U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has posted to its Web site another revised (February 2007) version of its Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) "Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) on e-Manifest" (electronic manifest).
CBP has issued an ABI administrative message announcing that recent changes to the 2007 Harmonized Tariff Schedule (HTS) records, Harmonized System (HS) Update (No. 0703) include the following:
A proposed White House FY 2008 budget would double FCC spending for oversight of the Universal Service Fund, add $2 billion in interoperability funds and spend $426.3 million on the digital converter box program, according to documents submitted Mon. to Congress. OMB Dir. Rob Portman called the President’s budget request “credible” in a briefing with reporters. Portman said he consulted with Congress before drafting the document so he could be responsive to concerns.
“Substantial public interest benefits” would flow from giving Horizon Mobile Communications special temporary authority (STA) to provide Broadband Global Area Network (BGAN) service using Inmarsat-4, Inmarsat said in an FCC filing. Mobile Satellite Ventures opposed the STA, but Inmarsat said Mobile “failed to show any countervailing harms.” Horizon would use IP technology, which Inmarsat said would provide connectivity with other IP-based technologies and potentially support remote access to land mobile radios if terrestrial infrastructures are disrupted.
The Pirate Bay’s quest to buy an island free of copyright law (WID Jan 16 p7) produced a faction aiming to found a society with broader goals than evading DMCA takedown notices. The Free Nation Foundation wants to “establish an ecologically sustainable society that provides the freedom to advance humanity through science, reason and cooperation.” The only restrictions on personal freedom that the nascent group would impose are “upon actions that disallow the freedom of others,” and it emphasizes “information sharing” as a core principle. The foundation has “encompassed new ideals” and broken with its Swedish copyfighting colleagues, which means abandoning immediate attempts to buy land for a new country, it said: “Our current plan is to build the organization that can make the ideas of the society a reality.” People who want to contribute to discussion can post to project forums and join official IRC discussions -- www.freenationfoundation.org.
Companies seeing huge profit in broadcast white spaces want FCC rules as loose as possible, to promote a vibrant market and get gear makers to offer many devices, they said in comments filed with the FCC. With the key question being whether the spectrum will be licensed or not, some commenters warned of the risk of interference to wireless microphones and other devices already using the TV bands.
Companies seeing huge profit in TV “white spaces” want FCC rules as loose as possible, to promote a vibrant market and get gear makers to offer many devices, they said in comments filed with the FCC. With the key question being whether the spectrum will be licensed or not, some commenters warned of the risk of interference to wireless microphones and other devices already using the TV bands.
Federal policymakers are discussing net neutrality in quiet tones and without rhetoric, abandoning the invective prominent when Congress was considering a major telecom bill, Rep. Boucher (D-Va.) told reporters at the Wed. State of the Net conference. Signaling shifts in his own thinking, Boucher said he’s concerned about protecting innovation -- a concern to be balanced against the need to protect startup companies’ ability to have access to “fast lane” services, he said.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has issued an administrative message which sources state reminds the trade that all softwood lumber products that originate from British Columbia that are classified in the tariff numbers subject to the SLA 2006 export permit number requirements, must be reported using ISO Codes 'XD' for BC coastal region or 'XE' for BC interior region, regardless of whether the goods fall within the written scope of SLA 2006.
Federal policymakers are discussing net neutrality in quiet tones and without rhetoric, abandoning the invective prominent when Congress was considering a major telecom bill, Rep. Boucher (D-Va.) told reporters at the Wed. State of the Net conference. Signaling shifts in his own thinking, Boucher said he’s concerned about protecting innovation -- a concern to be balanced against the need to protect startup companies’ ability to have access to “fast lane” services, he said.