The inability of CBP to stop all goods made with Uyghur forced labor was one of the focuses of a trade hearing hosted on Staten Island by the House Ways and Means Committee, and when committee Chairman Jason Smith, R-Mo., asked a witness what more could be done to crack down, Uyghur activist Nury Turkel said the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act should be expanded to cover all of China.

Top Republican leaders on the House and Senate Commerce committees want the FCC's Office of Inspector General to review the commission's management of broadband money it received during the COVID-19 pandemic, saying in a Monday letter to acting IG Sharon Diskin "it's important to understand" the affordable connectivity program's "record to date" as they decide whether to back extending its life. They are seeking answers by June 1. The request came before two congressional hearings later this week on federal broadband spending and may provide further insight into whether there’s a consensus for making legislative changes to existing programs.

The Commerce Department applied a more lenient standard to antidumping duty petitioner Nucor Tubular Products by accepting a correction to a ministerial error that was raised only after the final results in the 2018-19 administrative review of the AD order on heavy walled rectangular welded steel pipes and tubes from Mexico was issued, respondent Maquilacero argued in comments to the Court of International Trade on Commerce's remand results accepting the correction (Nucor Tubular Products v. U.S., CIT # 21-00543).

YouTube’s users can watch and listen to music videos for free on its ad-supported service, but those users don’t get access to the digital files “that contain the record companies’ valuable copyrighted works,” said the Recording Industry Association of America. RIAA filed its answering brief Thursday (docket 22-2760) in Yout’s 2nd Circuit appeal of the district court’s dismissal of its action for a declaratory judgment that its software platform wasn't a circumvention tool under Section 1201 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (see 2302030005|).

Top Republican leaders on the House and Senate Commerce committees want the FCC's Office of Inspector General to review the commission's management of broadband money it received for the affordable connectivity program during the COVID-19 pandemic, saying in a letter to acting IG Sharon Diskin we obtained ahead of its Monday release that "it's important to understand" ACP's "record to date" as they decide whether to back extending its life. They seek answers by June 1. The request came ahead of a Wednesday House Commerce Oversight Subcommittee hearing that will be the panel's first specific foray into what’s expected to be a more critical look at recent broadband spending now that Republicans have the chamber majority.

A private equity firm is accusing AT&T of not viewing it “as a serious or qualified buyer because of its African American ownership and management.”

Meta should be banned from monetizing children’s data, the FTC said Wednesday, claiming the company violated its 2020 privacy order with the agency.

The chairman and ranking member of the House Select Committee on China wrote to Adidas and Nike, telling them they were told by a witness that they source material from Xinjiang for their products, and to Shein and Temu, asking them questions about their use of de minimis, and, in the case of Shein, asking it to share all its cotton DNA test results with the committee.

California’s connections-based method “is directly at odds” with the FCC’s revenue-based mechanism for USF contribution, T-Mobile and subsidiaries argued at the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. In an opening brief Monday, they urged the court to reverse a U.S. District Court for Northern California decision and direct the lower court to issue a preliminary injunction against the California Public Utilities Commission decision that took effect April 1.

The first step of OneWeb's two-part requested modification of its U.S. market access grant (see 2111050001), with slightly fewer satellites, was approved, but the second step, which would mean thousands more, is on hold, the FCC Space Bureau said in an order in Monday's Daily Digest. It said reducing the number of approved satellites in phase one from 720 to 716 doesn't raise spectrum availability concerns and won't materially affect competition in the U.S. It deferred acting on phase two, which would expand OneWeb's system to 6,372 satellites, and doesn't address phase two in the order.