The Court of International Trade on April 17 said that after the Commerce Department decided to continue an antidumping duty investigation on Mexican tomatoes initially paused in 1996, it must use the original investigation period, 1995-96, and not the later period of 2018-19. Judge Jennifer Choe-Groves ruled that the statute and congressional intent are clear that when Commerce resumes a suspended AD investigation, it must stick with the original investigation period.
Possibly facing the end of the federal affordable connectivity program (ACP), the California Public Utilities Commission should quickly modify grant rules to ensure service stays affordable, said The Utility Reform Network in petitions Friday and Monday. “We don’t have the luxury of time here,” said TURN Telecom Policy Analyst Leo Fitzpatrick in an interview Monday. The state cable association slammed TURN’s proposals. But the California Emerging Technology Fund (CETF), a group that has led efforts to sign up low-income Californians for ACP, supports having “another opportunity to discuss the imperative for California to have a back-up plan to replace the” federal program, said CEO Sunne Wright McPeak in an email Monday.
The Bureau of Industry and Security remains months away from resolving a temporary pause in new firearm export licenses that was supposed to expire in January, the National Shooting Sports Foundation said this week.
The Biden administration’s pause on pending decisions for liquefied natural gas exports has forced an LNG project in Port Arthur, Texas, to suspend its expansion plans, jeopardizing thousands of local jobs, Rep. Randy Weber, R-Texas, said April 5.
The House is drafting a national security supplemental appropriations bill that could include a provision to seize frozen Russian assets in the U.S. and transfer the money to Ukraine, Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., said March 31.
House Oversight Committee Chairman Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., and two other Republican lawmakers have asked Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm to provide documents, communications and a staff-level briefing to help them understand the Energy Department’s role in the Biden administration’s temporary pause on pending decisions for liquefied natural gas exports. In a letter last week, the lawmakers said they’re concerned the pause will damage U.S. national security and energy security and that it may have been made for political reasons. The administration announced the pause in January (see 2401260070), saying it wants to review criteria for approving LNG projects, including the impact on climate change.
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The auto industry is grappling with a range of questions about how the EU’s upcoming forced labor-related rules will affect their supply chains, especially for individual car components, an auto industry official and lawyer said this week.
The auto industry is grappling with a range of questions about how the EU’s upcoming forced labor-related rules will affect their supply chains, especially for individual car components, an auto industry official and lawyer said this week.
Four Republican senators urged the Biden administration March 18 to end its temporary pause on pending decisions for liquefied natural gas exports, saying the halt has created "serious doubts" among allies about the reliability of U.S. fuel supplies.