Ten Democrats on the House Ways and Means Committee introduced a bill that would forbid the president from using the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, or IEEPA, to impose tariffs or quotas on imports.
The U.S. government should create a joint interagency task force led by the national security adviser to develop better ways to prevent China from obtaining sensitive dual-use technology from the U.S. and its allies, a bipartisan congressionally mandated commission said Nov. 19.
Consumer complaints about unwanted telemarketing calls have declined more than 50% since 2021, the FTC said in its national Do Not Call Registry data book released Friday. "Illegal calls remain a scourge, but the FTC's strategy to pursue upstream players and equip the agency to confront emerging threats is showing clear signs of success," said Sam Levine, director-Bureau of Consumer Protection. The FTC said it received about 1.1 million complaints about robocalls in FYB 2024, down 1.2 million from the previous year. Complaints about calls related to debt-reduction, though, increased more than 85% from last year.
The facilitator of the World Trade Organization's e-commerce work program called for members to submit their views on a work plan to structure talks on e-commerce between now and the 14th Ministerial Conference, which will take place in early 2026, with the goal of presenting recommendations at MC14, the WTO said.
The following are short summaries of recent CBP NY rulings issued by the agency's National Commodity Specialist Division in New York:
The federal government should financially support the growth of data centers in the U.S., telecom and tech groups said last week in comments to NTIA. Meanwhile, an Amazon workers' organization urged that NTIA should be aware of data centers' carbon footprint and skeptical about industry’s environmental impact assessments.
The FCC’s draft order on creating a standardized process for authorizing content-originating FM boosters necessary for geotargeted radio ads is expected to be unanimously approved during the commissioners' Nov. 21 open meeting, industry and agency officials told us.
Trade attorneys continue to wait and wonder what kind of tariff changes will come next year, with one observer using a tariff slide that said "Tariff Armageddon."
The following are short summaries of recent CBP NY rulings issued by the agency's National Commodity Specialist Division in New York:
A commercial in-space servicing industry -- long discussed -- is coming, but when remains a big question mark, Chris Blackerby, Astroscale chief operating officer, said Wednesday. Speaking at the annual Consortium for Execution of Rendezvous and Servicing Operations (CONFERS) conference in Arlington, Virginia, he said there's demand for such services in geostationary orbit but not to expect a market for in-space servicing in low earth orbit anytime soon. Blackerby said governments are the likely customers for in-space servicing in the near term, though eventually the bulk of the marketplace will be commercial operators contracting for services. Mark Quinn, head of insurance broker Willis Towers' space division, said some space insurers no longer provide coverage after a spate of huge claims during the past two years.