The Consumer Product Safety Commission will require that all gas cans and other fuel containers comply with three voluntary industry standards by July. A final rule published by the commission adopts the three standards—ASTM F3326-21, ANSI/CAN/UL/ULC30:2022 and ASTM F3429/F3429M-20—as mandatory, including a requirement that all gas cans have flame mitigation devices.…
STURDY requires the CPSC to promulgate a rule to implement a mandatory standard for dressers and other clothing storage units or adopt an existing voluntary standard that meets the performance requirements set forth in STURDY. ASTM International recently published ASTM F2057-23, the Standard Safety Specification for Clothing Storage Units. The Commission is currently evaluating STURDY as well as …
The Small Business Ombudsmen Team has announced the publication of the CPSC Online Sellers’ Safety Guide. This guide offers e-commerce business owners various resources and information, including helpful FAQs, to help them make, import, or sell safe and compliant consumer products. The newly published guide and associated pages can be found here:
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The Consumer Product Safety Commission has issued a direct final rule updating the current mandatory safety standards (16 CFR part 1220) for non-full-size baby cribs to incorporate by reference ASTM’s 2022 version of the voluntary standard (ASTM F406-22), with modifications that maintain the exclusion of requirements that apply solely to play yards. The updated standards will apply …
CBP recently released a new CTPAT Alert containing information on what Customs Trade Partnership Against Terrorism (CTPAT) members will need to do in order to comply with new forced labor requirements in the trusted trader program that are already in effect.
Since January 1, 2023, the CTPAT criteria have mandated that members have a documented social compliance program in …
While at the Forced Labor Technical Expo, CBP released their dashboard which provides statistics on UFLPA detentions. The interactive dashboard details the 1704 shipments that have been detained by CBP in the FYTD (fiscal year to date) 2023. Of the detained shipments, 229 were denied with 501 released and the balance still pending as of publication.
While detentions were …
On March 14th and 15th, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) hosted their first technical expo on Forced Labor. On-site and virtual attendance, estimated at over 10 000 individuals daily, were introduced to all levels of government fighting forced labor. In addition, vendors presented their supply chain tracing solutions and DNA mapping capabilities.
Keynote speakers included Dr. Laura Murphy, …
Temporary Enforcement Discretion for Pending Unique Facility Identifiers (UFI) No Longer Available (CSMS # 55593773).
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is announcing the schedule of the next phase of Lacey Act declaration implementation. Phase VII will include a wide variety of materials and plant products, such as furniture, cork, and some essential oils that have not yet required a declaration.
USDA APHIS | USDA Announces Phase VII …
On March 21, 2023, the U.S. Department of Commerce announced its affirmative final determinations in the antidumping duty (AD) investigations of certain preserved mushrooms from the Netherlands, Poland, and Spain.