NAB Show organizers hired an independent research firm, Exhibit Surveys, of Red Bank, New Jersey, to verify attendance at the 2015 event by asking showgoers to self-certify in a one-question “yes” or “no” email questionnaire whether they actually made the trip to Las Vegas. “Your response is extremely important for the accuracy of this project,” said the canvassing email. “Our records indicate that you registered for the 2015 NAB Show which was held April 11-16 in Las Vegas. Please click on the link below to confirm whether or not you attended and to verify your registration demographics. If any information is incorrect or missing, please select the appropriate response.” The “preliminary registered attendance” was 103,042 for the 2015 NAB Show, organizers said in an announcement April 14, the third day of the show. “All numbers are based on pre-show and onsite registration and subject to an ongoing audit,” organizers said then.
NAB Show organizers hired an independent research firm, Exhibit Surveys, of Red Bank, New Jersey, to verify attendance at the 2015 event by asking showgoers to self-certify in a one-question “yes” or “no” email questionnaire whether they actually made the trip to Las Vegas. “Your response is extremely important for the accuracy of this project,” said the canvassing email. “Our records indicate that you registered for the 2015 NAB Show which was held April 11-16 in Las Vegas. Please click on the link below to confirm whether or not you attended and to verify your registration demographics. If any information is incorrect or missing, please select the appropriate response.” The “preliminary registered attendance” was 103,042 for the 2015 NAB Show, organizers said in an announcement April 14, the third day of the show. “All numbers are based on pre-show and onsite registration and subject to an ongoing audit,” organizers said then.
A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the Commerce Department posted to CBP's website May 26, along with the case number(s) and CBP message number, is provided below. The messages are available by searching for the listed CBP message number at http://adcvd.cbp.dhs.gov/adcvdweb.
The Commerce Department published notices in the May 22 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 FCC Wireless Bureau established a pleading cycle on AT&T’s proposed buy of two cellular A-block licenses in two cellular market areas (CMAs) in Illinois from Cellular Properties Inc. Petitions to deny are due June 19, oppositions June 29 and replies July 7. “Our preliminary review indicates that AT&T would be assigned 25 megahertz of cellular spectrum in eleven counties covering all of CMA 400 (Illinois 7-Vermilion) and part of CMA 402 (Illinois 9-Clay),” the bureau said of cellular market areas. “Post-transaction, AT&T would hold 101 to 173 megahertz of spectrum in total, and 31 to 68 megahertz of below-1-GHz spectrum, in these two CMAs in Illinois.” The bureau also sent letters to both companies asking additional questions on the deal.
The Commerce Department issued the final results of the antidumping duty new shipper review on xanthan gum from China (A-570-985) (here). The agency continued to find a zero AD duty rate for subject merchandise produced and exported by Meihua (including Meihua Group International Trading (Hong Kong) Limited, Langfang Meihua Bio-Technology Co., Ltd., and Xinjiang Meihua Amino Acid Co., Ltd.). As such, Commerce will direct CBP to liquidate period of review entries of merchandise produced and exported by Meihua without assessing AD duties, and will not collect AD cash deposits on future entries of such merchandise until further notice. These final results are take effect May 22.
The Commerce Department made a preliminary affirmative antidumping determination that welded line pipe from South Korea (A-580-876) and Turkey (A-489-822) is being sold in the U.S. at less than fair value. The agency will impose AD duty cash requirements on entries of subject merchandise from these countries beginning on May 22.
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals en banc ruling against requiring Google remove the controversial anti-Islam video Innocence of Muslims from YouTube (see 1505180063) “artificially shrunk” U.S. copyright rights “by deciding that actors do not have copyright interests in their own dramatic performances,” said The Armenta Law Firm in a news release Monday. Armenta is one of the firms representing actress Cindy Lee Garcia in her request for a mandatory preliminary takedown of the video, which Garcia claims she was falsely lured into briefly appearing in. The 9th Circuit's en banc ruling reversed an earlier ruling by three of the circuit's judges that allowed for the video's takedown (see report in the March 3, 2014, issue). The en banc ruling “short changes the threats” Garcia has received since the video first appeared online in 2012 and didn't address Garcia's “First Amendment right to be free of the speech crudely dubbed over her performance,” Armenta said. Google has “long believed that the previous ruling was a misapplication of copyright law,” said a spokesman. “We're pleased with this latest ruling.”
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals en banc ruling against requiring Google remove the controversial anti-Islam video Innocence of Muslims from YouTube (see 1505180063) “artificially shrunk” U.S. copyright rights “by deciding that actors do not have copyright interests in their own dramatic performances,” said The Armenta Law Firm in a news release Monday. Armenta is one of the firms representing actress Cindy Lee Garcia in her request for a mandatory preliminary takedown of the video, which Garcia claims she was falsely lured into briefly appearing in. The 9th Circuit's en banc ruling reversed an earlier ruling by three of the circuit's judges that allowed for the video's takedown (see report in the March 3, 2014, issue). The en banc ruling “short changes the threats” Garcia has received since the video first appeared online in 2012 and didn't address Garcia's “First Amendment right to be free of the speech crudely dubbed over her performance,” Armenta said. Google has “long believed that the previous ruling was a misapplication of copyright law,” said a spokesman. “We're pleased with this latest ruling.”
The Commerce Department issued its final affirmative countervailing duty determination on steel nails from Vietnam (C-552-819) (here). Suspension of liquidation is currently not in effect for entries on or after March 3, and Commerce will only require cash deposits of estimated CV duties on future entries if it issues a CV duty order.