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.
Univision Communications adds executives to its streaming team "in preparation for the launch of its two-tiered global platform": Chief Marketing Officer-Streaming Roger Sole, ex-Sprint (now T-Mobile) and more recently formerly WeWork global CMO; Senior Vice President of Development-Streaming Vincenzo Gratteri, ex-Onza Americas; Senior Vice President-Streaming Partnerships Adam Waltuch, from Netflix; and Senior Vice President-Business and Legal Affairs, Streaming Rita Chertorivski, ex-NBCUniversal Telemundo Enterprises.
Trimble adds Dell Technologies Chief Financial Officer Thomas Sweet to its board ... Ingram Micro promotes Paul Bay to CEO to succeed Alain Monie, who transitions to executive chairman; Ingram also promotes Kirk Robinson to executive vice president and president-North America, and elevates Luis Ferez to senior vice president and president-Latin America, adding both to its executive leadership team; Nimesh Dave, executive vice president and president-global cloud, to depart ... Mastercard adds Harit Talwar, from the Goldman Sachs neobank platform Marcus, to its board, effective April 1 ... Analog Devices Technology Fellow Baoxing Chen named a 2022 IEEE Fellow for contributions to the field of integrated signal-power isolation and integrated magnetics ... Gimbal | true[X], connected TV consumer “engagement” platform, hires Lauri Baker from Pause Commercials, also former Discovery and Verizon Media, as senior vice president-partnership strategy ... Ultra-low power tech platform Ambiq announces ex-Aquantia executive Mark Voll as CFO ... Thunderbird Entertainment Group appoints former Archie Comics Publications Vice Chairman Jerome Levy to its board ... Cybersecurity company Red Canary adds Jamf CEO Dean Hager to its board ... Univision Communications adds executives to its streaming team "in preparation for the launch of its two-tiered global platform": Chief Marketing Officer-Streaming Roger Sole, ex-Sprint (now T-Mobile) and more recently the former WeWork's global CMO; Senior Vice President of Development-Streaming Vincenzo Gratteri, ex-Onza Americas; Senior Vice President-Streaming Partnerships Adam Waltuch, from Netflix; and Senior Vice President-Business and Legal Affairs, Streaming Rita Chertorivski, ex-NBCUniversal Telemundo Enterprises.
The FCC wrapped up its comment cycle on the future of the 4.9 GHz band. But industry officials told us further agency action likely isn’t imminent, with issues to wade through before recommending a final approach. Commenters disagreed whether there should be a national framework with a nationwide band manager, though there's general support for expanding use of the band. A question is who other than public safety agencies should be given access.