An N.C. court told an Ill. telemarketer to stop placing sales calls to N.C. residents because it breaks state laws. Wake County Superior Court’s preliminary injunction against Possibilities Unlimited of Arlington Heights, Ill., marks this year’s biggest victory against telemarketing violators, said state Attorney Gen. Roy Cooper (D). Cooper said his office got hundreds of complaints that the company violated state no-call laws and laws requiring live introductions to prerecorded pitches, disclosing its identity on request and not calling if requested. The AG said the telemarketer was selling credit cards and debt consolidation loans for United Savings of Tacoma, Wash. Cooper wants a permanent ban on the company calling into his state, plus civil damages.
ITU-R gave preliminary approval to a version of WiMAX as a terrestrial radio interface for IMT-2000, the ITU standard for 3G wireless communications, ITU said in a press release. The ITU group, which met this week in Japan, also updated IMT-2000 radio interfaces, established the foundation for IMT-Advanced, and called for additional spectrum for IMT, ITU said: “During 2008 and 2009, there will be an open call for candidates for IMT-Advanced to be submitted to ITU, as well as the start of assessment activities of candidate technologies and systems. Services provided using IMT- Advanced could be commercially available as early as 2011 subject to market demand.”
The International Trade Administration has issued a notice stating that it is postponing the final antidumping duty determinations on lemon juice from Argentina and Mexico until September 10, 2007.
Senators Max Baucus and Chuck Grassley have issued press releases praising the decision of the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) to classify the U.S. as a "controlled risk" country with regard to bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE). In light of the findings, the Senators urged Korea, Japan and China to remove their restrictions on U.S. beef. (Press releases, 05/22/07, available at http://finance.senate.gov/press/Bpress/2007press/prb052207a.pdf and http://finance.senate.gov/press/Gpress/2007/prg052207a.pdf )
The Court of International Trade has ruled that it had no jurisdiction over claims brought by the plaintiffs Native Federation of the Madre de Dios River and Tributaries and the Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc., et. al. related to bigleaf mahogany timber imports from Peru.
The International Trade Administration has issued a notice seeking comments on whether it should consider granting complete or partial market-economy treatment to individual entities for the calculation of normal value in antidumping proceedings involving China, which is considered a non-market economy (NME).
The International Trade Administration has issued a notice announcing that it is revoking the countervailing duty order on low enriched uranium from France pursuant to the ITA's recalculation of the subsidy rate on remand by the Court of International Trade.
The International Trade Administration has issued its preliminary results of the following antidumping duty new shipper reviews:
In its 3rd week available, Activision’s Spider-Man 3 for PS2 was again the #1-rented videogame in the U.S., according to Rentrak’s preliminary Home Video Essentials data for the week ended May 20. The Xbox 360 version was again #2. The only new game in the top 10 was Activision’s Shrek The Third at #7.
The International Trade Administration has issued its final results of the antidumping duty administrative review of certain hot-rolled carbon steel flat products from the Netherlands for the period of November 1, 2004 through October 31, 2005.