The Consumer Product Safety Commission has canceled its open Commission meeting on May 12, 2010 in which it was scheduled to vote on a final rule for infant bath seats. (CPSC calendar available at http://www.cpsc.gov/calendar.html)
The Consumer Product Safety Commission has posted three approved proposed rules which are pending publication in the Federal Register: the proposed “15 Month rule”1 on testing and labeling pertaining to product certification, the related proposed rule on component part testing, and the proposed rule on a publicly available consumer product safety information database.
The Directorate of Defense Trade Controls has released a new version of D-Trade2 (Version 2.3.1) as of May 8, 2010, and has issued a release notes document and notice recommending an upgrade for viewing DSP forms.
On May 7, 2010, the Environmental Protection Agency and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration issued a final rule to establish greenhouse gas emission standards and corporate average fuel economy standards.1
The Consumer Product Safety Commission has published notice of the following voluntary recalls:
The National Institute of Standards and Technology posts drafts and changes to foreign technical regulations for manufactured products which may be considered technical barriers to trade and are therefore required to be reported to the World Trade Organization, which distributes the information to WTO Member countries.
The Foreign Agriculture Service issued the following GAIN reports:
The State Department has designated the following individuals as Specially Designated Global Terrorists pursuant to Section 1(b) of Executive Order 13224: (1) Eric Breininger; (2) Nayif Bin-Muhammad al-Qahtani; and (3) Qasim al-Rimi.
The Food and Drug Administration has posted revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of: