CBP last week updated the landing page on its website for its ACE Electronic Export Manifest program to include more “background information, potential benefits, and additional resources to help participants join” its EEM pilot, the agency said in an Oct. 19 CSMS message. CBP has been working to better inform industry about the potential benefits of EEM to convince more companies to participate in the pilot ahead of its full launch (see 2209150014 and 2110180038).
Rework proposed rules for a $750 million broadband program to “meaningfully prioritize unserved communities,” the California Broadband and Video Association (CalBroadband) urged the California Public Utilities Commission in comments Wednesday. The California Public Utilities Commission could vote Nov. 2 on a proposed decision for the broadband loan loss reserve fund (BLLRF). The Center for Accessible Technology (CforAT) and Rural County Representatives of California (RCRC) applauded proposed rules.
Getting Congress to restore the FCC’s spectrum auction authority as quickly as possible is a top priority of the Competitive Carriers Association, CCA President Tim Donovan said Wednesday at the start of the group’s annual conference in Atlanta. Donovan also urged launching a 5G Fund, the topic of a September Further NPRM (see 2309210035).
Oral argument Tuesday in U.S. District Court for Oregon in Eugene on the cross-motions for summary judgment over Lane County’s denial of AT&T’s application to build a 150-foot-tall cell tower (see 2210260009) focused prominently on the county’s assertion the federal court lacks jurisdiction to hear the case because AT&T failed to appeal the denial to the state’s Land Use Board of Appeals (LUBA) as Oregon law requires.
The European Parliament on Oct. 17 adopted new fisheries control rules requiring all EU fishing vessels to be monitored and their catches to be electronically reported. The measures are meant to establish "full traceability" under the EU's new fisheries control system and were adopted on a 438-146 vote, with 40 abstentions.
Neither the current definition of "video service" under Illinois state law nor the modified language taking effect in 2024 entitles East St. Louis to franchise fees from streaming services, the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Friday (docket 22-2905) in the city's appeal of dismissal of its suit against numerous streamers (see 2209230059). The 2024 language "makes pellucid what most readers of the older definition would have understood: content streamed over the Internet is outside the scope of this regulatory system," the three-judge panel said, upholding the dismissal by U.S. Magistrate Judge Mark Beatty. The panel also rejected the streamer defendant-appellees use the public right of way for communication, ruling if "phone calls over landline cables, electricity over wires, and gas routed through pipes are not trespasses on the City’s land -- and they are not -- neither are the electrons that carry movies and other videos." And it rejected city arguments about a municipal law barring resale of cable TV services, saying over-the-top streamers don't do that. Deciding were 7th Circuit Judges Frank Easterbrook, David Hamilton and Doris Pryor. Oral argument was in September (see 2309120039).
Neither the current definition of "video service" under Illinois state law nor the modified language taking effect in 2024 entitles East St. Louis to franchise fees from streaming services, the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Friday (docket 22-2905) in the city's appeal of dismissal of its suit against numerous streamers (see 2209230059). The 2024 language "makes pellucid what most readers of the older definition would have understood: content streamed over the Internet is outside the scope of this regulatory system," the three-judge panel said, upholding the dismissal by U.S. Magistrate Judge Mark Beatty. The panel also rejected the streamer defendant-appellees use the public right of way for communication, ruling if "phone calls over landline cables, electricity over wires, and gas routed through pipes are not trespasses on the City’s land -- and they are not -- neither are the electrons that carry movies and other videos." And it rejected city arguments about a municipal law barring resale of cable TV services, saying over-the-top streamers don't do that. Deciding were 7th Circuit Judges Frank Easterbrook, David Hamilton and Doris Pryor. Oral argument was in September (see 2309120039).
The Commerce Department properly dropped its subsidy finding in a countervailing duty investigation for respondent Gujarat Fluorochemicals concerning a 30-year land lease to one of its affiliates, Inox Wind Limited, by India's State Industrial Development Corp., the Court of International Trade ruled in an Oct. 13 opinion. Judge Timothy Stanceu defended his prior remand order in the case, which said that based on Commerce's interpretation of its regulation, the subsidy finding couldn't be legal.
The EU's top trade official, Valdis Dombrovskis, said EU and U.S. negotiators haven't given up on their Oct. 31 deadline to address both non-market overcapacity in steel and aluminum and ways to privilege trade in cleaner metals.
The EU's top trade official, Valdis Dombrovskis, said EU and U.S. negotiators haven't given up on their Oct. 31 deadline to address both non-market overcapacity in steel and aluminum and ways to privilege trade in cleaner metals.