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Manufacturing activity in the New York region expanded this month, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York said Wednesday.

The consumer price index rose 0.1% in November, the Labor Department said Wednesday.

The World Trade Organization rejected China’s complaint that U.S. tariffs on Chinese car and light-truck tires violate global trade rules, Bloomberg reported.

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration said Monday its Compliance Safety and Accountability system, which measures carriers’ safety records, is now live.

A federal appeals court has denied a request by several industry groups to delay full implementation of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s CSA (Compliance Safety and Accountability) monitoring system.

A shipper group has expressed “profound disappointment” over a so-called fact-finding investigation by the Federal Maritime Commission into numerous U.S. importer and exporter complaints about “perceived malpractices” by ocean carriers that resulted in supply-chain service disruptions and rate and surcharge increases in late 2009 and 2010.

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has issued new rules that will require brokers working with household goods movers to provide more information to consumers.

The status of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s plan to release carrier safety information through the Compliance Safety and Accountability program remained uncertain at press time because an appeals court had not ruled on a motion to halt the move.

The Idaho Transportation Department scheduled hearings late last week on whether to issue overweight, oversize transport permits for four massive loads of refinery equipment after a state administrative law judge nullified permits the state had issued to ConocoPhillips Co. in October.