The International Trade Administration (ITA) has initiated new shipper reviews for the antidumping (AD) duty order on freshwater crawfish tail meat from China with respect to the following exporters and review period:
The Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements (CITA) has issued a notice announcing that it has resumed its consideration of whether to implement safeguard quotas based on "threat of" market disruption for China-origin textiles and apparel in the following individual or merged categories:
The International Trade Administration (ITA) has issued its preliminary results of two antidumping (AD) changed circumstances reviews for (1) carbon and certain alloy steel wire rod from Trinidad and Tobago, and (2) polyethylene terephthalate (PET) film, sheet and strip from India.
The International Trade Administration (ITA) has issued its preliminary results of two antidumping (AD) duty changed circumstances reviews for (1) certain cut-to-length carbon steel plate from Romania, and (2) carbon and certain alloy steel wire rod from Canada.
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 January to April 23rd.
Domain-name registry and registrar members of 3 ICANN Whois task forces rejected a recommendation aimed at giving registrants better notice of and consent for use of contact data in the Whois database. The recommendation, by Whois Task Forces 1 and 2 of the Generic Names Supporting Organization (GNSO), would require registrars to: (1) Ensure that disclosures about the availability of and 3rd-party access to personal data associated with domain names “actually be presented” to registrants during registration. “Linking to an external web page is not sufficient.” (2) Obtain separate acknowledgement from registrants that they've read and understood the disclosures. (3) Make sure disclosures are set aside from other registration agreement provisions if given to registrants with that agreement. Disclosure wording should be as uniform as feasible. The proposal, was voted on April 19 by all 3 Whois task forces. Constituencies in favor included Commercial & Business Users, Intellectual Property, Noncommercial Users, and ISPs and Connectivity Providers. Registrar members of the combined group said the recommendations, if adopted as policy rather than as suggestions, would destabilize the registration process by making it less simple and transparent. They also said adding a new and separate acknowledgment process would be cumbersome and impractical. Registry members said adopting the recommendation as proposed wouldn’t significantly affect their constituency, but its negative impact on registrars “would make registry-registrar relationships more difficult, and the increased cost of compliance with a complex and unnecessary policy would make the use of domain names less desirable.” Both constituencies agreed registrants deserve better notification on a voluntary basis. Comments on the combined Whois task force preliminary report on the recommendation are due May 12 -- gnso-whois-tf- rpt@icann.org.
The International Trade Administration (ITA) has initiated an antidumping (AD) duty investigation of certain artist canvas from China.
EBay reached a preliminary settlement in a consolidated shareholder suit, the firm said Thurs. Several eBay officers and directors were accused of purchasing allocations of shares in initial public offerings that should have been made available to eBay. The shares in question were underwritten by Goldman Sachs. The settlement, submitted to the U.S. Dist. Court, Wilmington, Del., would set up a $3.395 million kitty funded by eBay’s chairman, CEO, a former vice president and Goldman Sachs. The company would give 1/2 the net proceeds to the Boys & Girls Club of Northern Cal. and the Appleseed charity. After the Del. court enters final judgment, eBay will file a motion to dismiss 2 related Cal. cases.
On April 27, 2005, a three-judge panel of the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) issued an order in USA-ITA v. U.S., et. al. which lifted the Court of International Trade's (CIT) preliminary injunction that has prevented the Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements (CITA) from considering, accepting or taking any further action on any China safeguard petitions based on the threat of market disruption.
The International Trade Administration (ITA) has issued its preliminary results of the following antidumping (AD) and countervailing (CV) duty administrative reviews: