U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has posted to its Web site another update on the status of its plans to conduct a voluntary test of electronic foreign trade zone (FTZ) admission applications for merchandise reported to CBP via air, sea, and rail manifest.
The book publishing industry’s main trade group filed a lawsuit against Google Wed. over its plans to digitally copy works and distribute excerpts without permission of the copyright owners. The Assn. of American Publishers (AAP) filed the complaint after lengthy discussions broke down between AAP and Google executives regarding copyright infringement implications of the Google Print Library Project.
Illustrating what some dub a “gray area” in an SEC rule meant to promote corporate transparency, a union is weighing whether to file a formal complaint on disclosures Comcast made in a meeting with a Wall Street analyst. The question isn’t whether Comcast should have disclosed the information, union and securities law experts said, but whether Comcast should have disclosed it more widely. At the least, they said, firms like Comcast should err on the side of disclosure. Comcast “emphatically” denied any wrongdoing, and some experts agreed.
Toshiba won’t revise its 2005 financial projections despite the $465.4 million judgment against it in Cal. over charges of misappropriating trade secrets from rival memory-chip maker Lexar Media.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has issued an updated version of its frequently asked questions (FAQ) and responses on its final rule requiring, among other things, the advance electronic presentation of information for all modes of inbound transportation.
Senators took another stab at moving spyware legislation forward, reissuing a call to expand the FTC’s authority to enforce existing online privacy laws and allow the agency to coordinate with foreign law enforcement to prosecute deceptive Web activities. FTC Chmn. Deborah Majoras told the subcommittee overseeing her agency that the biggest problem is finding those responsible for the scourge and punishing them, particularly through civil action. “They obviously can hide behind the Internet, they can skip town or skip the country,” she said, indicating global cooperation is key.
A defendant in an RIAA case is countersuing the industry for accessing her computer without permission and causing health problems. Tanya Andersen, a 42-year-old single mother in Tualatin, Ore., was sued by RIAA in June on copyright infringement allegations in U.S. Dist. Court, Portland, Ore., after several months of settlement efforts.
The International Trade Administration (ITA) and the International Trade Commission (ITC) have issued notices, each initiating automatic five-year sunset reviews on the above-listed antidumping (AD) duty orders.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) appears to have recently posted to its Web site a memorandum which provides guidance on the classification of festive articles, in light of CBP's June 2005 proposal to limit the court decision in the case of Park B. Smith, Ltd. v. U.S (Park) to the entries litigated.
The International Trade Administration (ITA) has initiated an antidumping (AD) duty changed circumstances review of the AD duty order on certain cased pencils from China at the request of M.A. Notch Corporation (Notch), which is requesting that a large novelty pencil be excluded from the AD duty order.