China Seeks Specific Identities in EPA Rules Restricting New Uses of Chemicals

China objects to two final rules and one proposed regulation the Environmental Protection Agency has issued to restrict new uses of chemicals.

The EPA rules should give Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) numbers or other information so Chinese companies would know whether their products or chemicals are covered by the rules, China said in one of several objections raised.

China submitted comments on three EPA significant new use rules (SNURs) to the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology. The institute is the designated U.S. agency that receives Technical Barriers to Trade inquiries submitted under procedures established by the World Trade ...