The U.S. Census Bureau (Census) has issued a proposed rule to amend the Foreign Trade Statistics Regulations (FTSR, 15 CFR Part 30)1 in order to require mandatory filing of export information through the Automated Export System (AES) or AESDirect for all shipments where a Shipper's Export Declaration (SED) is currently required, etc.
The U.S. Census Bureau (Census) has issued a proposed rule to amend the Foreign Trade Statistics Regulations (FTSR, 15 CFR Part 30)1 in order to require mandatory filing of export information through the Automated Export System (AES) or AESDirect for all shipments where a Shipper's Export Declaration (SED) is currently required, etc.
The U.S. Census Bureau (Census) has issued a proposed rule to amend the Foreign Trade Statistics Regulations (FTSR, 15 CFR Part 30)1 in order to require mandatory filing of export information through the Automated Export System (AES) or AESDirect for all shipments where a Shipper's Export Declaration (SED) is currently required, etc.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has issued a memorandum containing its instructions on the filing and substantiation of claims for preferential tariff treatment made under the U.S.-Australia Free Trade Agreement (UAFTA), as highlighted below.
The U.S.’s failure to regulate Internet gambling is pitting it against the rest of the world, the head of a U.K. gaming company said Tues. American policy-makers agree with their international counterparts on the key problems involved in online gambling, but Congress’s inability to enact proper rules is making those problems worse, said Nigel Payne, CEO of Sportingbet. He said the U.S. will be even more isolated if a World Trade Organization (WTO) appeals panel upholds last fall’s WTO decision that the U.S. can’t bar Americans from using offshore gambling websites (WID Jan 11 p7).
Many World Trade Organization (WTO) member countries fail to comply with their commitments under telecom trade agreements, according to comments filed with the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR). Commenters urged the USTR to continue to work with regulators in other countries to enforce the existing trade agreements and negotiate new ones. The comments were filed in the USTR’s annual Sec. 1377 review of the operation and effectiveness of all U.S. trade agreements on telecom products and services. The USTR is expected to conclude the review by March 31.
Catching and prosecuting international copyright pirates remains a tough problem in cyberspace, said federal law enforcement and industry sources. Despite well-publicized efforts by the entertainment industry to bust illegal file sharers in civil courts, these efforts are primarily U.S.-centric. In criminal cases, the task of convincing local law enforcement to actively pursue the bad guys takes time and finesse, experts said.
IBiquity, Kenwood and Texas Instruments are named in a complaint filed last week at the International Trade Commission (ITC) alleging that TI’s “C6000” family of DSP devices sourced from its plants in Malaysia and Taiwan and built into Kenwood HD Radio receivers produced in Japan violate 5 patents on digital processing techniques held by a licensor in Boulder, Colo.
The U.S. Association of Importers of Textiles and Apparel (USA-ITA) has issued a Textile Development Memo stating that on November 8, 2004, the U.S. industry filed another China textile safeguard petition, this time for synthetic filament fabrics (Cat 620). (TDM, dated 11/08/04, www.usaita.com)
The Journal of Commerce Online reports that the container congestion that has affected the Los Angeles - Long Beach harbor for the past three months will continue for at least four to eight weeks, or even longer, due to higher than projected cargo volumes, compounded by lack of capacity on railroads serving the docks and a severe shortage of longshore labor. (JoC Online, dated 09/29/04, www.joc.com)