Aereo v. ABC remains too close to call (WID April 21 p6) after oral argument at the U.S. Supreme Court Tuesday, said several communications attorneys who attended the hearing in follow-up interviews. They said a decision, which may be 5-4, seems likely to hinge on what’s safest for the cloud computing industry.
Aereo v. ABC remains too close to call after oral argument at the U.S. Supreme Court Tuesday (CED April 21 p1), said several communications attorneys who attended the hearing and gave follow-up interviews. They said a decision, which may be 5-4, seems likely to hinge on what’s safest for the cloud computing industry.
A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the Commerce Department posted to CBP's website April 22, 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 issued the preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative review on stainless steel bar from Spain (A-469-805). The agency preliminarily calculated a zero-percent AD rate for Gerdau Aceros Especiales Europa, S.L. If the agency's finding is continued in the final results, importers of stainless steel bar from Gerdau entered between March 2012 and February 2013 will not be assessed AD duties, and future entries from Gerdau will not be subject to an AD cash deposit requirement until further notice.
The Commerce Department issued the preliminary results of its countervailing duty administrative review on circular welded carbon steel pipe and tube products from Turkey (C-489-502). The agency preliminarily calculated zero-percent "de minimis" CV duty rates for Borusan and Erbosan. If the agency's finding is continued in the final results, circular welded pipe from these companies entered between January 2012 and December 2012 will not be assessed CV duties, and future entries from these companies will not be subject to an CV cash deposit requirement until further notice.
The Obama administration will make a preliminary determination in June on the reinstatement of Bangladesh into the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP), the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative said on April 22. Although the Bangladeshi government is making gradual improvement to labor conditions in the country, progress is still insufficient, according to administration officials in February (see 14021125). Bangladesh provides almost $5 billion worth of goods to the U.S. on an annual basis, largely in the apparel sector. Those goods are not eligible in GSP for any beneficiary. Roughly 99 percent of U.S. imports from Bangladesh do not reap GSP benefits (see 13071613). A series of labor disasters in Bangladesh that claimed upwards of 1,000 lives prompted USTR to rescind Bangladesh’s GSP eligibility in July 2013. The GSP program has been expired since July 31, 2013 (see 14032429).
The Commerce Department is beginning antidumping and countervailing duty investigations on sugar from Mexico, according to a April 18 fact sheet released by the agency. The American Sugar Coalition on March 28 requested the investigations, alleging Mexico is subsidizing its sugar companies and dumping excess sugar in the U.S. (see 14033124).
A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the Commerce Department posted to CBP's website April 18, 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 U.S. Supreme Court’s questions and responses to oral arguments Tuesday in ABC v. Aereo will provide some insight into whether the court will side with broadcasters or streaming TV service Aereo when it issues a decision this summer, said several attorneys, one of whom is involved in the case. Because broadcasters sued Aereo and similar competing service FilmOn in many venues all over the country, multiple lower courts have had the chance to issue rulings based on the same information the Supreme Court will use in its decision, and those rulings have varied widely, said Fletcher Heald appellate attorney Harry Cole. The courts have issued “complete differences of opinion based on essentially the same facts,” Cole said in a webinar examining the case on Fletcher Heald’s CommLaw Blog (http://bit.ly/1eIRjVg). That makes it hard to predict the case now, but the questions the justices will ask may shed some light on how they view the case, several attorneys said.
The U.S. Supreme Court’s questions and responses to oral arguments Tuesday in ABC v. Aereo will provide some insight into whether the court will side with broadcasters or streaming TV service Aereo when it issues a decision this summer, said several attorneys, one of whom is involved in the case. Because broadcasters sued Aereo and similar competing service FilmOn in many venues all over the country, multiple lower courts have had the chance to issue rulings based on the same information the Supreme Court will use in its decision, and those rulings have varied widely, said Fletcher Heald appellate attorney Harry Cole. The courts have issued “complete differences of opinion based on essentially the same facts,” Cole said in a webinar examining the case on Fletcher Heald’s CommLaw Blog (http://bit.ly/1eIRjVg). That makes it hard to predict the case now, but the questions the justices will ask may shed some light on how they view the case, several attorneys said.