Mexico’s Diario Oficial announced on April 21, 2010, that its Ministry of Economy has initiated an antidumping duty investigation on imports of denim fabric that originate in China.
The Fraser Institute has published a report, which discusses the poor state of the Canadian-U.S. relationship and makes recommendations for improvement.
The European Commission has issued a question and answer document on a 2009 European Union "Toy Joint Action" in which 13 countries1 conducted market surveillance to assess toy safety and gain and share enforcement experiences.
The Clean Trucks Center has issued a news release announcing that the temporary extensions granted by the California Air Resources Board to independent owner operators or licensed motor carriers who were waiting for either new trucks or retrofit equipment that had been ordered prior to December 31, 2009 will expire on April 30, 2010.
The following is an update on the European Commission’s recent announcement that effective May 1, 2010, it would expand the list of U.S. products subject to an additional 15% import duty due to U.S. payout of benefits under the Continued Dumping and Subsidy Offset Act or Byrd Amendment.1
The U.S.-China Business Council has issued a press release announcing that China has revised its draft rules for a National Indigenous Innovation Product Accreditation program. The revisions address certain foreign company concerns about the program.
On April 13, 2010, the National Association of Manufacturers issued its recommendations for fundamental reform of the U.S. export control system called the “Manufacturers Blueprint for a 21st Century Export Control Regime.”
The British House of Commons Science and Technology Committee has issued its official report on allegations regarding potentially non-verified and non-disclosed climate change data relating to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC’s) final report on the science of climate change and it’s relationship to human activity.