The Consumer Technology Association, CTIA and other groups opposed an FCC proposal to update its “covered list” of unsecure companies to reflect a January finding by the Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security on connected vehicles (see 2505270059). Commenters said the FCC should let BIS complete its work before considering revising regulations. FCC Chairman Brendan Carr has long raised concerns about Chinese involvement in U.S. networks and in March launched a Council for National Security at the agency (see 2503130012).

The U.S. filed its opening brief on June 27 in the appeal on the legality of the tariffs imposed under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, arguing that the district court got the jurisdiction and merits questions wrong. The government said the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia took a "nonsensical" view of the Court of International Trade's jurisdiction and that, contrary to the court's ruling, IEEPA does confer tariff-setting authority (Learning Resources v. Donald J. Trump, D.C. Cir. # 25-5202).

Swedish Prime Minister and Moderate Party Leader Ulf Kristersson raised the issue of pausing the implementation of the EU AI Act at last week's European Council meeting in Brussels, his office told us Monday (see 2506250003).

The elimination of federal funding for PBS stations would be a blow to the ATSC 3.0 transition, said commercial and noncommercial broadcasters and advocates for public TV stations and 3.0. The transition would survive the loss of PBS station participation, but removing it from the equation would affect the reach of 3.0 datacasting, emergency communications and the broadcast positioning system (BPS), commercial broadcasters told us.

If Senate opposition pushes hard enough against the AI moratorium proposed by Commerce Committee Chairman Ted Cruz, R-Texas, it could potentially lead to a floor vote on the provision itself, Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., and a Republican Senate staffer told us Monday.

FCC Chairman Brendan Carr said Thursday that he's “open-minded” about the result of the agency’s proceeding on modifying the national broadcast-ownership cap (see 2506180082), while Commissioner Anna Gomez denounced it as “a sweeping effort to tip the scales even further in favor of a handful of powerful corporations.” Gomez said she knows broadcasters are facing economic pressures and the FCC may need to provide relief, “but this is where we need a scalpel, not a chain saw.” Broadcast officials told us that keeping the ownership cap in place only for network-owned stations -- as the public notice suggests -- could make the rule change more vulnerable in court.

The Senate’s AI moratorium proposal won’t impact copyright laws, such as those in Tennessee, Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Ted Cruz, R-Texas, told us Thursday.

The Court of International Trade called on future litigants to address the "various problems of interpretation" posed by the Commerce Department's subassemblies provision in its antidumping duty and countervailing duty orders. In a pair of decisions issued June 25, Judge Timothy Stanceu said the current construction of the provision can lead to "unreasonable, and even absurd, results."

The Court of International Trade called on future litigants to address the "various problems of interpretation" posed by the Commerce Department's subassemblies provision in its antidumping duty and countervailing duty orders. In a pair of decisions issued June 25, Judge Timothy Stanceu said the current construction of the provision can lead to "unreasonable, and even absurd, results."

​​​​​​Importers, led by Simplified, asked the Court of International Trade on June 24 to reconsider its decision to stay the company's suit against the tariffs imposed on China under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act. Simplified said the stay order prevents it from raising its argument that the IEEPA suit actually belongs in a U.S. district court, and not CIT, while the government hasn't shown the "hardship necessary to justify a stay," the brief said (Emily Ley Paper, d/b/a Simplified v. Donald J. Trump, CIT # 25-00096).