The insufficient enforcement of International Trade Commission exclusion orders is generating a spike in congressional and industry criticism directed at the ITC and Customs and Border Protection (CBP), said industry representatives in recent interviews. They said there are no immediately available options to improve the ITC and CBP exclusion order proceedings that industry maligns as costly and drawn out. Problems include opaque CBP enforcement proceedings, overly broad exclusion order language and inadequate CBP enforcement resources, industry lawyers said. Despite the criticism from Capitol Hill, there appears to be little hope of a legislative solution, said industry lawyers.
The insufficient enforcement of International Trade Commission exclusion orders is generating a spike in congressional and industry criticism directed at the ITC and Customs and Border Protection (CBP), said industry representatives in recent interviews. They said there are no immediately available options to improve the ITC and CBP exclusion order proceedings that industry maligns as costly and drawn out. Problems include opaque CBP enforcement proceedings, overly broad exclusion order language and inadequate CBP enforcement resources, industry lawyers said. Despite the criticism from Capitol Hill, there appears to be little hope of a legislative solution, said industry lawyers.
The insufficient enforcement of International Trade Commission exclusion orders is generating a spike in congressional and industry criticism directed at the ITC and CBP, industry representatives said. But there are no immediately available options to improve the ITC and CBP exclusion order proceedings that industry maligns as costly and drawn out. Problems include opaque CBP enforcement proceedings, overly broad exclusion order language, and inadequate CBP enforcement resources, industry officials said. Despite the criticism from the Hill, there appears to be little hope of a legislative solution, said industry officials.
CBP’s ruling revocation on Best Key’s yarn will take effect 60 days after the end of the federal government shutdown on Oct. 17, instead of the nominal publication date of Oct. 2, ruled the Court of International Trade on Nov. 4. Although paper copies of the ruling revocation may have been available during the shutdown, CBP is required to give 60 days of public notice before a ruling revocation takes effect, and the ruling wasn’t easily accessible to the public until the government resumed operations, CIT said. The court decision is only the latest chapter in an ongoing dispute over classification of the metal-containing yarn. Best Key is attempting to reverse CBP’s revocation of the ruling in another CIT lawsuit filed Oct. 25.
The incipient Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) negotiations must secure all inclusive tariff elimination between the U.S. and European Union (EU) in a final pact, while making inroads towards regulatory harmonization, Senate and industry leaders on Oct. 30 told a Senate Finance Committee hearing on the trade pact (here). Should the U.S. and EU broker comprehensive tariff elimination, the deal could boost U.S. exports to the EU by a third, adding $100 billion annually in U.S. Gross Domestic Product and creating hundreds of thousands of domestic jobs, said Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont., in opening remarks.
BitTorrent indexing sites, cyberlockers and online forums were identified as notorious markets in comments on an out-of-cycle review by the U.S. Trade Representative. Comments in docket USTR-2013-0030 were due Oct. 28
BitTorrent indexing sites, cyberlockers and online forums were identified as notorious markets in comments on an out-of-cycle review by the U.S. Trade Representative. Comments in docket USTR-2013-0030 were due Monday.
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BitTorrent indexing sites, cyberlockers and online forums were identified as notorious markets in comments on an out-of-cycle review by the U.S. Trade Representative. Comments in docket USTR-2013-0030 were due Monday (WID Oct 2 p15).
A draft FCC declaratory ruling that could lead to increased foreign ownership of broadcasters has support from all three commissioners and is likely to arrive for a vote at the Nov. 14 open meeting without alterations to its basic thrust, said an FCC official and several broadcast attorneys in interviews Friday. The declaratory ruling would clarify the commission’s rules that transactions that would result in foreign ownership of more than 25 percent of a broadcaster would be approved on a case-by-case basis. Though this was always the case under the Communications Act, industry officials told us it’s been long understood that such waivers would not be granted (CD Oct 25 p5), and the proposed ruling would explicitly reverse that. The ruling “is really a matter of the FCC exercising the authority they already have,” said Davis Wright broadcast attorney David Silverman, who represents Alaskan broadcasters who support the clarification.