The House of Representatives intends to take a vote this week to overturn the administration's decision to delay collection of duties for antidumping and countervailing duty circumvention in the case of solar panels made with Chinese components coming from Southeast Asia.

A resolution that would overturn the Biden administration’s two-year delay of antidumping and countervailing duties on solar cells and panels from Southeast Asia passed out of the House Ways and Means Committee 26-13 on April 19.

The 9th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals won't pause California's shift to connections-based state USF contribution while considering T-Mobile's motion for stay. The court denied the carrier's request for immediate administrative stay (see [Ref:2304100006). The California Public Utilities Commission should reply to the carrier's other request to stay the CPUC order while the case is pending by April 14 and T-Mobile may reply April 17 in case 23-15490, the 9th Circuit said.

Broadcasters are expecting to talk ATSC 3.0, the future of AM radio in cars, and FCC regulatory fees at 2023’s NAB Show in Las Vegas, which kicks off Saturday. It's the second in-person show since the 2020 and 2021 iterations were canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Broadcasters, attorneys and industry officials told us they expect the show to be the best attended since 2019. “I don't think there's any question that will be a lot more people than last year's show,” said Wilkinson Barker broadcast attorney David Oxenford.

Australia will pause its World Trade Organization case against China on barley for three months while Beijing reviews its restrictions, Australia announced this week. China placed 80.5% duties on Australian barley in 2020. The parties recently carried out "constructive dialogue at all levels," leading to a three- to four-month reprieve in the WTO case, Australian Foreign Affairs Minister Penny Wong said April 11.

Australia will pause its World Trade Organization case against China on barley for three months while Beijing reviews its restrictions, Australia announced this week. China placed 80.5% duties on Australian barley in 2020. The parties recently carried out "constructive dialogue at all levels," leading to a three- to four-month reprieve in the WTO case, Australian Foreign Affairs Minister Penny Wong said April 11.

A federal judge again refused to pause California’s move to a connections-based contribution method for state USF. T-Mobile and subsidiaries pressed the U.S. District Court of Northern California Friday to apply a stay while they appeal to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals the district court’s previous denial of preliminary injunction (see 2304070043). Ruling Sunday, Magistrate Judge Laurel Beeler denied T-Mobile a stay of the California Public Utilities Commission rule. Beeler also denied T-Mobile’s alternative request for an administrative stay until the 9th Circuit decides the stay issue. “The court denies the motion for the reasons it denied a preliminary injunction,” the judge wrote in case 3:23-cv-00483. The CPUC’s rule is different but not inconsistent with FCC rules, she said. “The plaintiffs did not show a likelihood of success on the merits or serious questions going to the merits, and the balance of equities and the public interest in any event did not tip in their favor.” T-Mobile, late Monday, filed an emergency motion for stay or injunction pending appeal at the 9th Circuit. Since the CPUC order took effect April 1, appellants “are already suffering ongoing, irreparable harms” and request an immediate administrative stay while the court decides Monday’s motion, upon which it wants a ruling by May 1, the carrier said. Without relief, appellants will suffer “financial losses … of nearly $11 million per month, loss of business and customer goodwill, and reputational harm.”

T-Mobile is turning up the heat on the FCC to issue licenses bought in last year’s 2.5 GHz auction, linking the failure to do so to the agency’s focus on closing the digital divide. Neville Ray, T-Mobile president-technology, argued for issuing the licenses in a Thursday blog. Lawyers active in the proceeding said Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel continues to believe the FCC doesn’t have the authority to issue the licenses after expiration of its auction authority, though the Office of General Counsel is studying the issue.

The Minnesota Public Utilities Commission seeks responses by April 17 to a Wednesday motion by the Minnesota Telecom Alliance and Minnesota Rural Electric Association in a review of LTD Broadband’s eligible telecom carrier designation, Administrative Law Judge James LaFave ordered Friday. And the ALJ set a telephonic prehearing conference for April 24 at 11 a.m. CST on the motion in docket 22-221. The associations asked the PUC to suspend LTD’s ETC designation until the company can show the PUC that it can meet obligations to serve about 102,000 locations. “Developments occurring since the Commission initiated this proceeding have confirmed LTD’s inability to perform its ETC obligations and heightened the risk to the public interest from allowing its expanded ETC designation to remain in effect,” the groups said. LaFave paused the commission’s LTD review in January (see 2301180038).

The Commerce Department will indefinitely pause its antidumping and countervailing duty investigations on white grape juice concentrate from Argentina after reaching suspension agreements with Argentine exporters and the Argentine government, it said in a pair of notices released March 23.