The Consumer Product Safety Commission is proposing a new safety standard for button cell and coin batteries, including consumer products that are meant to contain them. Under the new standard, the button cell and coin batteries, as well as consumer products that are sold with them and those that are not but are designed to use them, must comply with new labeling and performance requirements. Comments on the proposed rule are due March 13.
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CBP is now detaining polyvinyl chloride products for forced labor under the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act, customs lawyer Ted Murphy said in a client alert Feb. 7. That’s in addition to a newfound focus on aluminum (see 2301120046), as well as the high priority sectors listed in the UFLPA statute: cotton, tomatoes and polysilicon, Murphy said.
CBP will give customs brokers nearly two more months to comply with a new requirement to submit lists of all current employees to CBP via the ACE Portal, the agency said in a CSMS message. Brokers will now have until April 14 to comply with the requirement from the recent customs broker modernization final rule (see 2210170071). The deadline had previously been Feb. 17 (see 2212190056).
FDA has issued its Enforcement Report for Feb. 1, listing the status of recalls and field corrections for food, cosmetics, tobacco products, drugs, biologics and devices. The report covers both domestic and foreign firms.
CBP is lifting its forced labor finding on Malaysian palm oil producer Sime Darby Plantation Berhad, after finding that, ”based upon additional information" Sime Darby provided to CBP that "establishes by satisfactory evidence that the subject palm oil and derivative products are no longer mined, produced, or manufactured in any part with forced labor,” the agency said in a notice released Feb. 2.
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CBP is working on a new benefit for the Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism program that would allow CTPAT members to report they’ve found forced labor in their supply chain without triggering CBP penalties or additional detentions, CBP’s Manny Garza said during a webinar hosted by the agency on Jan. 27.
Importers of non-textile goods that are of Chinese origin but sourced from a seller in another country may not have to transmit the Chinese postal code as will be required on March 18 (see 2212210041) under a new ACE Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act “Region Alert,” according to a CBP official speaking during a webinar hosted by the agency Jan. 26.
CBP has now received two “exception requests” seeking to rebut the presumption that goods produced in Xinjiang were produced with forced labor, said CBP’s Therese Randazzo, special adviser in the agency’s Forced Labor Division, during a webinar hosted by CBP on Jan. 26.