U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said the Trump administration will recommend renewal of USMCA only if 20 issues can be resolved, and maybe more, as he told Congress this isn't an exhaustive list.
The Court of International Trade's recent decision finding that no protests are needed to file suit under Section 1581(i) seeking refunds from tariffs imposed under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act "applies solely to pending court cases at this time," said attorneys at Grunfeld Desiderio. Protests may have to be filed if the Supreme Court strikes down the tariffs and CBP has not taken other steps to effect relief.
The Senate Commerce Committee’s FCC oversight hearing Wednesday remains likely to feature a heavy emphasis on examining commission Chairman Brendan Carr’s media regulatory actions, including his mid-September comments against ABC and parent Disney, which were widely perceived as inciting the network’s since-reversed decision to pull Jimmy Kimmel Live! off the air (see 2509220059). Carr threatened ABC in a podcast interview, saying the network should discipline Kimmel for comments about the reaction to the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk (see 2509170064) or face FCC action.
Texas sued five TV companies for spying on consumers and recording what they watch, the state attorney general's office said Monday. Two of the companies are headquartered in China, which raises additional data-harvesting concerns, Texas AG Ken Paxton (R) said.
The Court of International Trade's recent decision finding that no protests are needed to file suit under Section 1581(i) seeking refunds from tariffs imposed under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act "applies solely to pending court cases at this time," said attorneys at Grunfeld Desiderio. Protests may have to be filed if the Supreme Court strikes down the tariffs and CBP has not taken other steps to effect relief.
Responding to a plywood importer’s motion for rehearing, the U.S. Dec. 12 denied that it had suppressed evidence in “flagrant violation” of a remand order, saying the importer, InterGlobal Forest, had no basis for seeking a rehearing of its case (American Pacific Plywood v. United States, CIT Consol. # 20-03914).
Businesses are working toward compliance with Maryland’s comprehensive privacy law, despite its differences with 19 other states' comprehensive privacy laws, two McNees privacy attorneys said in an interview with Privacy Daily on Monday. Devin Chwastyk, who co-chairs the firm’s privacy and data security group, predicted “the phone will start ringing with more vigor” as the Maryland Online Data Privacy Act’s April 1 “enforcement deadline approaches.” In addition, he said MODPA may signal the end of “cookie-cutter” state privacy bills.
Concerns about whether proposed changes to the GDPR in the European Commission's digital omnibus package could harm data flows between the EU and the U.K. are a "storm in a teacup" aimed at pressuring the EC's proposals, Shoosmiths privacy lawyer Alice Wallbank emailed us Monday.
Texas sued five TV companies for spying on consumers and recording what they watch, the state attorney general's office said Monday. Two of the companies are headquartered in China, which raises additional data-harvesting concerns, Texas AG Ken Paxton (R) said.
The Court of International Trade on Dec. 12 denied the government's motion for reconsideration of the trade court's previous decision to vacate CBP's finding that Dominican exporter Kingtom Aluminio made its aluminum extrusions with forced labor. Although Judge Timothy Reif said he made a mistake of fact in the initial decision, the mistake was a "harmless error," and that no mistake of law was made.