The Commerce Department published notices in the Sept. 24 Federal Register on the following AD/CV duty proceedings (any notices that announce changes to AD/CV duty rates, scope, affected firms, or effective dates will be detailed in another ITT article):
The Commerce Department intends to assign Sino-Maple (JiangSu) Co., Ltd. an antidumping duty cash deposit rate of 13.74% on its exports of multilayered wood flooring from China (A-570-970), it said in the preliminary results of a changed circumstances review (here). Commerce preliminarily found Jiafeng Wood (Suzhou) Co., Ltd. underwent a name and location change to become Sino-Maple, but that its operations are otherwise unaffected. If Commerce finalizes its determination, it will assign Sino-Maple's the Jiafeng's 13.74% cash deposit rate effective from the publication date of the final results of this review, said the agency.
The Commerce Department made a preliminary affirmative antidumping determination that silicomanganese from Australia (A-602-808) is being sold in the U.S. at less than fair value (here). Commerce will order CBP to suspend liquidation for entries of subject merchandise with a time of entry on or after Sept. 25, and will impose AD duty cash deposit requirements on such entries as follows:
The FCC is expected to take up a controversial privacy NPRM as early as its Oct. 22 meeting, though the proposal may well slip into November, FCC and industry officials said. There were lots of questions about the notice raised at CTIA earlier this month and signs of sharp divisions among commissioners (see 1509110027). Some industry experts predict that the FCC could delve into privacy rules for edge providers like Google, Amazon or Apple, in addition to rules for ISPs.
The FCC is expected to take up a controversial privacy NPRM as early as its Oct. 22 meeting, though the proposal may well slip into November, FCC and industry officials said. There were lots of questions about the notice raised at CTIA earlier this month and signs of sharp divisions among commissioners (see 1509110027). Some industry experts predict that the FCC could delve into privacy rules for edge providers like Google, Amazon or Apple, in addition to rules for ISPs.
The FCC is expected to take up a controversial privacy NPRM as early as its Oct. 22 meeting, though the proposal may well slip into November, FCC and industry officials said. There were lots of questions about the notice raised at CTIA earlier this month and signs of sharp divisions among commissioners (see 1509110027). Some industry experts predict that the FCC could delve into privacy rules for edge providers like Google, Amazon or Apple, in addition to rules for ISPs.
U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia Judge Richard Leon agreed to hear oral argument in Klayman v. Obama Oct. 8, at 2 p.m., said Larry Klayman, one of the plaintiffs and chairman of Freedom Watch, in a news release. Klayman and co-plaintiffs filed a renewed motion for a preliminary injunction and request for oral argument Monday. Leon’s decision to hear the case comes after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit decided to send the case back to Leon and allow the plaintiffs to prove their records were collected by the NSA (see 1508310042). The D.C. Circuit ruled that the plaintiffs failed to prove their individual phone records were collected by the NSA, so their Fourth Amendment rights weren't violated and they weren't harmed. Because the plaintiffs’ phone service was provided by Verizon Wireless and not Verizon Business, which the government had admitted to surveilling, the D.C. Circuit said plaintiffs hadn't proven their constitutional rights were violated. But since Klayman and his co-plaintiffs argued their case, The New York Times obtained government-released documents through a Freedom of Information Act request that purport to show that Verizon Wireless records were collected under Section 215 of the Patriot Act. Leon will hear the case in Courtroom 18 on the sixth floor of the U.S. District Court in the D.C. Courthouse.
U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia Judge Richard Leon agreed to hear oral argument in Klayman v. Obama Oct. 8, at 2 p.m., said Larry Klayman, one of the plaintiffs and chairman of Freedom Watch, in a news release. Klayman and co-plaintiffs filed a renewed motion for a preliminary injunction and request for oral argument Monday. Leon’s decision to hear the case comes after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit decided to send the case back to Leon and allow the plaintiffs to prove their records were collected by the NSA (see 1508310042). The D.C. Circuit ruled that the plaintiffs failed to prove their individual phone records were collected by the NSA, so their Fourth Amendment rights weren't violated and they weren't harmed. Because the plaintiffs’ phone service was provided by Verizon Wireless and not Verizon Business, which the government had admitted to surveilling, the D.C. Circuit said plaintiffs hadn't proven their constitutional rights were violated. But since Klayman and his co-plaintiffs argued their case, The New York Times obtained government-released documents through a Freedom of Information Act request that purport to show that Verizon Wireless records were collected under Section 215 of the Patriot Act. Leon will hear the case in Courtroom 18 on the sixth floor of the U.S. District Court in the D.C. Courthouse.
The Commerce Department issued its final determinations in the antidumping and countervailing duty investigations on sugar from Mexico (A-201-845/C-201-846) (here) and (here). Suspension agreements signed in December 2014 remain in effect (see 1412240020), so liquidation of entries of subject merchandise is not suspended and cash deposit requirements are not in effect.
The Copyright Office handed Pandora a procedural victory late Friday in the Internet service's quest to have the Copyright Royalty Board (CRB) consider its past deals with independent music label rights consortium Merlin and independent label Naxos as possible benchmarks for CRB’s 2016-2020 webcasting rate-setting proceeding. The 2009 Webcaster Settlement Act (WSA) doesn’t prohibit the admissibility of direct licenses like Pandora’s Merlin/Naxos deals that are clearly influenced by WSA terms, Register of Copyrights Maria Pallante said in the ruling. Copyright royalty judges are normally barred from considering alternative rate structures authorized by WSA in rate-setting proceedings since they aren’t set by CRJs, but direct licenses don’t fall under that prohibition, Pallante said.