The Commerce Department issued the final results of its antidumping duty administrative review on brass sheet and strip from Italy (A-475-601) (here). For entries on or after July 6, Commerce is setting a 22% AD duty cash deposit rate for KME Italy SpA. All other exporters of subject merchandise will continue to get the cash deposit rate set for them in their most recently completed review, and companies that have never been assigned an AD duty rate will get the 5.44% all others rate.
HDMI Licensing is “wrongfully” demanding more than $905,000 in back royalties and interest from Advanced Digital Broadcast (ADB), a Swiss-based supplier of HD set-top boxes, residential gateway devices and other products to pay-TV operators throughout the world, ADB alleged in a breach of contract complaint filed June 30 in U.S. District Court in San Jose. HDMI Licensing threatened to cancel ADB’s license agreement June 30 and alert CBP to seize ADB shipments as “unauthorized” goods, the complaint said. The complaint doesn’t seek a preliminary injunction, only a “declaration” that HDMI Licensing “is precluded” from notifying CBP that ADB goods “are unauthorized and subject to seizure because they are not.”
HDMI Licensing is “wrongfully” demanding more than $905,000 in back royalties and interest from Advanced Digital Broadcast (ADB), a Swiss-based supplier of HD set-top boxes, residential gateway devices and other products to pay-TV operators throughout the world, ADB alleged in a breach of contract complaint filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court in San Jose.
Forty state attorneys general lent their support to Mississippi AG Jim Hood Monday, filing a joint amicus brief backing his bid to overturn the U.S. District Court in Jackson’s ruling granting Google a preliminary injunction against his enforcement of a subpoena of the company’s search practices. Hood, a Democrat, filed an appeal with the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in late March, after U.S. District Judge Henry Wingate ordered the preliminary injunction because there was a “substantial likelihood” that Google would prevail in its lawsuit against Hood on claims he violated Google’s First Amendment rights (see 1504010029). The AGs -- led by Kentucky's Jack Conway, a Democrat; Arizona's Mark Brnovich, a Republican; and Louisiana's Buddy Caldwell, a Republican -- said that they aren’t taking a position on Hood’s investigation but believe Google’s suit was premature. Wingate’s preliminary injunction “would provide a roadmap for any potential wrongdoer subject to a legitimate state law enforcement investigation to attempt to thwart such an inquiry,” the AGs said. “Such an outcome would undermine Attorneys General’s powers, granted to them by state constitutions and state statutes, to protect the general citizenry from violations of state law. It would also flood the federal courts with what amount to state-law discovery disputes.”
The Commerce Department issued the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on polyester staple fiber from Taiwan (A-583-833) (here). Commerce determined Far Eastern New Century Corporation (FENC) did not undersell subject merchandise during the period of review, assigning the company a zero percent AD duty rate. Subject merchandise from FENC entered between May 1, 2013 and April 30, 2014 will be liquidated without any assessment of AD duties, and future entries of subject merchandise exported by FENC will not be subject to AD duty cash deposit requirements until further notice. The new AD duty cash deposit rate takes effect July 2.
The Commerce Department is postponing until Nov. 2 the final determination in its antidumping duty investigation on melamine from China (A-570-020) (here), based on a request from the domestic manufacturers that requested the investigation. Melamine from China is currently subject to cash deposit requirements set in Commerce’s preliminary determination issued in June (see 1506170018), as well as CV duty cash deposit requirements set in April (see 1504170015).
Forty state attorneys general lent their support to Mississippi AG Jim Hood Monday, filing a joint amicus brief backing his bid to overturn the U.S. District Court in Jackson’s ruling granting Google a preliminary injunction against his enforcement of a subpoena of the company’s search practices. Hood, a Democrat, filed an appeal with the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in late March, after U.S. District Judge Henry Wingate ordered the preliminary injunction because there was a “substantial likelihood” that Google would prevail in its lawsuit against Hood on claims he violated Google’s First Amendment rights (see 1504010029). The AGs -- led by Kentucky's Jack Conway, a Democrat; Arizona's Mark Brnovich, a Republican; and Louisiana's Buddy Caldwell, a Republican -- said that they aren’t taking a position on Hood’s investigation but believe Google’s suit was premature. Wingate’s preliminary injunction “would provide a roadmap for any potential wrongdoer subject to a legitimate state law enforcement investigation to attempt to thwart such an inquiry,” the AGs said. “Such an outcome would undermine Attorneys General’s powers, granted to them by state constitutions and state statutes, to protect the general citizenry from violations of state law. It would also flood the federal courts with what amount to state-law discovery disputes.”
The Commerce Department published notices in the June 30 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):
Charter Communications was a frequent suitor for Time Warner Cable before Comcast seemingly trumped it, making acquisition offers three separate times between July 2013 and January 2014, and being rejected each time by TWC's board as being inadequate. That's according to the background of Charter's buying Bright House Networks and TWC included in the preliminary Charter and TWC shareholder proxy vote materials filed Friday with the SEC. Starting in early 2014, Charter began separate negotiations on the acquisition of BHN that ran through the year and into spring 2015, while the Comcast/TWC acquisition was falling apart in the face of FCC concerns about the deal, the proxy materials said. After TWC and Comcast mutually agreed to terminate the deal, Charter CEO Tom Rutledge talked with TWC CEO Robert Marcus about once again looking at a sale, with the two meeting days later at NCTA's annual INTX: the Internet and Television Expo, with Rutledge presenting an offer approved by Charter's board a day earlier of roughly $172.50 per share. That day, an unidentified company also contacted TWC about a possible offer of $180 to $200 per share. That company ultimately told TWC it wouldn't be able to make a formal bid within the time frame TWC specified. The next day, Charter increased its cash-and-stock offer to roughly $195.71 per TWC share. Two days later, May 23, TWC's board unanimously approved the Charter deal.
Charter Communications was a frequent suitor for Time Warner Cable before Comcast seemingly trumped it, making acquisition offers three separate times between July 2013 and January 2014, and being rejected each time by TWC's board as being inadequate. That's according to the background of Charter's buying Bright House Networks and TWC included in the preliminary Charter and TWC shareholder proxy vote materials filed Friday with the SEC. Starting in early 2014, Charter began separate negotiations on the acquisition of BHN that ran through the year and into spring 2015, while the Comcast/TWC acquisition was falling apart in the face of FCC concerns about the deal, the proxy materials said. After TWC and Comcast mutually agreed to terminate the deal, Charter CEO Tom Rutledge talked with TWC CEO Robert Marcus about once again looking at a sale, with the two meeting days later at NCTA's annual INTX: the Internet and Television Expo, with Rutledge presenting an offer approved by Charter's board a day earlier of roughly $172.50 per share. That day, an unidentified company also contacted TWC about a possible offer of $180 to $200 per share. That company ultimately told TWC it wouldn't be able to make a formal bid within the time frame TWC specified. The next day, Charter increased its cash-and-stock offer to roughly $195.71 per TWC share. Two days later, May 23, TWC's board unanimously approved the Charter deal.