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

DOD on Wednesday released a redacted version of the Emerging Mid-Band Radar Spectrum Sharing Feasibility Assessment (EMBRSS), which DOD and NTIA forwarded to Congress in September (see 2309280087). The report examines military systems located in lower 3 GHz spectrum, with an eye on potential sharing but not on clearing as sought by CTIA and carriers.

Lifespan Euro Med Spa, a medical spa and salon in Sugar Land, Texas, engages in unsolicited text messaging promoting its products and services, and sends text messages to U.S. consumers after they have opted out of those solicitations, alleged Florida resident Heather Villanueva's Telephone Consumer Protection Act class action Friday (docket 5:24-cv-00150) in U.S. District Court for Middle Florida in Ocala. In addition, Lifespan engages in telemarketing without the required policies and procedures or proper training of its telemarketing personnel, said the complaint. Lifespan texted and subsequently called Villanueva's cellphone for the first time Jan. 21, and she “explicitly" asked that the company stop contacting her, the class action said. She submitted a second opt-out request in February, but the company “ignored” both, it said. In sum, Lifespan sent the plaintiff more than 10 marketing text messages after her initial opt-out request Jan. 21, said the complaint. More than five of those marketing text messages were sent after Villanueva's second opt-out request, said the complaint. The defendant’s refusal to honor Villanueva's opt-out requests demonstrates that Lifespan hasn’t instituted procedures “for maintaining a list of persons who request not to receive text messages,” it said. “The precise details regarding its lack of requisite policies and procedures” are solely within Lifespan’s “knowledge and control,” it said.

An Indian exporter of granular polytetrafluorethylene, the generic version of Teflon, said March 27 that the “minute” amount of wind energy produced by an affiliate was not “primarily directed” at its own own PTFE manufacturing because electricity from certain sources can't be earmarked for any particular process (Gujarat Fluorochemicals v. U.S., Fed. Cir. # 24-1268).

PHILADELPHIA -- CBP has not issued any withhold release orders for goods unrelated to Uyghur forced labor since the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act passed in late 2021. Eric Choy, the CBP official whose office oversees the ban on goods made with forced labor, said that targeting forced labor abuses outside of China "is something that we're definitely reprioritizing resources [for], to focus in on those efforts." Choy, who is executive director of Trade Remedy Law Enforcement Directorate, said in an interview during the CBP Trade Facilitation and Cargo Security Summit last week that he expects there will be a WRO announced before October.

FCC announces Precision Agriculture Connectivity Task Force working group members, including Mapping and Analyzing Connectivity on Agricultural Lands Working Group Chair Joseph Carey, special government employee, and Vice Chair Brad Robison, CEO-Tallahatchie Valley Electric Power Association and Tallahatchie Valley Internet Services; Examining Current and Future Connectivity Demand for Precision Agriculture Working Group Chair Joy Sterling, CEO-Iron Horse Vineyards, and Vice Chair Steven Strickland, director-partnerships and channels at Ericsson; and Encouraging Adoption of Precision Agriculture and Availability of High-Quality Jobs on Connected Farms Working Group Chair Joshua Seidemann, vice president-policy, NTCA, and Vice Chair Alex Thomasson, professor-Mississippi State University Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering; Accelerating Broadband Deployment on Unserved Agricultural Lands Working Group Chair Heather Hampton-Knodle, vice president/secretary-Knodle Ltd. Farms, and Vice Chair Jarrett Taubman, vice president/deputy chief government affairs and regulatory officer-Viasat.

The State Department approved two potential military sales, to Bahrain and Morocco, worth about $2.5 billion combined, the Defense Security Cooperation Agency said this week.

Members of Congress who spoke during the House Agriculture Committee's March 20 hearing on China highlighted several proposals to restrict the communist country’s increasing acquisition of American agricultural land.

The FCC Wireless Bureau granted waivers of the 2.5 GHz tribal application window for five licenses sought by the Ho-Chunk Nation. “Our decision here is limited to the suitability of these specific trust, Tribally-owned fee, and allotment lands, excluding urban areas, to be licensed under the Tribal Window,” said a Tuesday order: “We make no determination as to the status … with respect to other Commission rules or programs, nor for any other purpose.” Bureau staff must still process the applications for the licenses. The window to apply closed in September 2020 (see 2007310066).

Rep. Jack Bergman, R-Mich., marked National Agriculture Day on March 19 by urging Congress to pass a bill that would prohibit foreign nationals associated with the Chinese government from buying American farmland.