The Commerce Department published notices in the Aug. 28 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 is postponing until Nov. 19 the due date for its preliminary determination in the antidumping duty investigation on 53-foot domestic dry containers from China (A-570-014). Stoughton Trailers, the company that requested the investigation, asked for the extension, and Commerce says it has no reason to deny the request. Once Commerce makes its preliminary determination, it can suspend liquidation and require cash deposits of estimated AD duties. The preliminary determination was originally due Sept. 30.
The Commerce Department issued the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on frozen warmwater shrimp from Thailand (A-549-822). The agency set rates for about 150 companies in the review. These rates will be used to set final assessments of AD duties on importers for entries between Feb. 1, 2012 and Jan. 31, 2013. The two mandatory respondents, Thai Union and Pakfood, merged partway through the review period, so entries before and after the merger will be treated differently for assessment purposes. New AD duty cash deposit rates set in this review will take effect Aug. 28.
The Commerce Department issued the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on frozen warmwater shrimp from India (A-533-840). The agency set rates for over 200 companies in the review, which will be used to set final assessments of AD duties on importers for entries between Feb. 1, 2012 and Jan. 31, 2013. New AD duty cash deposit rates set in this review will take effect Aug. 28.
The Commerce Department will require cash deposits of countervailing duties on sugar from Mexico, after finding illegal subsidization of Mexican exporters in a preliminary determination announced Aug. 26 in a fact sheet. The agency calculated CV duty cash deposit rates of 2.99% to 17.01%. Suspension of liquidation and cash deposit requirements will take effect upon publication of Commerce’s preliminary determination in the Federal Register. ITT will have more details when they are published.
The European Commission requested full details from Arianespace and the European Space Agency about two satellites that were launched into the wrong orbit. A Soyuz launch vehicle launched the two satellites as part of the Galileo constellation Friday (CD Aug 20 p13). The EC also requested a schedule and plan of action to rectify the problem, it said Monday in a news release (http://bit.ly/1p876RL). The commission said it’s participating in the inquiry board to identify the causes of the problem, “which is expected to present preliminary results in the first half of September.” The inquiry board will start its work Thursday, and submit initial conclusions as early as Sept. 8, Arianespace said in a news release (http://bit.ly/1rvesAE). An anomaly “is thought to have occurred during the flight phase involving the Fregat upper stage, causing the satellites to be injected into a noncompliant orbit,” Arianespace said.
The Commerce Department issued the final results of its countervailing duty administrative review on circular welded carbon steel pipes and tubes from Turkey (C-489-502). The agency assigned zero percent CV duty rates to Borusan and Erbosan, so CV duties will not be assessed on importers of subject merchandise from these companies entered between January 2012 and December 2012. Future entries from these companies will not be subject to an CV cash deposit requirement until further notice. Commerce also continued to assign Toscelik the same CV rate it got in the most recently completed review.
Prognostications about a looming spectrum crunch overstate the public’s demand for wireless spectrum, said a paper co-authored by a doctoral student at the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School of Communication and Journalism. It concluded there’s unmistakable “evidence of persistent errors in projections of wireless demand,” but that such faulty estimates “remain the basis for policy direction, and their underlying accuracy has not been evaluated in a systematic manner."
Prognostications about a looming spectrum crunch overstate the public’s demand for wireless spectrum, said a paper co-authored by a doctoral student at the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School of Communication and Journalism. It concluded there’s unmistakable “evidence of persistent errors in projections of wireless demand,” but such faulty estimates “remain the basis for policy direction, and their underlying accuracy has not been evaluated in a systematic manner."
Prognostications about a looming spectrum crunch overstate the public’s demand for wireless spectrum, said a paper co-authored by a doctoral student at the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School of Communication and Journalism. It concluded there’s unmistakable “evidence of persistent errors in projections of wireless demand,” but such faulty estimates “remain the basis for policy direction, and their underlying accuracy has not been evaluated in a systematic manner."