Garmin Seeks FCC Device Import Order Clarity

Garmin asked for a tweak to the draft order that would let companies market RF devices pending FCC authorization, in conversations with aides to Commissioners Geoffrey Starks and Nathan Simington. Garmin sought “clarification that the draft rule allows manufacturers that distribute products through unaffiliated retailers to take advantage of the proposed pre-sales flexibility by affixing the required temporary labels only to the shrink-wrapped pallet, sealed shipping container, sealed carton, or other enclosure containing multiple units and not to individual units of the product,” said filings posted Thursday (see here and here) in docket 20-382.