Even if the Commerce Department finds that solar panels from Southeast Asia are circumventing antidumping and countervailing duty actions against Chinese exports, no AD/CVD will be collected for the next two years, the Biden administration announced on June 6. Trade lawyers were astonished by the action, which is based on the authority to temporarily suspend AD/CVD when imports are needed to respond to natural disasters "or other emergencies."

Even if the Commerce Department finds that solar panels from Southeast Asia are circumventing antidumping and countervailing duty actions against Chinese exports, no AD/CVD will be collected for the next two years, the Biden administration announced on June 6. Trade lawyers were astonished by the action, which is based on the authority to temporarily suspend AD/CVD when imports are needed to respond to natural disasters "or other emergencies."

HP, like most PC vendors, expects it will continue to have strong commercial PC demand for the rest of calendar 2022, with “some softening of the consumer businesses,” said CEO Enrique Lores on an earnings call Tuesday for fiscal Q2 ended April 30. Revenue in HP’s Personal Systems segment grew 9% to $11.5 billion -- “our highest Q2 revenue ever, reflecting the durability of PC demand,” he said.

The Department of Homeland Security should permanently shutter its disinformation board, Republicans told us last week after the director resigned (see 2205180051). Democrats also had critical comments about the board’s rollout, following free speech objections from Republicans (see 2205050048).

The Department of Homeland Security should permanently shutter its disinformation board, Republicans told us last week after the director resigned (see 2205180051). Democrats also had critical comments about the board’s rollout, following free speech objections from Republicans (see 2205050048).

The Department of Homeland Security’s disinformation board director announced her resignation Wednesday after weeks of Republican criticism claiming the agency’s board was attempting to police online speech (see 2205040061). Nina Jankowicz announced her departure, saying mischaracterizations of the board’s work had become a distraction to the DHS’ work, and she will leave to return to work in the “public sphere.” The board’s work will be “paused” during a monthslong review of the board by the Homeland Security Advisory Council, a DHS spokesperson said. With a 75-day deadline, the assessment will focus on how DHS can “most effectively and appropriately address disinformation that poses a threat to our country, while protecting free speech, civil rights, civil liberties, and privacy,” the agency said. HSAC will review how DHS can “achieve greater transparency across our disinformation-related work and increase trust with the public and other key stakeholders.” The board has been “grossly and intentionally mischaracterized: it was never about censorship or policing speech in any manner,” DHS said. “It was designed to ensure we fulfill our mission to protect the homeland, while protecting core Constitutional rights. However, false attacks have become a significant distraction from the Department’s vitally important work to combat disinformation that threatens the safety and security of the American people.” FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr tweeted he was “pleased” to hear about the board’s suspension: It’s “important to shut this and all similar efforts down entirely. The core problem is not the people that would serve as the government's Disinformation Czars, its that those jobs should not exist.”

Senate Commerce Committee Chair Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., will meet with ranking member Roger Wicker, R-Miss., Monday afternoon for renewed privacy negotiations, a committee member told us last week.

Senate Commerce Committee Chair Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., will meet with ranking member Roger Wicker, R-Miss., Monday afternoon for renewed privacy negotiations, a committee member told us last week.

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg told the Senate Commerce Committee Tuesday he “had dialogue” with Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo and NTIA Administrator Alan Davidson on collaborating to ensure there aren’t future interagency spectrum policy disputes on the scale of the 5G C-band rollout fracas earlier this year among the FCC, FAA, NTIA, wireless carriers and the aviation industry. Senate Commerce members focused almost no attention on the issue, which also came up during a Senate Appropriations Transportation Subcommittee hearing last week (see 2204280064). Buttigieg repeatedly backed Senate Commerce members’ calls for legislation to set up a national autonomous vehicle regulatory framework, which has been on the backburner in recent years.

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