This is a reminder that the European Union deadlines to register certain chemical substances under the EU REACH¹ regulation and to notify the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) of the classification and labeling of chemical substances placed on the EU market pursuant to the Classification, Labeling and Packaging (CLP) regulation are approaching.

Mexico's Diario Oficial of November 4, 2010 lists notices from the Secretary of the Economy as follows:

In the November 4, 2010 edition of the Official Journal of the European Union, the following trade-related notices were posted:

China's Ministry of Commerce spokesman Yao Jian has stated that China will reduce its rare earth export quotas next year, but not by a very large margin .Yao said that "to protect the environment and natural resources, China will stick to the quota system to manage rare earth exports next year, and quotas will also decline." Though giving no clear extent of the decline, Yao's remarks echoed the comments of Wang Jian, a vice minister of commerce.

The Government of Canada issued the following releases on November 4, 2010:

Brazil's Ministry of Development, Industry and Commerce reports that for the first time since January 2010, Brazil's exports increased more than its imports. For the month of October 2010, exports increased by 37.1%, and imports increased by 35.9%.

On November 4, 2010, the European Commission proposed to ban the use of phosphates and to limit the content of other phosphorous containing compounds in laundry detergents.

Mexico's Diario Oficial of November 3, 2010 lists notices from the Secretary of the Economy as follows:

The World Trade Organization reports that at a workshop on “recent analyses of the Doha Round,” economists stated that a Doha Round package on market access in all goods, and on agricultural subsidies, could add $121 billion to $202 billion to the world economy, and a “trade facilitation” deal could cut trade costs by more than the “impact of geographical distance” between countries, among other things.

China's GOV.cn reports that China's innovation capacity remains weak despite the 15 billion yuan in central government funds and 58 billion yuan in non-governmental funds spent in 2009 on science and technology research and development.