The departments of Homeland Security (DHS), Commerce and Treasury hope their reports on possible incentives to encourage the private sector to adopt voluntary cybersecurity standards will be made public by the end of the month, said Jeanette Manfra, DHS deputy director running the task force implementing President Barack Obama’s Cybersecurity Executive Order, during a Wiley Rein program Wednesday on implementation of that order. Among other things, the order tasks DHS with overseeing the private sector’s implementation of the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s (NIST) forthcoming voluntary Cybersecurity Framework, including implementation of incentives (WID Feb 14 p1). DHS, Commerce and Treasury submitted separate reports to the Office of Management and Budget June 12 that examined the feasibility and effectiveness of possible incentives, but they have not yet been made public while they undergo an internal review (WID July 8 p1).
ICANN could still delay its rollout of new generic top-level domains if security issues will “impact the global DNS,” said ICANN Chief Security Officer Jeff Moss Wednesday at ICANN’s meeting in Durban, South Africa. ICANN has remained committed to a timeline under which new gTLDs will roll out in the beginning of September (WID July 16 p1), but a new security study, the preliminary results of which were released Wednesday, said nearly every applied-for new gTLD could have some potential for an internal name collision. “I'm not going to recommend that we do anything that has any substantial [security, stability and resiliency] impact. It’s not worth the risk,” Moss said. “If there’s something that we find that we think is a showstopper, deadlines will have to move.”
CBP released the agenda for the Aug. 7 meeting with the Advisory Committee on Commercial Operations of U.S. Customs and Border Protection (COAC) in Washington, D.C. CBP also said the meeting will be available online and registration is available (here).
The International Trade Administration issued its quarterly list of (i) completed antidumping and countervailing duty scope rulings and (ii) anticircumvention determinations. The following list covers completed scope and anticircumvention rulings for the period Jan. 1, 2013, through March 31, 2013:
Cased pencils from China exported by Dixon will no longer be subject to antidumping duties, after the Commerce Department found a third consecutive zero AD rate for Dixon in the final results of an administrative review on cased pencils from China (A-570-827), and decided to partially revoke for the company. Entries of cased pencils exported by Dixon will be liquidated without regard to antidumping duties, and they will no longer be subject to a cash deposit requirement. The partial revocation is effective July 18.
Antidumping duty rates are falling to zero for merchandise from 20 companies subject to the AD duty order on diamond sawblades from China (A-570-900), following a correction to the Commerce Department's June 17 final results of 2010-11 administrative review (see 13061421). Commerce's corrected its calculation of Weihai's AD rate, which caused that company's rate to fall to zero. That also resulted in the average AD rate assigned to 17 non-individually reviewed companies falling to zero. Because of the change, period of review entries from all 25 reviewed companies will be liquidated without regard to AD duties, and no cash deposits will be required on entries from these companies until further notice. The new rates are effective June 17, and will be implemented by CBP soon.
As over the top service providers expand their content, they move closer to controlling the programming and how they obtain it, said media and technology executives Tuesday during a Broadband Breakfast Club event in Washington. While there’s more OTT content at reasonable costs, customers still watch content mainly through traditional TV broadcasts, some media executives said.
As over the top service providers expand their content, they move closer to controlling the programming and how they obtain it, said media and technology executives Tuesday during a Broadband Breakfast Club event in Washington. While there’s more OTT content at reasonable costs, customers still watch content mainly through traditional TV broadcasts, some media executives said.
Broadcasters’ appeal to have their case for an injunction against online TV service Aereo reheard by a full panel of judges was denied Tuesday by the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York after a 10-2 vote. The failure of the appeal of denial by a three-judge 2nd Circuit panel of an injunction preventing Aereo from retransmitting TV stations’ content is not unexpected, said several broadcast attorneys and one of the appellants, Fox. The denial likely won’t have much effect on the several remaining court battles involving Aereo and competitor FilmOn, broadcast attorneys told us, though a dissenting opinion from 2nd Circuit Judge Denny Chin could boost future broadcaster appeals. “They can use Chin’s dissent as a roadmap of sorts in formulating their arguments,” said Fletcher Heald’s Harry Cole, who’s not involved in the case. Fox “will now review our options and determine the appropriate course of action, which include seeking a hearing in the U.S. Supreme Court and proceeding to a full trial on the merits of the case,” said the 21st Century Fox subsidiary in a statement.
A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the Commerce Department posted to CBP's website July 16, 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.)