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Topics: Brazil Allows AD Duty Order on Aluminium Printing Plate from Hong Kong to Expire; Argentina Preliminarily Finds Dumping on Tricycles; Brazil Issues Preliminary Affirmative Determination in AD Probe of Pencils; Canada Recommends Exclusion of Shaped Wire from Safeguard Duties; Argentina Issues Results of Anti-Circumvention Probe of Tableware. More

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo on 7 February signed legislation into law that will require manufacturers of children’s products to disclose chemicals of special concern to children and eliminate various hazardous chemicals from their products. More

Effective 28 June, California’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment has added pchloro-α,α,α-trifluorotoluene (para-Chlorobenzotrifluoride, PCBTF), a colourless liquid used as an ink solvent in the printing industry, to the list of chemicals known to the state to cause cancer for purposes of Proposition 65. More

Argentinean authorities have a long-standing practice of setting reference/criterion values for a broad range of imported merchandise, which are purportedly aimed at preventing the under-invoicing of imports. More