The following are short summaries of recent CBP NY rulings issued by the agency's National Commodity Specialist Division in New York:
The State Department's Directorate of Defense Trade Controls recently posted a name change notice for ST Engineering Land Systems Ltd., KIS Division, a legal entity of Singapore Technologies Engineering Ltd. It also is waiving the requirement for amendments to change approved license authorizations because of the “volume” of authorizations requiring amendments to reflect the change, DDTC said. ST Engineering Land Systems Ltd. will become ST Engineering Land MRO & Services Pte. Ltd., effective Jan. 1, 2022.
The Coast Guard believes 160.900 MHz, used by railroads, can be safely shared by maritime devices that mark fishing equipment, NTIA said in a letter posted Friday in FCC docket 21-230. The Association of American Railroads had raised concerns (see 2109080043). “With adequate care, it is possible for low power [automatic identification system] devices to operate on 160.9 MHz without causing harmful interference to railroad systems,” the Coast Guard said. “NTIA also understands that the land mobile radios the railroads operate generally have authorization to utilize multiple channels such that, if their mobile operations experience harmful interference on a particular channel, they should be able to continue to communicate on other channels,” the NTIA said.
Turkish steel exporter Kaptan Demir Celik Endustrisi ve Ticaret kicked off litigation at the Court of International Trade in an Oct. 19 complaint over a countervailing duty review on steel concrete reinforcing bar from Turkey covering entries in 2018, arguing against the Commerce Department's finding that ship building company Nur Gemicilik ve Tic is a cross-owned input supplier of Kaptan (Kaptan Demir Celik Endustrisi ve Ticaret A.S. v. United States, CIT #21-00565).
The FCC Wireless Bureau cleared a waiver for Nebraska Indian Community College to use 2.5 GHz for broadband in an area that’s only partially tribal land. NICC already received a license covering the Santee reservation in Nebraska. NICC sought a second license for the Omaha reservation to the entire Bancroft-Rosalie School District, which includes some nontribal lands, the bureau said Thursday. “Under the unique circumstances presented here, we find that strictly applying the Tribal lands definition in this instance would be contrary to the public interest,” the bureau said: “We also note that no petitions to deny or oppositions were received.”
Some FCC precision agriculture task force working groups have started submitting their final reports for the consolidated report to the commission, members said during a virtual meeting Thursday. The mapping and analyzing connectivity WG report will include a $4 million cost estimate it received to do a more granular survey, said Chair Michael Adelaine of South Dakota State University. The examining current and future connectivity demand WG submitted its report to be consolidated into the final report, said Chair Dan Leibfried of John Deere. "It does look we have a little bit of conflict" in the draft consolidated report about recommendations on higher speeds, Leibfried said. Task force Chair Teddy Bekele of Land O’Lakes agreed and asked the subpanel to identify what parts of the consolidated report will need to be updated. The encouraging adoption of precision ag WG finished its report, said Chair Mike McCormick of the Mississippi Farm Bureau Federation: "We're really happy with where we are." Accelerating broadband deployment WG Vice Chair Heather Hampton-Knodle of American Agri-Women said its report had no changes.
The following are short summaries of recent CBP NY rulings issued by the agency's National Commodity Specialist Division in New York:
A bill that would add more data elements a year after passage to the Seafood Import Monitoring Program passed out of the Natural Resources Committee by voice vote Oct. 13. The bill's authors recently received a letter from the National Customs Brokers & Forwarders Association of America saying that the bill would be "crushing to the import process." The letter, sent Oct. 8, also said, "No one wants illegal or fraudulent seafood, or seafood produced by forced labor, to enter the United States. Certainly, our industry is strongly committed to safe and legally compliant supply chains. Compliance is what we do. The challenge is: how best to ensure integrity in seafood supply chains. SIMP already collects more data at entry than just about any other agency for 1,100 species of seafood."
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The following are short summaries of recent CBP NY rulings issued by the agency's National Commodity Specialist Division in New York: