The Environmental Protection Agency has issued a proposed rule to amend the 2009 Final Mandatory Greenhouse Gas Reporting rule to correct certain technical and editorial errors, including additional information to better or more fully understand compliance obligations, corrections to data reporting elements, etc. Comments are due by July 30, 2010.
The Department of Justice has issued a press release announcing that AU Optronics Corporation, the largest Taiwanese thin-film transistor-liquid crystal display panels (TFT-LCD) producer and seller, its Houston-based American subsidiary, and certain executives have been indicted for participating in a LCD price-fixing conspiracy.
The Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) has issued a notice that lists those applying for ocean transportation intermediary licenses as a non-vessel-operating common carrier (NVOCC), ocean freight forwarder (FF) or NVOCC/FF OTI, as follows:
On June 9, 2010, the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) designated two individuals and two entities linked to the international drug trafficking organization La Familia Michoacana as Specially Designated Narcotics Traffickers (SDNTs).
The Consumer Product Safety Commission has published notice of the following voluntary recalls:
On June 10, 2010, the Commerce Department's Census and Economic Analysis Bureaus released its April 2010 U.S. International Trade in Goods and Services report, which showed that U.S. exports in April 2010 decreased by 0.7 percent to $148.8 billion from their March 2010 level. Imports in April decreased 0.4 percent over March to $189.1 billion.
Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Manufacturing and Services Lamb-Hale attended the IPC -- Association Connecting Electronics Industries executive market and technology conference, stating that the Obama Administration has committed to a next-generation manufacturing agenda by partnering with the private sector to spur innovation.
The Commerce Department states that senior Commerce officials and more than 400 companies from the U.S, Haiti and the Dominican Republic attended the “Building a New Haiti: Commerce, Business, Investment” conference in Montrouis on June 10, 2010 -- the first meeting to bring companies from all three countries together since the January 12 earthquake.
The Consumer Product Safety Commission has announced a closed meeting on June 16, 2010, in which the staff will brief the Commission on various compliance matters.