New Products: Recent channel checks among retailers indicated that Electronic Arts’s NCAA Football 06 for PS2 and Xbox and Battlefield 2 for PC, plus Nintendo’s Pokemon Emerald for Game Boy Advance and Kirby Canvas Curse for DS, are among the best-selling titles now, Southwest Securities analyst Arvind Bhatia said in a research note Thurs… Midway Games said it plans to ship the budget- priced Rampage: Total Destruction for PS2 and GameCube at $19.95 in spring 2006… The Adventure Co. said it plans to ship Agatha Christie: And Then There Were None, based on the novel of the same name by Christie, for PC in Nov… Logitech said it is adding the G7 Laser Cordless Mouse and G5 Laser Mouse to its line of G-series gaming mice in Sept. at $99.99 and $69.99, respectively. The company also plans to ship the G15 keyboard for PC gaming in Oct. at $79.99… Noreve shipped leather cases for Sony’s PSP in Europe at 55.90 ($71.91 at $1= 0.841) and
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has issued a general notice which states that entry summaries cannot be flagged for Reconciliation to account for latent manufacturing defects discovered after importation.
Advance data released Thurs. by Intelsat link the IS 804 satellite failure in Jan. to a design flaw that may affect all Lockheed Martin 7000 Series satellites. It will be Sept. before the joint Failure Review Board (FRB) commissioned by Intelsat and Lockheed Martin finishes its inquiry, but Intelsat officials said they think the FRB is far enough along in its work to release preliminary findings on why IS 804 had a “sudden and unexpected electrical power system anomaly” in Jan. that resulted in the total loss of the satellite.
The International Trade Administration (ITA) has issued its final results of the antidumping (AD) duty administrative reviews of stainless steel bar from France and Italy for the period of March 1, 2003 through February 29, 2004.
The number of Americans employed by ISPs, search engines and data processing companies dropped almost 2,800 from June to July, according to preliminary figures from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. But the approximately 390,000 is still well ahead of this time last year.
The International Trade Administration (ITA) has issued its preliminary results of the following antidumping (AD) duty administrative reviews for the period of July 1, 2003 through June 30, 2004:
The Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements (CITA) has posted to its web site updated preliminary textile and apparel import data for 2005, which now covers the 2005 period from late April 2005 through July 16, 2005.
The International Trade Administration (ITA) has initiated new shipper reviews for the antidumping (AD) duty order on honey from China with respect to the following exporters/producers and review period:
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has issued a general notice that announces changes in its National Customs Automation Program (NCAP) test concerning periodic monthly deposit of estimated duties and fees.
The International Trade Administration (ITA) has issued its preliminary results of the following antidumping (AD) duty administrative and new shipper reviews: