The following lawsuits were filed at the Court of International Trade during the week of Jan. 8-14:
The National Marine Fisheries Service is proposing new regulations on the requirements and procedures of its planned Commerce Trusted Trader Program (CTTP) for high-risk seafood imports. Under the proposed rule, participating importers would have to maintain an “internal control system” of product tracing and verification and submit to annual third-party audits. In return, the importer would benefit from reduced entry filing requirements under the NMFS Seafood Import Monitoring Program, which took effect Jan. 1.
Vietnam filed a new challenge at the World Trade Organization on Dec. 12 of U.S. antidumping duties on frozen fish fillets from Vietnam, the WTO said in a press release. The country says the U.S. violated WTO rules in several recent and ongoing administrative reviews, including by requiring Vietnamese exporters to demonstrate their eligibility for separate rates or else assigning them to the Vietnam-wide entity. The request for consultations begins a 60-day period of discussions between the U.S. and Vietnam. If that period passes without agreement, Vietnam may request a dispute settlement panel to decide the case.
Canada recently filed a wide-ranging challenge at the World Trade Organization to U.S. procedures in antidumping and countervailing duty investigations. In a request for consultations publicly released Jan. 10, Canada said several aspects of U.S antidumping and countervailing duty laws and regulations violate WTO rules, including the retroactive cash deposit requirements after “critical circumstances” determinations.
The following lawsuits were filed at the Court of International Trade during the week of Jan. 2-7:
The Supreme Court should strike down the FCC's 2015 net neutrality order, said internet entrepreneur Daniel Berninger, who continues to pursue an appeal despite the current commission's rollback of the telecom regulation in that order. Without high court intervention, FCC authority over the internet won't be constrained by Congress or the Constitution, with its chairman effectively "a king," Berninger said at a Hudson Institute event Monday. Most legal experts we have heard from said they doubt justices will grant Berninger's cert petition seeking review of lower court rulings upholding the order (in Berninger v. FCC, 17-498, here), given the recent FCC net neutrality reversal (see 1712140039 and 1801050031). Some say he has a chance.
The Supreme Court should strike down the FCC's 2015 net neutrality order, said internet entrepreneur Daniel Berninger, who continues to pursue an appeal despite the current commission's rollback of the telecom regulation in that order. Without high court intervention, FCC authority over the internet won't be constrained by Congress or the Constitution, with its chairman effectively "a king," Berninger said at a Hudson Institute event Monday. Most legal experts we have heard from said they doubt justices will grant Berninger's cert petition seeking review of lower court rulings upholding the order (in Berninger v. FCC, 17-498, here), given the recent FCC net neutrality reversal (see 1712140039 and 1801050031). Some say he has a chance.
The FCC's net neutrality deregulation ruling and orders closely track expectations, while clarifying the agency's view on the timetable for looming court challenges, according to our initial review of the 539-page item released Thursday evening (see 1801040059). The final "internet freedom" declaratory ruling, report and order, and order text appears mostly the same as a draft (see 1711220026). Several changes -- on transparency decisions and the item's effective date -- were announced when commissioners voted 3-2 along party lines Dec. 14 to scrap Communications Act Title II broadband classification and net neutrality rules (see 1712140039). Tech heavyweights said they will join the inevitable court challenge to the regulations.
The FCC's net neutrality deregulation ruling and orders closely track expectations, while clarifying the agency's view on the timetable for looming court challenges, according to our initial review of the 539-page item released Thursday evening (see 1801040059). The final "internet freedom" declaratory ruling, report and order, and order text appears mostly the same as a draft (see 1711220026). Several changes -- on transparency decisions and the item's effective date -- were announced when commissioners voted 3-2 along party lines Dec. 14 to scrap Communications Act Title II broadband classification and net neutrality rules (see 1712140039). Tech heavyweights said they will join the inevitable court challenge to the regulations.
Many questions remain about the rules for the future of the 3.5 GHz band, but industry officials said a compromise appears to be in the works that could leave census tracts in place as the primary license size for the priority access licenses (PALs), the licensed component of the shared band. Industry officials said the path to approval will be much smoother if FCC Commissioner Mike O’Rielly agrees to leave the license sizes as they are in the original rules, rather than pressing for larger license geographies that wireless ISPs and others say would be too big for everyone but the carriers. The FCC didn’t comment.