The International Trade Administration (ITA) has issued its final results of the antidumping (AD) duty administrative review of certain welded carbon steel pipe and tube from Turkey for the review period of May 1, 2002 through April 30, 2003.

The International Trade Administration (ITA) has amended its initiation and its preliminary results of the antidumping (AD) duty administrative review of certain softwood lumber products from Canada for the review period of May 22, 2002 through April 30, 2003 in order to add 22 companies that were inadvertently omitted from the initiation notice.

The Journal of Commerce Online reports that on August 4, 2004, the World Trade Organization (WTO) preliminarily ruled that European Union (EU) subsidies for its sugar farmers violate global trade rules, upholding a complaint filed by Brazil, Australia, and Thailand. The article states that this WTO decision follows a recent WTO ruling against U.S. cotton subsidies. (JoC Online, dated 08/05/04, www.joc.com )

NPR -- with innovations in mind including off-the-shelf receivers for radio reading service -- will soon begin testing various digital audio codecs. The tests will focus on how much bandwidth is required to provide improved digital audio reading service, said Vp-Engineering Mike Starling. The preliminary results of the Corp. for Public Bcstg.-funded research on developing the “extended hybrid capabilities” of iBiquity’s in-band, on-channel (IBOC) technology will be presented to the FCC early next month, he said.

NPR -- with innovations in mind including off-the-shelf receivers for radio reading services -- will soon begin testing various digital audio codecs, Vp-Engineering Mike Starling told us.

The International Trade Administration (ITA) has issued a notice stating that it is postponing the preliminary antidumping (AD) duty determination on certain circular welded carbon quality line pipe from China an additional 50 days, until no later than September 29, 2004 (from August 10, 2004).

(a) final de minimis AD rate of 0.01%; no cash deposit will be required although suspension of liquidation will continue.

In its 6th week available, the PS2 version of Activision’s Spider-Man 2 was again the #1-rented videogame in the U.S., Rentrak said its preliminary Home Video Essentials data for the week ended Aug. 8 showed. Rentrak said the title earned an additional $523,239 in the week, for $4.15 million to date. The Xbox version of the game was again #4 ($225,655, for $2.02 million to date), while the GameCube version jumped from #12 to #10 ($112,666 and $823,315). Electronic Arts (EA) also had 3 SKUs in the top 10: The PS2 version of NCAA Football 2005 at #2 again in its 4th week ($339,874 and $1.71 million), Need for Speed Underground for PS2 at #7 in its 38th week (up one, $145,769 and $9.85 million) and the Xbox version of NCAA at #8 (down one, $139,621 and $745,402). Atari and Take-Two Interactive’s Rockstar Games again each had 2 top 10 SKUs. Atari’s were the PS2 version of DRIV3R at #3 again in its 7th week ($315,633 and $3.28 million) and the Xbox version at #6 again ($161,737 and $1.77 million). Take-Two’s were Red Dead Revolver for PS2 at #5 again in its 14th week ($223,176 and $3.71 million) and the Xbox version at #9 again ($117,925 and $2.11 million).

On August 9, 2004, President Bush signed into law the conference version of H.R. 2443, the Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation Act of 2004 (Public Law (P.L.) 108-293).

In its first full week available, Disney’s adventure movie Hidalgo was the #1-rented DVD in the U.S., Rentrak said its preliminary Home Video Essentials data for the week ended Aug. 8 showed. Rentrak said the title earned $7.07 million on DVD in the week and $7.16 million to date. Last week’s #1-rented DVD -- Columbia TriStar’s Hellboy -- dropped to #3, earning an additional $5.08 million on DVD, for $13.41 million to date. Also seeing strong rentals in its first full week was Columbia TriStar’s comedy 13 Going on 30 at #2 ($6.40 million in the week and $6.50 million to date).