The Senate Finance Committee has announced that it will be holding a hearing on May 13, 2010 regarding the nomination of Alan Bersin to be Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
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The European Chemicals Agency is seeking information on the uses and releases of two substances of very high concern - 2,4-dinitrotoluene and lead chromate - which are currently on the European Union’s REACHCandidate List.1
The European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) has posted a manual on how to determine what will be published on its website from a company's chemical substance registration dossier, required by the European Union’s REACH1 program.
"Daily Update on Capitol Hill Trade Actions" is a daily International Trade Today compilation of the most relevant legislation, hearings, and actions by Congress involving international trade. The following are brief summaries of recent Capitol Hill actions:
The International Trade Administration frequently issues notices on antidumping and countervailing duty orders, investigations, etc. which Broker Power considers to be "minor” in importance as they concern actions that occur after an order is issued, neither announce nor cause any changes to an order’s duty rates, scope, affected firms, or effective period, etc.
Consumer Product Safety Commission sources have confirmed that senior management from CPSC and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) are in the final stages of negotiations concerning detentions, and CPSC now expects to begin issuing its own detention notices as early as June 2010.
The U.S.-China Business Council has submitted comments on China’s April 2010 draft notice on the launch of the National Indigenous Innovation Work. The Council states that China’s current policies, which appear to use a mix of product catalogs, unique standard requirements, government procurement preferences, and tax incentives that include requirements for domestic intellectual property ownership, are inconsistent with international best practices and may prove counterproductive to China’s goals. (Comments, dated 05/10/10, available at http://www.uschina.org/public/documents/2010/05/uscbc_most_circular_comments.pdf)
The following are the trade-related hearings scheduled for May 10-15, 2010:
"Daily Update on Capitol Hill Trade Actions" is a daily International Trade Today compilation of the most relevant legislation, hearings, and actions by Congress involving international trade. The following are brief summaries of recent Capitol Hill actions: