Tactical Holdings, a major supplier of military footwear, has filed a Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Petition in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in the District of Delaware, and is seeking a quick sale of its businesses. The company’s footwear ...
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ANGUS Chemical Company has announced that AMP, a multifunctional specialty chemical that's widely used in latex paint formulations, is no longer classified as a volatile organic compound (VOC) under a final rule by the U.S. Environmental ...
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The US Department of Commerce (DOC) announced Friday its affirmative final determinations in the antidumping duty (AD) investigations of imports of OCTG from India, Korea, the Philippines, Saudi Arabia, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, Ukraine, ...
Tags: OCTG, Affirmative, Metallurgy, Mineral
Whole Foods Market strongly supports Oregon's Measure 92, requiring mandatory labeling of raw and packaged foods containing Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) by January 1, 2016. More than 155,000 Oregonians signed a petition to put ...
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The Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA), together with three other US food industry groups, has filed a lawsuit challenging Vermont’s mandatory GMO food labeling law. The new law, which would take effect from 1 July 2016, ...
Tags: US Industry Groups, Food Labeling
Beer giants Anheuser-Busch and MillerCoors have posted the ingredients online for some of its products, following a petition from a food blogger. The move is in line with food blogger Vani Hari's petition on FoodBabe.com to make major ...
Tags: Beer Ingredients, Anheuser-Busch
The International Trade Commission (ITC) is investigating antidumping and countervailing duty claims made against companies exporting consumer tires from China to the United States. The ITC must reach a preliminary determination on the ...
Tags: Auto Parts, Accessories
The FDA has approved the sweetener advantame for use in the US The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced the new food additive, advantame, is safe for use as a general-purpose sweetener and flavour enhancer in food, ...
Tags: High-Intensity Sweetener, FDA
Advantame, a new high intensity sweetener, has received approval from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for general use in foods and beverages. The new sweetener, whose safety is supported by 37 scientific studies, has ...
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There are signs that hungry workers are trickling slowly back to work at two of South Africa's largest platinum mines on the eve of what threatens to be a tricky court case for the employers. The industry has lost more than $1.8 billion ...
The Alliance for American Manufacturing is organizing a rally Monday at US Steel’s Lorain, Ohio tubular plant as part of a national effort to convince the US Commerce Department (DOC) to impose duties on dumped steel imports, ...
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Medtronic's CoreValve transcatheter aortic valve replacement device. (Courtesy Medtronic) Almost before the judge's signature was dry on Friday's federal district court preliminary injunction in favor of Edwards Lifesciences Corp. ...
An environmental protection group and labor rights group are trying to pressure Apple into abandoning two hazardous chemicals used to make iPhones. Green America and China Labor Watch launched their campaign Wednesday to protect the ...
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Several US ferrosilicon market participants believe the preliminary determination giving a 0% margin on imports of Russian ferrosilicon and a 27.27% margin for imports of Venezuelan material, announced Wednesday, could have a near-term ...
Tags: Ferrosilicon, Antidumping Finding
The Directorate General of Safeguards, Customs and Central Excise, Government of India, has initiated safeguard investigation concerning imports of bare elastomeric filament yarn, commonly known as spandex, into India. In its notice, ...
Tags: Spandex Imports, Textile