The FCC is committed to advancing 911 location accuracy rules beyond the last update approved in 2011, FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler said Monday during a day-long 911 location accuracy workshop at FCC headquarters. “I have been pro-911 and pro-911 location since the beginning of the location challenge,” said Wheeler, who paid an unscheduled visit to the workshop. States led by California have raised concerns that current requirements aren’t good enough. Carriers have been locked in a fight with the Find Me 911 Coalition, which they say is funded by technology provider TruePosition and has been spreading bad information to the states. On Monday, the FCC waded into the fight.
The Court of International Trade dismissed on Nov. 8 an importer’s challenge to CBP’s order to redeliver 300 stereo headsets from China for intellectual property violations. The court had found out that plaintiff Evertek’s headsets had been subsequently seized and destroyed by CBP, rendering the case moot. That revelation came nearly a year after the merchandise had been destroyed, and over 18 months after Evertek had filed suit. At the June 2013 hearing where CIT Judge Timothy Stanceu learned that the merchandise had been destroyed a year earlier, the court excoriated CBP for its handling of the case, criticizing the agency for destroying goods under the court’s jurisdiction and then allowing the court to waste resources on a non-existent claim.
International Trade Today is providing readers with some of the top stories for Nov. 4-8 in case they were missed.
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.