The FCC’s top telecom priorities include the components of Chairman Brendan Carr’s “Build America Agenda,” stabilizing USF and deregulation, agency Chief of Staff Scott Delacourt said. NTIA Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary Adam Cassady said finishing BEAD "is job one," but other tasks include space policy revisions and identifying spectrum for commercialization. The two spoke Monday at Technology Policy Institute’s annual Aspen Forum.
Applied Materials, the largest American semiconductor equipment supplier, is expecting a drop in its China sales due to uncertainty around U.S. export controls and its high volume of pending license applications, executives said last week.
The export licensing pauses and delays since the Trump administration took over in January are in conflict with the president’s stated goal of boosting American exports and opening new markets for U.S. companies, said Ron Kirk, a former U.S. trade representative.
It’s crunch time for the California legislature, with many privacy and AI bills nearing the finish line as lawmakers return from summer recess Monday. A few of the most potentially impactful measures for businesses cover universal opt-out preference signals, location privacy, automated decisions and so-called surveillance pricing, said privacy lawyers and consumer advocates in interviews with Privacy Daily this week.
De Minimis Phase-Out Potentially Will Divert Resources, Create More Work for Customs, Port Exec Says
The end of de minimis at the end of August (see 2507300046) could not only result in longer transit times, it also could mean the diversion of resources to customs work, the executive director of the Port of Los Angeles said during the port's monthly media briefing on Aug. 13.
The American Apparel and Footwear Association thanked the Trump administration's suspension of higher tariff rates on China, but said the measure only keeps American companies and consumers "stuck in the same holding pattern" since President Donald Trump's "Liberation Day" tariffs were announced.
President Donald Trump will extend to November the deadline for tariffs on Chinese goods that were due to come into effect at midnight Aug. 12, multiple news outlets have reported.
Thompson Hine trade lawyer Dan Ujczo, who has expertise in North American trade and, particularly, automotive trade in the USMCA region, said the way the carve-outs to 25% Section 232 tariffs have been shaking out has surprised him -- and, he believes, has surprised countries that are automaking powerhouses.
Under fire from FCC Chairman Brendan Carr for its supposed warehousing of its AWS-4 spectrum, EchoStar unveiled a $5 billion plan Friday for a direct-to-device satellite constellation using that spectrum. CEO Hamid Akhavan said the low earth orbit (LEO) constellation would start commercial service in 2029 and provide a 5G level of service to mobile devices.
Ending the collection of biennial ownership data through Form 323 would eliminate virtually the only source of information about broadcast-ownership diversity, several civil rights and public interest groups told us. The FCC Media Bureau on Tuesday announced an 18-month pause on collecting Form 323 and seemed to indicate that the requirement to submit the data will be permanently deleted (see 2507300070). Halting Form 323 collection would be “yet another structural policy decision to brush civil rights under the rug, to obscure discrimination in the broadcast industry,” said Free Press co-CEO Jessica Gonzalez in an email. “It's a shameful and brazen dereliction of the FCC's duty to serve all Americans.”