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On May 31, 2013, the United States Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) issued a wide-ranging proposed rulemaking significantly affecting the licensing, financial responsibility and duties of Ocean Transportation Intermediaries (OTIs).
There are approximately 5,700 OTIs, including domestic and foreign Non-Vessel Operating Common Carriers (NVOCCs) and ocean freight forwarders, operating in United States trades. All will be affected by the proposed changes. Although the proposed new rules are “intended to adapt to changing industry conditions, improve regulatory effectiveness, improve transparency, streamline processes and reduce regulatory burdens,” they impose significant new conditions and alter the regulatory environment and risks for OTIs .
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Fusao Ohori, right, a Japanese union leader visiting from Tokyo, joined union dockworkers Friday outside the United Grain Corp. terminal at the Port of Vancouver. Brianna Loper photo/The Columbian
Excerpts from the Columbian:
Fusao Ohori, a representative of the All-Japan Seamen’s Union, which represents the crews of ships at sea, flew from Tokyo this week to walk picket lines with locked-out longshore workers in Vancouver and Portland.
Along with Ohori’s visit, the All-Japan Seamen’s Union contributed 1 million yen to the ILWU. That translates to an estimated $10,400. When Ohori announced the amount Friday, outside the port gate, about 18 union dockworkers who’d gathered there clapped their approval.
Longshore workers from Kalama, Longview and Seattle were among the 18 union members who picketed in Vancouver, according to Jennifer Sargent, a spokeswoman for the ILWU.
Ohori visited two picket lines: one at the Port of Vancouver, where United Grain — owned by Tokyo-based Mitsui & Co. — operates a facility, and another at the Port of Portland, where Columbia Grain Inc. — owned by Japan’s Marubeni Corp. — runs a grain elevator.
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Peruvian Minister of Foreign Trade and Tourism José Silva Martinot – asked about intellectual property (IP) provisions proposed by the United States in the Trans Pacific Partnership negotiations – said on television that Peru will not accept terms that exceed those in its existing bilateral trade agreement with the U.S. The minister said “We as Peru have been clear and we will not go one millimeter beyond what has already negotiated.”
Peruvian officials have indicated their reluctance to exceed US-Peru FTA provisions on IP in the past, but recently they have come under increasing pressure not to give in to U.S. demands.
Civil society mobilized around the recent TPP negotiating round in Lima Peru. Groups held demonstrations outside the negotiations and created an online hub www.nonegociable.pe to mobilize further opposition. La Republica reports that 50 civil society groups signed a statement asking the President not to accept new IP standards in the TPP.
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