The ITA states that China-wide rate applies to all China exporters which do not have a separate rate, including Kunshan, Henan, and High Hope.

In its 2nd week, Eidos’s Hitman: Contracts moved up one notch to become the top-rented videogame in the U.S., Rentrak said its preliminary Home Video Essentials data for the week ended May 2 showed. Rentrak said the game earned an additional $373,558 in the week, for $603,970 to date. The Xbox version of the game was #3 ($215,395 in the week, $334,081 to date). Midway Games and Ubisoft also had 2 SKUs in the top 10 for the week. Midway’s were NBA Ballers for PS2 at #2 (down one, 4th week, $304,580 in the week, $1.08 million to date) and the Xbox version of it at #6 (down one, 4th week, $169,375 in the week, $609,683 to date). Ubisoft’s were Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow for Xbox at #5 (down 2, 6th week, $181,974 and $1.38 million) and Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six 3: Raven Shield for PS2 at #7 (down one, 6th week, $159,200 and $1.11 million). But Electronic Arts (EA) again had the most titles in the top 10, with 3, all for PS2: Need for Speed Underground at #4 again in its 24th week ($194,527 and $7.51 million), James Bond 007: Everything or Nothing at #8 (down one, 11th week, $148,641 and $2.7 million) and Fight Night 2004 at #10 in its 4th week ($133,662 and $475,553). Rounding out the top 10 was Take-Two Interactive’s Mafia for PS2 at #9 (down one, 14th week, $139,231 and $3.57 million). Hitman: Contracts was also the #1-selling software title in the U.K. in its first week, the Entertainment & Leisure Software Publishers Assn. (ELSPA) said ChartTrack data for the week ended May 1 showed. Codemasters had 2 games in the top 10: ToCA Race Driver 2 at #3 (down 2 from a week ago) and England International Football 2004 at #8 in its first week. But EA again had the most titles in the top 10, with 3: Fight Night 2004 at #2 in its first week, the Bond game at #7 (down 2 in its 10th week) and FIFA 2004 at #10 (down 3 in its 28th week). Other games in the top 10 were Sega’s Sonic Heroes at #5 (down 2 in its 13th week), Ubisoft’s Pandora Tomorrow at #6 (down 2 in its 6th week) and Acclaim Entertainment’s World Championship Rugby at #9 (down 3 in its 4th week).

Canadian regulators are closely following the FCC’s actions relating to the nascent broadband over power line (BPL) industry, although “we can’t [regulate] in the same fashion as the FCC,” Jean-Claude Brien of Industry Canada told us. “We are kind of now monitoring closely, cooperating with Canadian proponents and obviously looking at what’s being done in the U.S. to assess the impact of the regulation or the approach the U.S. will take.” In contrast to the more than a dozen public BPL trials underway in the U.S., Canada has reported only one ongoing pilot -- by PUC Telecom, an affiliate of the power utility owned by the city of Sault Ste. Marie, Ont. Some industry officials blame lack of interest in a 3rd high-speed platform on high broadband penetration in Canada compared with the U.S., but Brien, who’s dir.-spectrum engineering, said interest in BPL had begun to pick up “since last year.”

(a) preliminary AD margin of zero

The Departmental Advisory Committee on Commercial Operations of the Bureau of Customs and Border Protection (COAC) held a quarterly meeting on April 2, 2004 in Washington, DC to discuss and receive updates from U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officials on various trade and customs issues.

The ITA states that it has applied the adverse facts available rate of 183.80% to company A, a U.S. importer who was the second sale in the U.S. for purposes of Dudao's new shipper review, as it failed to participate in Dubao's review and as an interested party can be assessed this rate.

The Department of Energy (DOE) has issued a notice announcing that it will hold an informal public meeting to discuss the priorities of the existing Energy Conservation Program for Consumer Products and Commercial and Industrial Equipment (Energy Conservation Program) and any possible expansion of the scope of the program to include additional consumer products and commercial and industrial equipment for either standards or voluntary programs.

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 issued the final results of its antidumping (AD) duty changed circumstances review of the AD duty order on coumarin from China. As a result, the ITA is revoking this AD duty order effective February 1, 2003.

In its first full week available, Fox’s Master & Commander: The Far Side of the World was the #1-rented DVD in the U.S., Rentrak said its preliminary Home Video Essentials data for the week ended April 25 showed. Rentrak said the DVD earned $7.14 million in the week, for $7.26 million to date. Last week’s #1- rented DVD -- Miramax’s Kill Bill Volume 1 -- slipped to #2, earning an additional $5.24 million, for $12.06 million to date. The only other new DVDs in the top 10 were Buena Vista/Disney’s The Haunted Mansion at #3 ($4.74 million in the week, $4.83 million to date) and Universal’s Win a Date with Ted Hamilton at #10 ($2.13 million and $2.17 million).