The Radio Technical Commission for Maritime Services backed a proposal from ShipCom and Global HF Net to offer their public coast station system for greater use by land-based parties (see 2508190030), as long as the use is temporary. The proposed use shouldn't “impede future maritime requirements for the spectrum in accordance with its allocated purpose.” It also shouldn’t be expanded into HF maritime mobile spectrum reallocated to automatic connection system and international navigational data system use, the group added.
In oral arguments Sept. 5, steel rebar petitioner Rebar Trade Action Coalition and Turkish exporter Kaptan Demir attempted to define whether a Turkish shipbuilding company, which sold scrap to Kaptan during the review period, was the exporter’s cross-owned input supplier (Kaptan Demir Celik Endustrisi ve Ticaret v. United States, Fed. Cir. # 24-1431).
The Universal Postal Union, an organization that helps to coordinate postal services around the world, says it has developed some workarounds for international mail carriers that will be held liable for U.S. customs duties now that the de minimis exemption no longer is in place.
Amazon's Kuiper said Thursday it landed its first in-flight connectivity customer, JetBlue. Select JetBlue aircraft will offer Kuiper-delivered Wi-Fi starting in 2027.
More products could fall under Section 232 tariffs on steel and aluminum as the federal government continues to take in requests for new products to be covered, according to trade attorney Michael Roll, who was speaking on a Sept. 3 webinar sponsored by A.N. Deringer.
Rep. Greg Steube, R-Fla., a member of the House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Trade, told International Trade Today that Subcommittee Chairman Adrian Smith, R-Neb., is looking to pass a renewal of the African Growth and Opportunity Act "now that we got the big, beautiful bill through," adding that Smith has wanted to do this "for a while."
Christopher Pilkerton, President Donald Trump’s nominee to be the Treasury Department's assistant secretary for investment security (see 2506040013), said Sept. 4 that he would aim to increase compliance with U.S. requirements for foreign investment.
Global HF Net urged the FCC to approve a waiver allowing greater use of its public-coast station system by land-based parties. As the scope and size of emergencies has expanded “and the need for public safety-related communications has grown, the use of the HF system has become an increasingly important tool in the public safety communications tool-belt,” said a filing Thursday in docket 25-255. Other companies hope to use the spectrum for non-disaster communications, Global HF Net said.
Though boosting AI innovation is one of the EU’s top priorities for the next several years, member states are implementing and interpreting plans and rules differently from one another, said panelists during an IAPP webinar Wednesday. The session covered the European Commission's new mandate of priorities and policies, the EU AI Act, the AI Continent Action Plan and their impact on data governance programs.
The Customs Rulings Online Search System (CROSS) was updated between Aug. 19 and Aug. 21 with the following headquarters rulings (ruling revocations and modifications will be detailed elsewhere in a separate article as they are announced in the Customs Bulletin):