The Commerce Department issued the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on ball bearings and parts thereof from Japan (A-588-804) and the United Kingdom (A-412-801). Commerce found that all of the 39 companies under review did not dump subject merchandise, and assigned them zero percent AD duty rates. These final results will be used to set final assessments of AD duties on importers for entries between May 2009 and April 2010. These AD duty orders have been revoked, so entries of ball bearings from Japan and the UK are no longer subject to cash deposit requirements.
The Commerce Department amended its final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on multilayered wood flooring from China (A-570-970) in order to correct errors it made in its calculations. Armstrong and Minglin will continue to get zero AD duty rates, but rates for Fine Furniture and the 69 "average rate" companies will rise to 5.92%. The new rates take effect June 20.
Network congestion on the Internet “does not appear to be widespread” and is mostly confined to “recognized business issues” like Netflix’s complaints of streaming latency, a “preliminary” study by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) said Wednesday. Congestion that does exist “can come and go essentially overnight” due to provider-initiated network reconfigurations and changes in content routing, the study said (http://bit.ly/1oGQoJG). The results are “very early” findings in a project that will eventually become an “atlas” of congestion on the Internet, said David Clark, senior research scientist at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, at a Congressional Internet Caucus Advisory Committee event marking the study’s release.
Network congestion on the Internet “does not appear to be widespread” and is mostly confined to “recognized business issues” like Netflix’s complaints of streaming latency, a “preliminary” study by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) said Wednesday. Congestion that does exist “can come and go essentially overnight” due to provider-initiated network reconfigurations and changes in content routing, the study said (http://bit.ly/1oGQoJG). The results are “very early” findings in a project that will eventually become an “atlas” of congestion on the Internet, said David Clark, senior research scientist at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, at a Congressional Internet Caucus Advisory Committee event marking the study’s release.
The Commerce Department published notices in the June 18 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 Court of International Trade has put liquidation on hold for entries in 2011-12 of frozen fish fillets from Vietnam exported by eight companies, while it considers a challenge to the final results of an antidumping duty administrative review. CIT’s preliminary injunction prevents liquidation of any unliquidated entries of frozen shrimp entered between Aug. 1, 2011 and July 31, 2012 that were exported by the following companies: An Giang Fisheries Import and Export Joint Stock Company; Asia Commerce Fisheries Joint Stock Company; Cuu Long Fish; Hiep Thanh Seafood; International Development and Investment Corporation; NTSF Seafoods; QVD Food Company; and Southern Fishery Industries. The companies are challenging the AD duty rates they were assigned in April (see 14040412).
A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the Commerce Department posted to CBP's website June 17, 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.
Senate Commerce Committee leaders are making progress on a Satellite Television Extension and Localism Act reauthorization bill draft, the source of much industry anxiety (CD June 9 p1), but decline for now to set any release dates, they said in interviews at the Capitol Tuesday. STELA expires at the end of the year unless Congress reauthorizes it, and Commerce and Judiciary committees in both chambers have jurisdiction.
The PS4 was the top-selling videogame system in the U.S. in May for the fifth straight month, according to NPD’s latest sales data. It was also the fifth straight month in which Sony’s console outsold the Xbox One, said NPD. Industry videogame software sales, meanwhile, “rebounded” after several months of declines, on releases of several heavily in-demand titles, it said.
The Commerce Department published notices in the June 17 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):