USA

The State Department is imposing, effective 16 September, certain sanctions on a mainland Chinese entity (Zhuhai Zhenrong Company Limited) and an executive of that entity for knowingly engaging on or after 5 November 2018 in a significant transaction for the purchase, acquisition, sale, transport or marketing of petroleum or petroleum products from Iran. More

The Consumer Product Safety Commission is seeking input from interested parties by 18 October as part of a rulemaking process aimed at preventing injuries and deaths associated with carbon monoxide (CO) leakage from residential gas furnaces and boilers. More

The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative is requesting written submissions by 30 September (rebuttal comments are due by 15 October) to aid in the preparation of its 2019 Notorious Markets List. Notorious markets are Internet and physical markets based outside the United States that reportedly engage in or facilitate substantial copyright piracy and trademark counterfeiting. 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