NORTH AMERICA

The U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security has issued a final rule extending for an additional 90 days, from 20 August through 18 November, the temporary general licence authorising specific, limited engagement in transactions involving the export, re-export and transfer of items subject to the Export Administration Regulations to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. and its non-U.S. affiliates. More

BIS is seeking comments by 13 September on whether the legitimate commercial activities and interests of chemical, biotechnology and pharmaceutical firms in the United States would be harmed by the proposed addition of five chemical families to Schedule 1 in the Chemical Weapons Convention. More

Mexico is seeking input from interested parties by 12 October on a proposal (PROY-NOM-228-SCFI-2018) to establish new safety and other requirements for domestically-produced and imported re-treaded tyres, of radial or diagonal construction, for use in automobiles, vans, light lorries, buses and lorries. More

The U.S. Department of Commerce has self-initiated new inquiries to determine whether imports of corrosion-resistant steel products (CORE) completed in Costa Rica, Guatemala, Malaysia, South Africa and the United Arab Emirates using mainland Chinese-origin substrate are circumventing the antidumping and countervailing duty orders on CORE from mainland China. More