The Federal Maritime Commission will look at multiple factors, including cargo accessibility and the transparency of involved terminology, when it considers whether detention or demurrage practices are reasonable, the agency said in a notice it posted ahead of publication in the Federal Register. The proposed interpretive rule is meant to help address issues with detention and demurrage charges and follows a multiyear effort on that front (see 1606130005). Comments are due Oct. 17, the FMC said in a news release.
Low expectations for the 11 series of iPhones, sans 5G (see report, Sept. 11), carried over to carrier and retailer advertising Wednesday. Apple launched new phones, smartwatches, an iPad and $5 monthly game and video services Tuesday. Preorders begin Friday for the three new iPhones, with Sept. 20 availability.
Low expectations for the 11 series of iPhones, sans 5G (see report, Sept. 11), carried over to carrier and retailer advertising Wednesday. Apple launched new phones, smartwatches, an iPad and $5 monthly game and video services Tuesday. Preorders begin Friday for the three new iPhones, with Sept. 20 availability.
Rep. Peter DeFazio, D-Ore., is soliciting co-sponsors for a bill called Act for the Amazon Act, which would ban imports of Brazilian beef, soybeans, leather, timber, sugar, corn, pulp and paper and petroleum products, because he says they contribute to deforestation in the Amazon. The bill already has seven Democratic co-sponsors, and has not yet been introduced. DeFazio said the bill, if it became law, would also end some military and other aid to Brazil, and would prohibit the administration from negotiating a free trade agreement with Brazil unless Brazil acts to combat deforestation and intentional fires in the Amazon to clear land for agriculture.
The FCC Public Safety Bureau OK'd a San Diego County ask for waiver in paperwork needed to let it add seven base stations to its trunked 800 MHz private land mobile radio system for improved public safety communications. In an order in Friday's Daily Digest, the bureau said waiver was needed of a certification from the operator of a co-channel station that would be relatively near the base stations, but that operator wasn't able to provide certification due to its channel not being fully operational, as rules state.
The International Chamber of Commerce is expected to revise its incoterms to “clearly and accurately reflect current trade practices” when it releases its new set of the international commercial terms in September, according to an Aug. 29 post from Export Solutions.
Broaden the definition of healthcare providers, allow funding for remote monitoring and medical body area network devices (MBAN), and make the program available in a wide geographic area. Those are among recommendations for the FCC pilot USF pilot to support connected care for the poor and veterans. Comments posted through Friday docket 18-213 for the three-year, $100 million program (see 1907100073).
Broaden the definition of healthcare providers, allow funding for remote monitoring and medical body area network devices (MBAN), and make the program available in a wide geographic area. Those are among recommendations for the FCC pilot USF pilot to support connected care for the poor and veterans. Comments posted through Friday docket 18-213 for the three-year, $100 million program (see 1907100073).
The FCC has considerable history requiring reimbursement of increased operating costs an incumbent spectrum user faces after being moved to another band or another medium, NPR said in a docket 18-122 posting Wednesday. The 1992 emerging technologies proceeding on relocating fixed microwave services from the 2160-2165 MHz band required emerging tech service providers to guarantee relocation cost payments to incumbents, including costs that relocated fixed microwave licensees might incur from operating in a different band or migrating to another media, NPR said. In the 800 MHz band reorganization, the FCC considered operating costs as reimbursable relocation costs, it said. It's "beyond reasonable dispute" that C-band receive-only earth stations having to relocate to accommodate 5G use should be held harmless even for increased operational costs, NPR said. GCI, in meetings with aides to Chairman Ajit Pai and Commissioners Mike O'Rielly and Jessica Rosenworcel, urged that Alaska be excluded from future reallocation of the C band given the state's weather and topography and that federal land regulations make it particularly reliant on the band. CGI urged protections including requiring commitments from satellite operators and MVPD programmers to maintain the status quo of Alaskan C-band operations, maintaining full-band full-arc coordination policy, and reimbursing Alaska earth station operators for any impacts to their operations stemming from C-band service relocation even if that's exclusively in the lower 48 states.
A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the Commerce Department posted to CBP's website Aug. 29 along with the case number(s) and CBP message number, is provided below. The messages are available by searching for the listed CBP message number at CBP's ADD CVD Search page: