The International Trade Administration frequently issues notices on antidumping and countervailing duty orders, investigations, etc. which Broker Power considers to be "minor" in importance as they concern actions that occur after an order is issued, neither announce nor cause any changes to an order's duty rates, scope, affected firms, or effective period, etc.

The International Trade Administration has issued its final results of the antidumping duty administrative review of certain welded carbon steel pipe and tube from Turkey for the period of May 1, 2007 through April 30, 2008.

The National Customs Brokers & Freight Forwarders' Association has filed an amicus curiae brief at the Court of International Trade in Lizarraga Customs Broker v. Customs and Border Protection ,et al.

Imation and seven other companies are infringing two Toshiba DVD patents because they make or market recordable DVD products without a license from Toshiba or the DVD6C patent pool, of which Toshiba is a member, Toshiba alleges in suit filed Thursday. Its complaint, filed in U.S. District Court, Madison, Wis., also names Advanced Media, CMC Magnetics, Glyphics Media, Hotan, Khypermedia, Moser Baer and Ritek as defendants. It seeks a preliminary injunction and unspecified damages for violation of patents 5,708,651, issued January 1998, and 5,892,751, issued April 1999. “Imation is fully indemnified for patent infringement by our DVD suppliers who are named in the complaint,” a spokeswoman said. “We are confident that our suppliers will defend and indemnify us against Toshiba’s claims. “We expect no disruption in our ability to supply DVDs to our customers.”

The International Trade Administration has determined to reinstate the antidumping duty order on certain hot-rolled carbon steel flat products from Thailand for Sahaviriya Steel Industries Public Company Limited (SSI) for the review period of July 1, 2006 through June 30, 2007, pursuant to the final results of its AD changed circumstances review.

RealNetworks declared its RealDVD technology for copying discs as good as dead. It’s the victim of what the company called a conspiracy by the big Hollywood studios to exploit for themselves consumers’ desire for virtual copies of the discs they've bought, the company said in an antitrust countersuit filed Wednesday. Even if the studios and the DVD Copy Control Association fail in court efforts to keep RealDVD off the market, “RealNetworks will most certainly not be able to successfully execute a ’third’ publicly acclaimed launch of RealDVD after having been tainted with the mislabel of an illegal product following two aborted launches,” said the filing in U.S. District Court in San Francisco.

RealNetworks declared its RealDVD technology for copying discs as good as dead. It’s the victim of what the company called a conspiracy by the big Hollywood studios to exploit for themselves consumers’ desire for virtual copies of the discs they've bought, the company said in an antitrust countersuit filed Wednesday.

Japan wants to revise ITU-R working text on mobile wireless access systems providing communications to a large number of ubiquitous sensors and/or actuators into a preliminary draft new recommendation. That’s according to its submission to next week’s meeting of a working party on the land mobile service. The need to link sensors and actuators in wide areas is growing, the text said. It was referring to environmental monitoring, stolen goods tracing, gas, water, and electricity use monitoring, social security and health care. But large service and platform markets are not fully developed because wireless sensor networks cover only limited areas, the text said. High equipment costs also keeps large markets underdeveloped, it said. A new wireless access system may need to be considered, it said. A large number of low-end terminals need to be supported, the text said, suggesting ten times the population or more than 1 billion terminals in Japan. Secure connections are needed everywhere and anytime on a cell-based wireless system, the text said.

Regulatory implications of cognitive radio systems should be discussed next week at an ITU-R working party meeting on mobile service, said Nokia and Nokia Siemens Networks in a joint proposal. The discussion is aimed at developing preliminary text for a ITU-R recommendation on cognitive radio systems in the land mobile service, the proposal said. The companies said six areas should be discussed: (1) identification of suitable bands; (2) a pilot channel for initial access; (3) a global regulatory framework; (4) technical approaches for efficient and flexible use of spectrum; (5) deployment of cognitive radio systems in land mobile service; (6) key parameters and their ranges such as power level and out-of-band emission.

The Office of Textiles and Apparel has posted to its Web site monthly reports containing official March 2009 trade data from the Census Department for U.S. imports and exports of textiles and apparel.