LONG OVERDUE — A large coalition of trade groups and tech companies on
Thursday urged Senate leaders to pass a bill that would rename the DHS cyber
wing to something more logical. Currently, the wing is called the National
Protection and Programs Directorate. H.R. 3359 , which passed the House in December, would rename it to the
Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. "Advancing this
legislation in the Senate would be a win for policymakers, industry, and our
communities," the groups — including the American Gas Association, CTIA,
the Cybersecurity Coalition, the Information Technology Industry Council,
TechNet and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce — told Senate Majority Leader Mitch
McConnell and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer in a letter .
"The bill would foster stronger public-private partnerships to better
address cyber risks that could jeopardize America's national security and
economic prosperity." The organizations said they hoped the Senate would
"swiftly" pass the bill, though they added that they would
"support the addition of provisions to ensure that CISA's processes to
engage the private sector are robust and transparent." [POLITICO's Morning
Cybersecurity, July 27, 2018]
Touting numbers he does not understand [4.1%
quarterly growth], on a topic he does not understand [economy], #BenedictDonald
continues to lie his way across the landscape. And, speaking of lying, his
former lawyer/fixer, Michael Cohen, is really laying it on thick to the
Liar-In-Chief now! [Trump knew of the June 9th meeting in Trump Tower
before it happened.] [Norman Goldman, July 27, 2018]
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Scorching heat waves, wildfires, and
devastating floods across the globe are no longer weather anomalies but
part of the new normal thanks to global warming, scientists say. “The old
records belong to a world that no longer exists,” Martin Hoerling, a
research meteorologist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration, told The
Washington Post on Thursday. Numerous cities that had
previously been immune to sweltering heat waves experienced the effects of
climate change this summer, including a snowy region just north of the
Arctic Circle in Finland that recorded a temperature of 90 degrees earlier
this month. In Greece and Japan, record-breaking temperatures claimed
dozens of lives. And in the U.S., at least 35 weather stations set new
records for warm overnight temperatures in the past month. Scientists say
the temperatures will only keep increasing, and extreme weather events will
only become more catastrophic as the burning of fossil fuels injects more greenhouse
gases into the atmosphere.
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INDIA GETS BETTER EXPORT
CONTROL TREATMENT: India will now be treated on par with NATO countries and
close allies in Asia when it comes to export control regulations. Commerce
Secretary Wilbur Ross announced New Delhi will now be eligible for the Commerce
Department's Strategic Trade Authorization license exception, easing regulatory
burdens on potentially billions worth of U.S. military exports.
"It's a very elevated status from an
export control point of view," Ross said at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's
Indo-Pacific Business Forum. "It's because India has partnered with us to
improve its own export control regimes and has met most of the multilateral
export rules that we think are useful. If finally reflects India's status as a
major defense partner of the U.S."
The STA license exception was created as part
of the major overhaul of U.S. export control rules started by the Obama administration.
The designation allows much of the thousands of less-sensitive military parts
and components that were shifted to Commerce jurisdiction to be shipped to
India without the required export license. [Morning Trade, July 31, 2018]
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MARK YOUR CALENDARS: EU OFFICIALS COMING TO TOWN: Just under a month after Trump and European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker pledged to put a halt to the trade war and work to resolve their trade differences through negotiation, EU officials are headed to Washington to get started. Commission spokesperson Mina Andreeva said Wednesday that "on the 20th of August the trade adviser of President Juncker and a senior EU trade official will travel to Washington, D.C., to meet various counterparts" and work on liberalizing trade between both economies.
THE WTO RISK IN TRUMP'S FARMER AID APPROACH: As the U.S. gears up for talks with the EU, Trump's highly controversial decision to offset farmers' tariff-induced financial losses creates a policy contradiction: The White House is preparing to pay out new subsidies to American ag producers at the same time it says it is working with Brussels to eliminate all tariffs, subsidies and non-tariff barriers across the Atlantic.
And former U.S. agriculture officials warn that the farmer aid plan could potentially push farm subsidies beyond their WTO limits, Pro Trade's Doug Palmer reports. [Politico's Morning Trade, August 10, 2018]
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