¹ The ITA's instructions in CBP's administrative messages for this case refers to EMPAF's affiliate as Grupo Netuno rather than Maricultura Netuno S.A.

(a) preliminary de minimis CV rate of 1.62% for Futura. Liquidation will not be suspended and there will be no CV bond/cash deposit requirement as a result of this preliminary determination.

Many U.S. videogame renters clearly remained focused on football the week of Aug. 23 as Rentrak’s top 10 videogame rental chart again featured 3 pigskin titles in the top 5. Rentrak said its preliminary Home Video Essentials data showed the PS2 version of Electronic Arts’ Madden NFL 2005 was the top-renting title for the 2nd straight week, earning $529,457. Activision’s PS2 version of Spider-Man 2 held tight to the 2nd spot with $378,027 in earnings, while the Xbox version of Madden moved one step up to #3 ($254,558), switching places with the PS2 version of Atari’s DRIV3R ($237,836). EA’s NCAA Football 2005 for the PS2 stayed at #5 ($205,885), while RockStar Games’ Red Dead Revolver for the PS2 remained #6 ($192,113, for a 16-week total of $4.1 million). Rounding out the top 10 were the Xbox version of Spider-Man 2 ($152,258), UbiSoft’s Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six 3-Black Arrow for the PS2 ($145,243), EA’s PS2 version of Need for Speed: Underground ($121,679 in its 40th week) and the Xbox version of DRIV3R ($107,116).

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

Carl Yankowski, onetime Sony Electronics COO and later a senior officer at Reebok and Palm, was tapped as the new CEO at Majesco, the N.J.-based videogame publisher. Majesco said Yankowski would help its expansion plans for Europe and play a key role in nurturing its proprietary Game Boy Advance Video product line. “Majesco is entering an exciting growth period and we are confident that under Carl’s additional guidance, the company will reach its full potential,” said Jesse Sutton, the previous CEO who remains president. Among Yankowski’s missions at Majesco will be to expand the company through acquisitions or partnerships, the company said in a statement. Majesco carved out a lucrative niche in the 1990s by acquiring licenses and then manufacturing the Sega Genesis hardware and Genesis and Nintendo SNES cartridge-based software. The company has evolved into a full-fledged game publisher with original licenses such as BloodRayne. ----

Silicon Image is introducing a PanelLink Cinema Partners (PLCP) program to address “one of the pitfalls” of HDMI with HDCP: That HDCP content protection is not currently interoperability-tested by any authorized test center (ATC), said John LeMoncheck, Silicon Image vp- consumer electronics. “Ad hoc” tests have been tried, but “frankly, they've not been sufficient, and a lot of finger-pointing” has resulted between set-makers and set- top-box suppliers when the interface fails to work properly, LeMoncheck told the HDTV Forum Thurs. in L.A. PLCP will be a separate Silicon Image subsidiary of Silicon Image aiming “to give consumers access to premium content,” LeMoncheck said. “… Consumers get frustrated. Their digital connection may be working properly, but if the copy protection isn’t properly implemented, you may get snow on some of the channels you expected to be able to see.” PLCP will include interoperability testing “over and above even what HDMI is doing,” and will mount a certification logo and consumer education program to identify those products that are PLCP compliant, LeMoncheck said. The plan will be to label such products “Cinema-Ready,” he said. Disney, Universal, Warner and Intel are supporting PLCP, he said. Preliminary PLCP specs are circulating among the “early adopter member companies,” and announcement of a final version 1.0 spec will come “the next couple of weeks,” LeMoncheck said. PLCP’s first ATC will be established this quarter in Sunnyvale, Cal., and the logo and education program will be launched soon at retail and will receive a “big push” at the Jan. CES in Las Vegas, he said. He said more than 150 HDMI-compliant products are available at retail or announced for shipment during the upcoming holiday selling season.

Silicon Image is introducing a PanelLink Cinema Partners (PLCP) program to address “one of the pitfalls” of HDMI with HDCP: That HDCP content protection is not currently interoperability-tested by any authorized test center (ATC), said John LeMoncheck, Silicon Image vp- consumer electronics. “Ad hoc” tests have been tried, but “frankly, they've not been sufficient, and a lot of finger-pointing” has resulted between set-makers and set- top-box suppliers when the interface fails to work properly, LeMoncheck told the HDTV Forum Thurs. in L.A. PLCP will be a separate Silicon Image subsidiary of Silicon Image aiming “to give consumers access to premium content,” LeMoncheck said. “… Consumers get frustrated. Their digital connection may be working properly, but if the copy protection isn’t properly implemented, you may get snow on some of the channels you expected to be able to see.” PLCP will include interoperability testing “over and above even what HDMI is doing,” and will mount a certification logo and consumer education program to identify those products that are PLCP compliant, LeMoncheck said. The plan will be to label such products “Cinema-Ready,” he said. Disney, Universal, Warner and Intel are supporting PLCP, he said. Preliminary PLCP specs are circulating among the “early adopter member companies,” and announcement of a final version 1.0 spec will come “the next couple of weeks,” LeMoncheck said. PLCP’s first ATC will be established this quarter in Sunnyvale, Cal., and the logo and education program will be launched soon at retail and will receive a “big push” at the Jan. CES in Las Vegas, he said. He said more than 150 HDMI-compliant products are available at retail or announced for shipment during the upcoming holiday selling season.

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

The International Trade Administration (ITA) has issued its final results of the antidumping (AD) duty new shipper review of brake rotors from China for the period of April 1, 2003 through September 30, 2003.

The International Trade Administration (ITA) has issued the final results of its antidumping (AD) duty changed circumstances reviews of the AD duty orders on industrial nitrocellulose (INC) from Brazil, China, France, Germany, Japan, South Korea, and the United Kingdom. As a result, the ITA is revoking the AD duty orders effective July 1, 2003 for Brazil, China, Germany, Japan, South Korea, and the United Kingdom and effective August 1, 2003 for France.