CBP announced Aug. 2 that it had made preliminary selections for five new partnerships towards expanded services at domestic ports of entry. The 2013 Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act allows CBP “to create a reimbursable fee agreement program to increase CBP’s ability to provide new or enhanced services on a reimbursable basis by creating partnerships with five entities,” the agency said. CBP’s selected entities for the partnerships include El Paso, Texas; the Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport; South Texas Assets Consortium; Houston Airport System; and Miami-Dade County.
VeriSign is convinced “things will break” if new generic top-level domains are delegated, Chief Security Officer Danny McPherson told us. But its certainty has the NTIA worried that the company will fail to uphold its obligation to delegate new gTLDs when necessary. In a Friday letter to VeriSign, NTIA said it “fully expects VeriSign to process change requests when it receives an authorization to delegate a new gTLD” (http://bit.ly/16vfjEu). The letter, which ICANN published Saturday, asked VeriSign for written confirmation in the next two weeks that VeriSign will launch the new gTLDs when asked. VeriSign, which operates the A root server, is under contract with NTIA to process changes to the root NTIA asks it to process. NTIA receives requests for changes from ICANN through its Internet Assigned Numbers Authority.
The Cybersecurity Act of 2013 (S-1353) passed the Senate Commerce Committee with broad industry support just prior to the August recess; the bill would authorize the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to focus on cybersecurity, including its ongoing work with industry to develop a voluntary cybersecurity framework (CD July 31 p1).
A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the Commerce Department posted to CBP's website Aug. 2, along with the case number(s) and CBP message number, is provided below. The messages are available by searching for the listed CBP message number at addcvd.cbp.gov. (CBP occasionally adds backdated messages without otherwise indicating which message was added. ITT will include a message date in parentheses in such cases.)
The Cybersecurity Act of 2013 (S-1353) passed the Senate Commerce Committee with broad industry support just prior to the August recess; the bill would authorize the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to focus on cybersecurity, including its ongoing work with industry to develop a voluntary cybersecurity framework (WID July 31 p4).
The Commerce Department issued the final results of the countervailing duty administrative review on drill pipe from China (C-570-966). The agency set a CV cash deposit rate of 5.07 percent for Shanxi Yida Special Steel Imp. & Exp. Co., Ltd., and its cross-owned affiliates Shanxi Yida Special Steel Group Co., Ltd., and Shanxi Yida Petroleum Equipment Manufacturing Co., Ltd. This rate is effective Aug. 5.
A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the Commerce Department posted to CBP's website July 31, along with the case number(s) and CBP message number, is provided below. The messages are available by searching for the listed CBP message number at addcvd.cbp.gov. (CBP occasionally adds backdated messages without otherwise indicating which message was added. ITT will include a message date in parentheses in such cases.)
The Commerce Department published notices in the Aug. 1 Federal Register on the following AD/CV duty proceedings (any notices that announce changes to AD/CV duty rates, scope, affected firms, or effective dates will be detailed in another ITT article):
The FCC should release information on the spectrum incentive auction repacking before it has a finished proposal, the NAB told aides to acting Chairwoman Mignon Clyburn in a meeting last week, according to an ex parte filing (http://bit.ly/130Osf7) released Tuesday. “The commission would be best served if they were more transparent and engaged more directly with outside stakeholders,” said the ex parte. Though the commission released information about the repacking process earlier this month (CD July 23 p15), “no one outside the commission or its contractors has any information” on the repacking model or a timeline for its release, said NAB. Public and ex parte conversations about the model might help “identify problems and concerns up front, rather than waiting for a final output that may require significant after-the-fact revision,” NAB said. The association also urged the commission to reveal similar preliminary information about the cross-border coordination with Canada and Mexico.
Acting FCC Chairwoman Mignon Clyburn circulated among her fellow commissioners a rulemaking notice on outage reporting that’s expected to be controversial, said agency and public safety officials. CTIA has been at the commission in recent weeks asking that the FCC instead release a notice of inquiry, as a preliminary step before an NPRM. The association also complained that keeping track of the number of towers taken out in a disaster is the wrong metric to measure.