FCC Chairman Kevin Martin has the support of Democratic colleagues for an order finding that Comcast violated the commission’s Internet freedom principles, FCC officials said. The order would take Comcast to task for blocking peer-to- peer file transfers and inadequately disclosing its network management practices (CD July 16 p2). Meanwhile, in filings with the commission, Comcast traded jibes with the network engineer who publicized the practices.
FCC Chairman Kevin Martin has the support of Democratic colleagues for an order finding that Comcast violated the commission’s Internet freedom principles, FCC officials said. The order would take Comcast to task for blocking peer-to- peer file transfers and inadequately disclosing its network management practices(WID July 16 p1). Meanwhile, in filings with the commission, Comcast traded jibes with the network engineer who publicized the practices.
P2P company Lime Wire will enter the dustbin of history beside Grokster, the RIAA said in a heavily blacked-out 47- page motion for summary judgment in its long-running infringement suit. The RIAA cited Lime Wire marketing materials, claims on its Web site and internal messages -- including a former engineer’s claim that Lime Wire’s business was infringement-based -- as evidence of its intent to attract the users of Grokster after it lost a Supreme Court case (WID June 28/05 p1).
The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative posted USTR Schwab's July 22nd remarks at the Doha Ministerial in Geneva. Schwab's remarks include a new proposal to limit U.S. agricultural subsidies to $15 billion per year. Senator Grassley, ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee and senior member of the Agriculture Committee, commented on the USTR's $15 billion proposal, and the reaction from leading developing countries that it was not enough. (USTR remarks, dated 07/22/08, available at http://www.ustr.gov/assets/Document_Library/Press_Releases/2008/July/asset_upload_file409_15037.pdf; Grassley statement, dated 07/22/08, available at http://finance.senate.gov/press/Gpress/2008/prg072208a.pdf.)
The International Trade Commission has instituted a section 337 patent-based investigation of certain rubber antidegradants, antidegradant intermediates, and products containing the same pursuant to a complaint.
In E.I. DuPont de Nemours & Company v. U.S., the Court of International Trade ruled on the amount of manufacturing substitution drawback due to Dupont from Customs on a single entry.
The U.S. Court of International Trade has ruled that Totes-Isotoner Corporation, which had challenged the constitutionality of different U.S. tariff rates for men's and other gloves, had standing to bring its claims but did not plead sufficient facts to state a claim of unconstitutional discrimination. Therefore, the CIT dismissed the case without prejudice.
On June 19, 2008, the House Committee of Transportation and Infrastructure, Subcommittee on the Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation held a hearing on "Federal Maritime Commission Management and Regulation of International Shipping."
The International Trade Administration and the International Trade Commission have each issued notices initiating automatic five-year Sunset Reviews on the above-listed antidumping and countervailing duty orders.
President Bush has issued a proclamation lifting the application of the Trading with the Enemy Act (TWEA) with respect to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea), and notified Congress of his intent to rescind North Korea's designation as a State Sponsor of Terrorism. These actions were taken following North Korea's submission of a declaration of its nuclear programs, which will now be subject to verification.