Zimbabwe licensed 57 foreign and local entities to grow medicinal cannabis and help tap the export market for the product, the country's investment group, Zimbabwe Investment and Development Agency said, Bloomberg reported. ZIDA said production has already kicked off at some of the licensed farms, and the Ministry of Lands is working with ZIDA along with the Medicines Control Authority of Zimbabwe to ensure the quality of the seeds meets regulatory requirements. Zimbabwe legalized medicinal cannabis in 2018 but has failed to ship the cannabis outside the country, Bloomberg said. “We have licensed 57 investors for medicinal cannabis production from Germany, Switzerland, Canada and as well some local players,” the agency said. “Companies have been licensed for cultivation and processing of medicinal cannabis and they own 100% of their investment.”

California Public Utilities Commissioner Martha Guzman Aceves worries about the cable industry creating “false problems” that distract legislators from efforts to update the California Advanced Services Fund (CASF), she said in an interview. With CASF bills expected to be up for floor votes in days, California Cable & Telecommunications Association (CCTA) President Carolyn McIntyre blogged Friday that the legislature should force the commission to prioritize the most unserved areas (see 2109030065) as it considers how to direct broadband funding from a $6 billion bill. Some phone companies agreed with cable concerns, in Friday comments.

FuboTV’s gaming subsidiary landed a management services provider certification from the Arizona Department of Gaming that, subject to additional regulatory approvals, would allow Fubo Gaming to offer mobile event betting within the state through a market access agreement with the Ak-Chin Indian Community, said the virtual MVPD Thursday. The integration of sports wagering and livestreaming on fuboTV will be available through the service’s Watching Now feature.

The Court of International Trade remanded parts and sustained parts of the Commerce Department's final results in the fifth administrative review of the countervailing duty order on crystaline silicon photovoltaic cells from China, in a Sept. 3 order. Judge Jane Restani sustained Commerce's specificity finding for the aluminum extrusions for less than adequate remuneration (LTAR) program, the agency's chosen benchmark for the land value for the LTAR program, and plaintiff and mandatory respondent Canadian Solar's lack of creditworthiness in 2016. Conversely, the judge remanded Commerce's entered value adjustment finding for Canadian Solar and its determination that the respondents benefited from China's Export Buyer's Credit Program.

The following are short summaries of recent CBP “NY” rulings issued by the agency's National Commodity Specialist Division in New York:

The Court of International Trade remanded in part and sustained in part the Commerce Department's final results in the fifth administrative review on the countervailing duty order on crystalline silicon photovoltaic cells from China in a Sept. 3 order. The court sustained Commerce's findings that the specificity finding for the aluminum extrusions for less than adequate remuneration program, the agency's chosen benchmark for the land for LTAR program and plaintiff Canadian Solar's lack of creditworthiness in 2016. Judge Jane Restani remanded Commerce's entered value adjustment, or lack thereof, for Canadian Solar's imports under review and determination that the mandatory respondents benefited from China's Export Buyer's Credit Program.

China's General Administration of Customs will allow imported fresh citrus from South Africa, the agency said in an Aug. 31 announcement, according to an unofficial translation. The fresh fruit imports include oranges, grapefruits and lemons, and the notice describes their quarantine requirements. The orchard, packaging plant cold storage and cold treatment facilities for transporting the citrus must be audited and filed with the Ministry of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development of South Africa and jointly approved by China's General Administration of Customs and South Africa's agriculture ministry, the announcement said. The notice came with a host of other requirements, including that the packaging of the imported citrus should use clean and hygienic, unused packaging materials that meet China's phytosanitary requirements.

New Orleans and nearby Louisiana parishes faced 911 outages Monday after Hurricane Ida hit, local authorities reported. Ida caused “significant impacts” to AT&T's Louisiana network due to “massive power outages and storm damage,” the carrier said Monday. The FCC disaster information reporting system (DIRS) was activated Sunday for affected counties in Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi. Staffers were deployed “to assess the post-landfall impact to communications networks and to assist in efforts to restore service as quickly as possible,” acting Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel said Saturday before landfall: “We know the reality of the danger from this kind of hurricane all too well.”

India's Directorate General of Foreign Trade permitted the import of up to 1.2 million metric tons of crushed and de-oiled genetically modified soya cake until Oct. 31 under ITC Harmonized System codes 23040020 and 23040030 in an Aug. 24 notice. The Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry & Dairying sought permission to import the food item. In response, the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change inspected the soya cake in question and determined that since it does not contain any living modified organism, it can be imported. Shipments will only be accepted at the Nhava Sheva container and Petrapole land border ports, it said.

Maxar Technologies received an order to build SiriusXM's SXM-10 geostationary satellite, following the SXM-9 satellite order announced earlier this month, it said Tuesday. SXM-10 will be built at Maxar's production site in Palo Alto, it said.