Base station (or base radio station) is â according to the International Telecommunication Union's (ITU) Radio Regulations (RR) â a land station in the land mobile service. The term is used in the context of mobile telephony, wireless computer networking and other wireless communications and in land surveying.
C-TPAT is a US government-business initiative that was introduced in 2001. It is designed to strengthen overall supply chain and border security by working in close cooperation with the key members of the supply chain-importers, carriers, brokers, warehouse operators and manufacturers. Businesses must apply to participate in C-TPAT, which can be done via the US Customs website.
Also called trade promotion authority (TPA) since 2002, fast track negotiating authority is a temporary and controversial power granted to the President by Congress. The authority was in effect from 1975 to 1994, pursuant to the Trade Act of 1974, and from 2002 to 2007 by the Trade Act of 2002. Although it expired for new agreements on July 1, 2007, it continued to apply to agreements already under negotiation until they were eventually passed into law in 2011.