With FCC broadcast flag rules invalidated by a sweeping decision of the U.S. Appeals Court, D.C. (CD May 9 p1), the unanswered question at our Mon. deadline was whether the debate would shift to Congress and affect a DTV transition bill to establish a hard deadline for return of the analog spectrum.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has issued an administrative message stating that it has made a change for Northern Border direct arrival truck entries (mode of transportation - 30 and 31). CBP states that this change will allow CBP to make a district/port of entry change on an entry, in some cases.
With FCC broadcast flag rules invalidated by a sweeping decision of the U.S. Appeals Court, D.C. (CED May 9 p1), the unanswered question at our Mon. deadline was whether the debate would shift to Congress and affect a DTV transition bill to establish a hard deadline for return of the analog spectrum.
The Washington File reports that the State Department's publication Country Reports on Terrorism 2004 identifies 40 Foreign Terrorist Organizations and also identifies another 40 terrorist groups or organizations that were active in the past year. According to the Washington File, designation of a group as a Foreign Terrorist Organization results in the U.S. government blocking assets held at U.S. financial institutions, denying its members visas, and making it a crime for U.S. citizens or others within U.S. jurisdiction to provide it with support or resources. The State Department's publication is available at http://www.state.gov/s/ct/rls/c14813.htm(Washington File Pub 04/27/05, available at http://usinfo.state.gov/xarchives/display.html?p=washfile-english&y=2005&m=April&x=20050427155413dmslahrellek0.2537195&t=is/is-latest.html)
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has issued another administrative message on Remote Location Filing (RLF) for in-bonds, which is transcribed below:
The International Trade Administration (ITA) and the International Trade Commission (ITC) have issued various notices, each initiating automatic five-year sunset reviews on the above-listed antidumping (AD) duty orders and countervailing (CV) duty orders.
Intel and the Business Software Alliance (BSA) backed Apple’s attempt to subpoena online news sites and an ISP with a filing Wed. to the Cal. Court of Appeals. Apple wants to learn how the sites got confidential information about its forthcoming GarageBand software. Intel and BSA agree: “All technology-oriented companies -- and ultimately all consumers -- share a strong interest in vigorous enforcement of the trade secret laws, including discovery to determine who may have violated those laws.” In court papers, the groups said strong trade secret laws are vital to Cal.’s high tech sector and the U.S. economy overall. “There is no public interest in having such trade secrets stolen and plastered on the Internet for competitors and others to see,” they said. If that occurs, victims must be able to seek court redress -- starting with discovery to see who committed the theft, they said. But Intel and BSA stipulate that courts shouldn’t approve “wild fishing expeditions” into media files. Apple is suing a handful of unnamed persons alleged to have leaked information on the project and is subpoenaing Nfox, the ISP of PowerPage.com publisher Jason O'Grady, demanding access to O'Grady’s communications and unpublished materials (WID April 12 p3). While Intel and BSA said they strongly support First Amendment rights, they see a “vast difference between cases where the media have simply reported on a misdeed by someone else and cases where reporters have wittingly or unwittingly participated in notorious activity.” This case illustrates that the media’s interest in concealing sources is stronger in the former than the latter. Genentech also filed papers in support of Apple this week.
The United States Association of Importers of Textiles and Apparel (USA-ITA) has issued a Textile Development Memo stating that the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has lifted the preliminary injunction against further action on threat-based China safeguard petitions. As a result, USA-ITA states that CITA may resume its consideration of the 12 threat-based cases that were filed last year. (USA-ITA, TDM dated 04/27/05, www.usaita.com )
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has posted to its Web site its Performance and Annual Report Fiscal Year 2004, which covers federal fiscal year (FY) 2004 (October 1, 2003 - September 30, 2004), with discussion of some subsequent events.
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has issued a report entitled, U.S.-China Trade: Textile Safeguard Procedures Should be Improved.