The Consumer Product Safety Commission has announced a closed meeting on May 4, 2011, in which the staff will brief the Commission on various compliance matters.

On April 20, 2011, the European Parliament reached a compromise deal with the European Council on a possible EU regulation on the labeling of textiles that contain fur or leather products. However, agreement could not be reached on textile origin labeling changes. Instead, the parties agreed to study the feasibility of giving consumers accurate origin information and full traceability as well as to study allergic reactions and further EU labeling harmonization.

According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the low-duty tariff preference level (1) for Mexico has filled.

The Consumer Product Safety Commission has updated its list of meetings between CPSC and its stakeholders that are open to the public, unless otherwise stated:

The Consumer Product Safety Commission has provided a summary of its investigation of a few homes which were not built with drywall from China (and some of which may be domestic) where consumers have reported health and corrosion problems. Four of the eleven homes investigated had a corrosive indoor environment, but the test results were not consistent with previous findings related to the identification of the problem Chinese drywall. CPSC says that conclusions regarding the potential of domestic drywall to be problematic cannot be confirmed at this time without further extensive investigation and detailed documentation of the origin of the drywall in these homes.

The Consumer Product Safety Commission is to vote by May 2, 2011 on a draft final rule that would make limited, technical amendments to the Commission’s regulations at 16 CFR Part 1512, Requirements for Bicycles. The amendments would make minor changes to the existing regulations to reflect new technologies, designs, and features in bicycles by clarifying that certain provisions or testing requirements do not apply to specific bicycles or bicycle parts. The amendments also clarify several ambiguous and confusing provisions, correct typographical errors, etc.

The Consumer Product Safety Commission published notice of the following voluntary recalls on April 21, 2011:

According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection sources, the low-duty preference level (1) for Mexico is currently "on hold."

The Office of Textiles and Apparel announces the "Sourcing in the Americas Summit and Pavilion" on August 21-24, 2011 in Las Vegas, NV. This event will feature a Department of Commerce Pavilion with exhibitors representing the entire Americas supply chain as well as a Summit on August 21 and 22. The Summit will feature a series of seminars with key U.S. government decision makers and top executives of textile, apparel and footwear suppliers and importers discussing sourcing in the Americas. The deadline to exhibit is May 19, 2011.

On March 1, 2011, the Environmental Protection Agency and a group of leading apparel and footwear brands, retailers, manufacturers, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and academic experts launched the Sustainable Apparel Coalition, which aims to create a common industry-wide tool to measure the environmental and social performance of apparel products and the supply chains that produce them.