau (CTB) announces updated HS Classification rules CTB announces as under that classification rules, E-notes and Opinions, are revised and they are going to be effective from March 1.

https://www.customs.go.jp/kaisei/tsutatsu/2020tsutatsu/2020tsutatsu0163/index.htm

These revisions and additions are reflection of WCO HS Classification Committee’s discussions and decisions. WCO usually releases the results of the Committee’s meeting results in English and French but it has not yet shared the documents. Or maybe I have not been able to spot the news in the WCO’s homepage by now.

 

経産省―東京及び横浜通商事務所に業務集約(英語版) 2月6日

 

METI’s English announcement

Important Notice for Trade License Applicants in Kanto Area

https://www.meti.go.jp/english/press/2020/0203_002.html

 

経産省―東京及び横浜通商事務所に業務集約 2月5日

 

METI closes some of its out offices around Tokyo.

 

METI announces as under that it intends to concentrate the trade certification and trade related matters to its Tokyo and Yokohama offices.

 

https://www.meti.go.jp/press/2019/02/20200203006/20200203006.html

 

動物検疫―デンマークからの家きん輸入停止 2月5日 Poultry import ban (a province in Hungary) Animal Quarantine Office announces that poultry from Denmark is banned because bird flu has been identified in the region. https://www.maff.go.jp/j/press/syouan/douei/200131.html

 

植物防疫―英国及び米国の植物防疫体制情報を更新 2月5日

 

Plant Protection shares information on the U.K’s. and the U.S.A’s Plant Protection measures

 

Plant Protection Office has been collection the information on other countries’ plant protection enforcement and updated the U.K’s. and the U.S.A’s as under.

 

The U.K as of Jan.31 2020

https://www.maff.go.jp/pps/j/search/ekuni/eu/england/index.html

 

The U.S.A as of Feb.3 2020

https://www.maff.go.jp/pps/j/search/ekuni/na/USA/index.html