The International Trade Administration (ITA) has issued its preliminary results of the following antidumping (AD) duty administrative reviews:

The International Trade Administration (ITA) has issued its preliminary results of the following antidumping (AD) duty administrative reviews:

American Shipper recently reported that a few weeks before Census was expected to publish its long-awaited regulations for mandatory electronic filing of export information, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) refused to approve the regulations unless two significant changes were made in the Automated Export System (AES). The article states that first, DHS and CBP want Census to either eliminate post-departure filing in AES (Option 4) or substantially increase the requirements for accepting new companies into the program. DHS and CBP also do not want existing post-departure filers simply grandfathered into the mandatory program. Second, the article states that DHS asked Census to make a "National Interest Determination" (NID) to allow sharing of confidential export information with foreign governments. The article also states that CBP wants Census to give it a blanket "NID" to permit sharing of confidential export information with other federal agencies. (American Shipper, dated 04/06, www.americanshipper.com.)

The International Trade Administration (ITA) has issued a notice stating that it is again postponing the preliminary antidumping (AD) duty determinations on certain lined paper products from India and China, to April 7, 2006 (from March 18, 2006).

The ITA has amended the scope of the investigation to state that it has determined that canvas woven and primed in India but cut and stretched in China and exported from China is not subject to the AD duty investigation covering artist canvas from China. Aside from this determination, the scope of the investigation appears to be substantially unchanged since the amended preliminary AD duty determination.

The FCC shouldn’t apply new universal service definitions to rural telcos’ operations as a result of a proceeding involving the Bells and other “non-rural” telcos, rural telcos said. The issue came up in response to an FCC request for comments on how to respond to a remand by the 10th U.S. Appeals Court, Denver, in Qwest v. FCC. The court had questioned definitions the FCC planned to use to decide if the larger firms qualified for high-cost universal service support in some areas. The debate centers on how the FCC defines Telecom Act requirements that universal service support be “sufficient” and “reasonably comparable.”

In its first week available, The Godfather for PS2 from Electronic Arts (EA) was the #1-rented videogame in the U.S., according to Rentrak’s preliminary Home Video Essentials data for the week ended March 26. The Xbox version was #2. It was the only new game in the top 10. EA had 5 other SKUs in the top 10: Black for PS2 at #3 (down 2), Black for Xbox at #4 (down 2), Fight Night Round 3 for PS2 at #5 (down 2), Need for Speed Most Wanted for PS2 at #6 (down 2) and the Xbox version of Fight Night at #9 (down 3).

The Commerce Department's Office of Textiles and Apparel (OTEXA) has posted to its Web site the following five monthly reports containing official January 2006 trade data from the Department of Census for imports and exports of textiles and apparel:

The International Trade Administration (ITA) has issued the final results of two changed circumstances reviews of the countervailing (CV) duty orders on stainless steel sheet and strip in coils from Italy as well as stainless steel plate in coils from Italy. As a result, the ITA is revoking both of these CV duty orders for entries of subject merchandise with a time of entry on or after November 17, 1998 (stainless steel sheet and strip in coils) and September 4,1998 (stainless steel plate in coils).

The International Trade Administration (ITA) has initiated a new shipper review of the antidumping (AD) duty order on certain frozen warmwater shrimp from China with respect to the following company, which is both the producer and exporter, and review period: