The International Trade Administration (ITA) frequently issues notices on antidumping (AD) and countervailing (CV) duty orders which Broker Power considers to be "minor" in importance as they concern actions that occur after an order is issued and neither announce nor cause any changes to an order's duty rates, scope, affected firms, or effective period.
The Justice Department, on behalf of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), has filed a request with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit asking that the court overturn the decision issued by the U.S. District Court in Montana that granted a preliminary injunction to delay the implementation of USDA's minimal-risk regions final rule, which would, among other things, re-establish trade with Canada for beef products and live cattle under 30 months of age. (See ITT's Online Archives or 03/04/05 news, 05030410, for BP summary of the Montana court's injunction.) (USDA Release No. 0096.05, dated 03/17/05, available at http://www.usda.gov/wps/portal/!ut/p/_s.7_0_A/7_0_1OB?contentidonly=true&contentid=2005/03/0096.xml)
The International Trade Administration (ITA) has initiated an antidumping (AD) duty changed circumstances review of the AD duty order on carbon and certain alloy steel wire rod from Canada at the request of Mittal Canada Inc. (Mittal).
In Bauer Nike Hockey USA, Inc. v. U.S., the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) ruled that certain imported hockey pants are classified as ice-hockey equipment under HTS 9506.99.25 rather than as sports clothing under HTS 6211.33.00, reversing an earlier Court of International Trade (CIT) decision which had classified the items under the latter heading.
Connexion by Boeing said Mon. it will roll out a commercial maritime service in the fall, at a monthly charge of $2,800 per vessel. The maritime service is a counterpart to Boeing’s aeronautical Connexion service. Boeing isn’t targeting passenger ships but may later. “If you think of think of tankers, cargo ships, there are probably something on the order of 40,000 vessels of that type, spending something like $1 billion a year on communications and not doing that much communicating at that,” Sean Schwinn, vp-maritime service for Connexion, told us. Schwinn said Boeing has made preliminary choices on equipment vendors for the service but isn’t announcing them yet. The 3 lead vendors for its aeronautical service are Mitsubishi, ViaSat and Rockwell Collins. Connexion must complete several steps before it can launch the service, Schwinn said. “We and others still have to file applications with the FCC and other regulatory authorities to operate the service,” he said: “That’s a job that definitely needs to get done. We're developing some new hardware that we need to complete the development of and bring in to test.”
BellSouth asked a federal court in Miss. to suspend and overturn a recent PSC order requiring it to continue for now to provide CLECs with cost-based access to the unbundled network elements (UNE) affected by the FCC’s Triennial Review Remand Order (TRRO). The PSC issued this order earlier this month in response to CLEC petitions claiming major financial harm if BellSouth on March 11 stopped providing the cost-based UNE platform services and unbundled high-capacity loop and transport facilities no longer mandatory because of the TRRO. The PSC said its order was to stand until it completed a generic proceeding to address changes needed to the existing agreements between CLECs and incumbents because of the TRRO. But BellSouth told the U.S. Dist. Court, Jackson, the PSC order was unlawful because it was an open-ended state extension of cost-based access to certain UNEs, contravening FCC policies laid out in the TRRO. BellSouth said the PSC didn’t try to explain how its order could be consistent with federal law and the holdings in the FCC’s TRRO decision. It argued that the state decision works against the public interest by delaying competitors’ investment in their own network facilities. BellSouth sought a preliminary injunction to lift the PSC order, claiming irreparable injury from CLECs that take advantage of artificially low UNE-P rates the FCC has acted against in the TRRO. To allow the court time to rule on the injunction, BellSouth said it would keep processing new UNE-P orders through April 17. The court will hold a hearing on the injunction request April 7. BellSouth said it would refund any overcharges to CLECs if the court granted interim relief but ultimately ruled in the PSC’s favor.
The International Trade Administration (ITA) frequently issues notices on antidumping (AD) and countervailing (CV) duty orders which Broker Power considers to be "minor" in importance as they concern actions that occur after an order is issued and neither announce nor cause any changes to an order's duty rates, scope, affected firms, or effective period.
The International Trade Administration (ITA) has made final affirmative antidumping (AD) duty determinations that bottle-grade polyethylene terephthalate (PET) resin from India, Indonesia, and Thailand is being, or is likely to be, sold in the U.S. at less than fair value.
The Commerce Department's Office of Textiles and Apparel (OTEXA) has posted to its Web site the following five monthly reports containing January 2005 trade data for imports and exports of textiles and apparel:
The Commerce Department has issued a press release stating that it is initiating a new system to monitor imports of textiles and apparel products, which will allow the Commerce Department and the public timely access to preliminary textile and apparel data (aggregated on a category basis) from U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP).