The Commerce Department issued an antidumping duty order on truck and bus tires from Thailand (A-549-848). The order sets permanent antidumping duties, which will remain in place unless revoked by Commerce in a sunset or changed circumstances review. Commerce now will begin conducting annual administrative reviews, if requested, to determine final assessments of AD on importers and make changes to cash deposit rates.
EPA is initiating the prioritization process for five chemical substances as candidates for designation as High-Priority Substances for risk evaluation, according to a notice. The substances are 4-tert-Octylphenol, benzene, ethylbenzene, naphthalene and styrene.
An EPA final rule that amends the new chemicals procedural regulations under the Toxic Substances Control Act takes effect Jan. 17. The changes include amendments increasing the quality of information submitted in new chemicals notices, and are expected to improve EPA's processes for effective and timely individual risk assessments as well as for new chemicals reviews, the agency said in a Federal Register notice.
The EPA will ban the import and manufacture of the chemical solvent trichloroethylene (TCE), according to a Federal Register notice. This final rule is effective Jan. 16.
An EPA final rule that becomes effective Jan. 17 will restrict and eventually ban the use of perchloroethylene (PCE), a chemical solvent often used in dry cleaning and degreasing, due to the "unreasonable risk of injury to health" when using the substance, it said in a Federal Register notice.
On Dec. 16, the FDA posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of:
The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service is restricting imports of animal commodities originating from or transiting through El Salvador, after detecting New World screwworm in cattle in the country, USDA announced in a news release Dec. 17.
The Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau is issuing a final rule that establishes "American single malt whiskey" as meeting a standard of identity for the purpose of labeling distilled spirits produced in the U.S., the Treasury Department said a Federal Register notice.
Correction: Patrick Gill of Sandler Travis served as the attorney for Target during the oral argument session in the Target Corp. v. U.S. case (see 2412060063).
The following lawsuits were filed at the Court of International Trade during the week of Dec. 9-15: