U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has issued an administrative message which sources state reminds the trade that all softwood lumber products that originate from British Columbia that are classified in the tariff numbers subject to the SLA 2006 export permit number requirements, must be reported using ISO Codes 'XD' for BC coastal region or 'XE' for BC interior region, regardless of whether the goods fall within the written scope of SLA 2006.
Federal policymakers are discussing net neutrality in quiet tones and without rhetoric, abandoning the invective prominent when Congress was considering a major telecom bill, Rep. Boucher (D-Va.) told reporters at the Wed. State of the Net conference. Signaling shifts in his own thinking, Boucher said he’s concerned about protecting innovation -- a concern to be balanced against the need to protect startup companies’ ability to have access to “fast lane” services, he said.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has posted to its Web site an updated "draft" deployment schedule for equipping land border ports with ACE e-Manifest: Truck capabilities.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) had posted an administrative message on January 26, 2007 stating that on the evening of January 25, 2007 CBP experienced some network problems that impacted its ability to exchange messages with the trade. According to CBP, it appeared that most of the e-Manifests were received but the return messages were not sent for unknown reasons.
“Escalation of military space activities,” like China’s recent anti-satellite test, may not have an immediate impact on commercial satellites, but could cause future “collateral damage,” economist Harold Furchtgott-Roth, an ex-FCC comr., said in a N.Y. Sun article. “Anti-satellite technology threatens all satellites of the future” and there are few laws to stop it, he wrote: “Much like the diffusion of nuclear technology over the past 60 years, anti-satellite technology will likely be held by dozens of countries and nongovernmental entities in the not too distant future… Of course, the collateral damage from military operations gone awry threatens all commercial activities, not just satellites. But land-based systems tend to have more robustness and redundancy than space systems.” Commercial space efforts face “daunting challenges” such as the long lead times to build satellites and the risk of launch and post-launch failure, he said: “Now add an increasingly hostile space environment where rogue nations have access to space technologies.” The toughest part: “Space is as lawless as it is vast… Space is a public commons with few if any laws or property rights… One day, a commercial satellite may be disabled in a collision with space debris or blinded inadvertently by a laser intended for military purposes. What recourse would a commercial satellite operator have? It turns out, very little.”
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has posted to its Web site a report for the trade regarding the Automated Commercial Environment (ACE)/International Trade Data System (ITDS) Standard Data Set (SDS) as of December 2006.
A Del. state court upheld a 2003 local zoning ruling that denied Cingular (now AT&T) a variance to build a 150-ft. wireless communications tower on a 13-acre plot zoned for low-density-residential use near the town of Ocean View, on esthetic grounds. The Del. Superior Court said the Sussex Board of Adjustment had no factual basis to favor Cingular because Cingular failed to present persuasive rebuttals to neighbors’ objections that the tower would be an eyesore adversely affecting their property values. The court said Cingular relied on 2 old studies from out-of-state describing land-value situations that weren’t comparable to the case at issue, and chose not to hire local experts to assess the tower’s impact on the neighbors’ land values.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has posted to its Web site a notice announcing a "weekly" special import quota of 21,253,330 kg for upland cotton purchased not later than May 1, 2007 and entered under HTS 9903.52.31. The quota period is February 1, 2007 through July 30, 2007; the opening date is February 1, 2007.
State laws that try to protect children from “cyberbullying” face serious First Amendment challenges, despite good intentions, experts told us. An Ark. bill that would update the state’s antibullying statues for the computer age is progressing through legislature, but similar proposals in Fla. and Wash. failed to clear committees. There’s no consensus among the states, and federal legislation is “unlikely,” said John Morris, Center for Democracy & Technology Dir-Internet Standards.
CBP has already announced the implementation of mandatory Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) electronic manifest: Truck (e-Manifest: Truck1) for advance cargo information purposes for the following ports: