GENEVA -- Global business, law enforcement and customs agencies are mobilizing to fight piracy that’s becoming ever more sophisticated and infiltrating legitimate supply chains, officials said during a counterfeiting and piracy conference here Tues.
GENEVA -- Global business, law enforcement and customs agencies are mobilizing to fight piracy that’s becoming ever more sophisticated and infiltrating legitimate supply chains, officials said during a counterfeiting and piracy conference here Tues.
New Games: Capcom’s Lost Planet: Extreme Condition for Xbox 360 moved up 4 in its 2nd week available to become the #1-rented videogame in the U.S., according to Rentrak preliminary Home Video Essentials data for the week ended Jan. 21. Microsoft’s 360 game Gears of War -- the previous week’s #1 title -- slipped to #3 in its 11th week. There were no new games in the top 10… Majesco Entertainment will ship Toon-Doku, developed by Dragon’s Den Unlimited, in April.
The Journal of Commerce Online reports that shippers and port officials have told Washington state lawmakers that they oppose a proposal for a $50-per-TEU fee on containers moving through Washington state ports. (JoC Online dated 01/25/07, www.joc.com.)
The International Trade Administration (ITA) has initiated an antidumping (AD) duty changed circumstances review of the AD duty order on wooden bedroom furniture from China, to determine whether Tradewinds Furniture Ltd. (Tradewinds Furniture) and Tradewinds International Enterprise Ltd. (Tradewinds International) are successors-in-interest to Nanhai Jiantai Woodwork Co. (Nanhai Jiantai) and its affiliated exporter, Fortune Glory Industrial Limited Co. (Fortune Glory).
Italy’s Pirelli is open to selling some or all of its stake in Telecom Italia parent Olimpia, Pirelli told reporters Fri. The real-estate empire has talked with potential buyers of various amounts of its 80% stake, but none were “even of a preliminary nature,” it said.
New Games: Capcom shipped more than a million units each of the Xbox 360 games Lost Planet: Extreme Condition and Dead Rising, it said… Microsoft’s 360 game Gears of War was again the #1-rented videogame in the U.S., according to Rentrak’s preliminary Home Video Essentials data for the week ended Jan. 14. But the only new game in the top 10 was Lost Planet, at #5. The latter game was also again the most- requested videogame for online rental service GameFly, according to its data for the week ended Jan. 15.
The International Trade Administration (ITA) has issued its final results of the antidumping (AD) duty administrative review of granular polytetrafluoroethylene resin from Italy for the period of August 1, 2004 through July 31, 2005.
The International Trade Administration (ITA) has issued its final results of the antidumping (AD) duty administrative review of polyethylene retail carrier bags from Thailand for the period of January 26, 2004 through July 31, 2005.
The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) has issued a notice announcing the product and country practice petitions that are accepted for further review in the 2006 Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) Annual Review, and setting forth the schedule for comments and public hearing on these petitions.