Commenters on the Universal Service Fund generally agreed its funding system is unsustainable and in need of changes but disagreed on the solution, in comments posted Friday in docket 21-476 (see 2112220051) as the FCC prepares its report to Congress on the future of USF.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit stayed nine antidumping duty and countervailing duty challenges until a full resolution is reached in another proceeding over whether the Commerce Department can make a particular market situation adjustment to the sales-below cost test. In a series of three orders, the appellate court paused the cases pending resolution of the request for an en banc rehearing in the other case, Hyundai Steel Co. v. U.S.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit’s December decision upholding the FCC’s 6 GHz order firms up the agency’s authority as “the expert agency” on spectrum, said FCC Commissioner Geoffrey Starks during the Fierce Wireless virtual Wi-Fi summit Monday. Other speakers said use of 6 GHz is growing and will be critical to better Wi-Fi.
The European Union and the U.S. resumed trade of molluscan shellfish, which include mussels, clams, oysters and scallops, the European Commission said Feb. 4. Spain and the Netherlands can now ship molluscan shellfish to the U.S. while Massachusetts and Washington state can export the same to the EU under legislation adopted by the EU reflecting this change, the commission said. Trade in live molluscan shellfish was disallowed in 2011 while the FDA and EC sorted through each side's regulatory differences. The deal "shows that our efforts to forge a positive, forward-looking trade agenda with the United States are paying off," EU Trade Commissioner Valdis Dombrovskis said. "Since the EU-US summit in June 2021, we have made several breakthroughs: grounding the Airbus-Boeing dispute, launching the Trade and Technology Council and pausing our steel and aluminium trade dispute. All these achievements, plus this latest resumption of trade in bivalve molluscs, help to create sustainable economic growth and jobs for our workers."
Comprehensive state privacy bills marched forward in Indiana and Washington state. The Indiana Senate passed SB-358 in a unanimous 49-0 vote Tuesday, and a Washington House panel narrowly cleared an amended HB-1850 Wednesday. Elsewhere, a Virginia Senate panel cleared edits to its 2021 law and a Maryland committee heard testimony on a biometrics privacy bill.
Comprehensive state privacy bills marched forward in Indiana and Washington state. The Indiana Senate passed SB-358 in a unanimous 49-0 vote Tuesday, and a Washington House panel narrowly cleared an amended HB-1850 Wednesday. Elsewhere, a Virginia Senate panel cleared edits to its 2021 law and a Maryland committee heard testimony on a biometrics privacy bill.
The deputy U.S. trade representative whose portfolio covers Asia and Africa acknowledged that it may be more challenging to get buy-in from countries for the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework without the carrot of lower U.S. tariffs, but she said corporate support will help negotiators get agreement.
The deputy U.S. trade representative whose portfolio covers Asia and Africa acknowledged that it may be more challenging to get buy-in from countries for the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework without the carrot of lower U.S. tariffs, but she said corporate support will help negotiators get agreement.
SpaceX's pending second-generation satellite constellation application (see 2201110006) should be put in abeyance until the company has a chance to calculate its power levels and provide parties with the input data files for the calculations, Dish Network told the FCC International Bureau last week. It said SpaceX indicated it hadn't done those calculations when it told Dish it was revising its equivalent power flux density data now. "It is inconceivable for the Commission to proceed with evaluating the Gen2 application as amended based on representations that are not based on reality," Dish said. SpaceX didn't comment Friday.
The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals denied a Consumers' Research motion for an extension to file its initial brief in its challenge to the FCC Q4 USF contribution factor as moot, said a letter Friday in case 21-3886 (see 2201130030). Briefing was temporarily held in abeyance until the FCC motion to hold the case in abeyance is resolved, the letter said. An attorney for Consumers' Research didn't comment.