The following lawsuits were filed at the Court of International Trade during the week of Feb. 5-11:
CBP released its draft guidance for drawback changes under the Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Act to help provide detail on interim policies between when the agency starts accepting claims and when regulations are finalized. Along with a draft of Customs and Trade Automated Interface Requirements (see 1801290007) and business process documents, "this guidance document will serve as a reference for the tentative policy and procedures relating to major drawback change," CBP said. The agency recently said it did not expect to publish proposed drawback regulations by the time CBP starts taking TFTEA claims on Feb. 24 (see 1802020053).
China has asked for consultations under World Trade Organization rules to discuss safeguard tariffs the United States is levying against washing machines and solar panels. The request, filed at the WTO on Feb. 6, is the first step in a dispute process on whether the tariffs violate international trade law. "We believe the measures taken by the United States are not consistent with its obligations," China wrote in its requests.
The following lawsuits were filed at the Court of International Trade during the week of Jan. 29 - Feb. 4:
While staffers for FCC Chairman Ajit Pai aren’t signaling yet what he will recommend on the contentious question of what to do about priority access licenses in the 3.5 GHz citizens broadband radio service (CBRS) band, growing industry speculation is Pai will propose a compromise. Rather than auction all the PALs on a census-tract basis, or as much larger partial economic areas, the FCC would take a varied approach. It would offer some of the seven PALs in each market as census tracts or a similarly small license size and others as PEAs or possibly county-sized licenses.
While staffers for FCC Chairman Ajit Pai aren’t signaling yet what he will recommend on the contentious question of what to do about priority access licenses in the 3.5 GHz citizens broadband radio service (CBRS) band, growing industry speculation is Pai will propose a compromise. Rather than auction all the PALs on a census-tract basis, or as much larger partial economic areas, the FCC would take a varied approach. It would offer some of the seven PALs in each market as census tracts or a similarly small license size and others as PEAs or possibly county-sized licenses.
While staffers for FCC Chairman Ajit Pai aren’t signaling yet what he will recommend on the contentious question of what to do about priority access licenses in the 3.5 GHz citizens broadband radio service (CBRS) band, growing industry speculation is Pai will propose a compromise. Rather than auction all the PALs on a census-tract basis, or as much larger partial economic areas, the FCC would take a varied approach. It would offer some of the seven PALs in each market as census tracts or a similarly small license size and others as PEAs or possibly county-sized licenses.
The following lawsuits were filed at the Court of International Trade during the week of Jan. 22-28:
Neustar and North American Portability Management traded fire over disruption risks in the FCC's local number portability administrator transition from Neustar to Telcordia's iconectiv. Neustar said a planned initial April 8 LNPA regional system "cutover" to iconectiv "suffers from continued lack of transparency," testing that has been "abbreviated" and the lack of a "safety net" if it fails. NAPM's transition oversight manager (TOM), PwC, "has no plan for rolling back" LNPA functions to Neustar if iconectiv systems fail, said the incumbent in a Wednesday webinar presentation.
The following lawsuits were filed at the Court of International Trade during the week of Jan. 15-21: