Panasonic has joined the high-level talks with Sony and Toshiba aimed at unifying the Blu-ray and HD DVD systems and averting an all-out format war, Consumer Electronics Daily has learned from sources familiar with the discussions.
The International Trade Administration (ITA) has made a preliminary partial affirmative determination that critical circumstances exist for imports of chlorinated isocyanurates from China for Shanghai Tian Yuan International Trading Co., Ltd. (Tian Yuan, one of five section A respondents), and the China-entity.
Take-Two Interactive had one of its strongest recent showings on the U.S. videogame rental market in the week ended April 17 (see chart, this issue). Rentrak’s preliminary Home Video Essentials data showed the publisher had 4 SKUs in the top 10, including Midnight Club 3: Dub Edition on its Rockstar Games label at #1. The Xbox version followed at #2. Rockstar’s Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas continued to be strong, at #4. In its first week, the Xbox game Close Combat: First To Fight on the company’s Global Star Software label was #7.
The Commerce Department's Office of Textiles and Apparel (OTEXA) has posted to its Web site the following five monthly reports containing official February 2005 trade data from the Department of Census for imports and exports of textiles and apparel:
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has issued a report entitled, U.S.-China Trade: Textile Safeguard Procedures Should be Improved.
The International Trade Commission (ITC) has issued a press release on its final negative antidumping (AD) and countervailing (CV) injury determinations stating that the U.S. industry is neither materially injured nor threatened with material injury by reason of imports of bottle-grade polyethylene terephthalate (PET) resin from India, Indonesia and Thailand which the International Trade Administration (ITA) has determined are sold in the U.S. at less than fair value, or by reason of imports of bottle-grade PET resin from India which the ITA has determined are subsidized.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has issued its weekly quota commodity report as of April 18, 2005. This report includes tariff-rate quotas (TRQs) on various products such as beef, tuna, sugar, dairy products, peanuts, cotton, cocoa powder, tobacco, certain JFTA, NAFTA, SFTA, UAFTA and UCFTA TRQs, etc. This report also includes the AGOA, ATPDEA, CBTPA, NAFTA, SFTA, and UCFTA tariff preference levels (TPLs) for qualifying apparel and/or other textile articles, the TRQs on worsted wool fabrics, etc. (CBP's weekly quota commodity report, dated 04/18/05, available at http://www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/import/textiles_and_quotas/commodity/)
The Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements (CITA) has previously indicated that if it imposes a safeguard quota on a China category, merged category, or part category, it will be set at a level equal to the amount entered during the first 12 months of the most recent 14 months preceding the month of implementation1, plus 7.5% (6% for wool product categories).
The International Trade Administration (ITA) has issued the final results of its antidumping (AD) duty administrative review of honey from Argentina for the period of December 1, 2002 through November 30, 2003.
The International Trade Administration (ITA) has published in the April 15, 2005 Federal Register, its antidumping (AD) duty orders on magnesium metal from China and Russia. The ITA also states that the International Trade Commission (ITC) has made a final negative critical circumstances determination with respect to subject merchandise from China (thereby reversing the ITA's affirmative critical circumstances finding).