Policy & Regulation

In ECHEMI Coating Forum & Procurement Conference, ECHEMI and First Chemical Co., Ltd. reached strategic cooperation agreement.

• Coating Forum
• First Chemical
• Echemi

“Textile industry is in a difficult situation due to the prevalent cotton situation and warrants the government to act swiftly and remov...

• Withdraw
• Cotton
• Import

Heeding to the long pending demand of stakeholders in the textile industry, the Ministry of Finance, Government of India on Friday finally decided to increase the import and custom duties on man-made, synthetic and cotton fabrics and yarn of various...

• Import
• Duty
• Fabrics

The Confederation of Indian Textile Industry has hailed the revision of customs duty on import of textiles goods. Countervailing duty and special additional duty applicable on imports have been abolished making imports cheaper by about 15 per cent.

• CITI
• Duty
• Import
• Textile

Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf, the main opposition party in the National Assembly, is broadening its activities by reaching out to the business community which is battling dwindling exports.

• Textile
• Policy

Food additives are nonnutritive substances which are intentionally added to food, generally in small quantities, to improve its appearance, flavor, texture or storage properties. Food additive provides multiple advantages such as protection against food..

• Food Additives

The EU has ruled out penalties on single-use plastic products, in favour of raising public awareness of the damage consumer plastics are doing to the world’s oceans.

• EU
• Rule
• Plastics

Government agency Health Canada has announced plans to back industry-supported changes on disclosure of ingredient concentrations before fully implementing the updated Workplace Hazardous Materials Information System (WHMIS 2015).

• Canada

New Zealand's EPA has published all ten of its planned Notices dealing with the management of hazardous substances. Overall, they consolidate existing chemical regulations.

• EPA
• Labelling

The Canadian government is consulting on a science approach document for the ecological risk assessment of organic compounds.

• Organic
• Canada
• Compounds

The US EPA has formally announced the failure of negotiated rulemaking on easing inorganic byproduct reporting requirements. It has now asked for public comment on how to proceed.

• EPA

The European Chemical Industry Council (Cefic) has raised concerns over the incompatibility of the IT systems of REACH and Turkey’s new REACH-like Regulation KKDIK.

• KKDIK
• REACH

China's stable and healthy economic growth mainly stems from major progress in economic reform and the government's ability to maintain a stable macroeconomic policy, Chinese Vice Finance Minister Zhu Guangyao said Thursday.

• China
• Economy

Prices of merino wools of all types and all descriptions remained stronger from the outset and pushed upward right through to the close of selling during the sale week 15 ending October 13 at Australian wool auctions.

• Merino
• Wools
• Australian
• Auctions

A legal settlement may bar the US CPSC from changing a proposed regulation banning the phthalate DINP in children's products before voting on it on 18 October, even though questions have been raised about the statistical data underpinning the proposals.

• Phthalates
• CPSC

Response does not take sides on legislative committee's sweeping recommendations.

• Canadian
• Chemical
• Management

The winter is coming, and the LPG demand should have been in an optimistic expectation conventionally. However, in northern China, LPG market players had a dramatic mixed feeling on the upcoming heating season market

• LPG
• Environmental

Players in the European expandable polystyrene (EPS) market have settled early October contracts at a wide variety of prices that range from rollovers to decreases up to €60-90/tonne, depending on the supplier and the region, sources said on Thursday.

• EPS
• Europe

California's Department of Toxic Substances Control is taking comments on what product categories it should evaluate between 2018 and 2020 under the Safer Consumer Products (SCP) programme.

• California

The UN project to create a global list of harmonised GHS classifications is "at a crossroads", according to an internal paper prepared for discussion by the GHS sub-committee in December.

• Harmonised