In an August decision only made public on Nov. 14, the Court of International Trade remanded aspects of the Commerce Department’s 2008-09 antidumping duty administrative review on steel nails from China (A-570-909). The court’s Aug. 30 opinion took issue with Commerce’s treatment of entries that importers had said were exported by Certified Products International (CPI), even though that Taiwanese company was found to have no exports during the period. CIT found inconsistencies between Commerce practice in market economy reviews, where the importers would have paid the all others rate in that situation, and non-market economy reviews such as this one, where the importers were allowed to pay CPI’s rate.
A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the Commerce Department posted to CBP's website Nov. 14, 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 addcvd.cbp.gov. (CBP occasionally adds backdated messages without otherwise indicating which message was added. ITT will include a message date in parentheses in such cases.)
The National Institute of Standards and Technology on Thursday continued its push for public input on the Cybersecurity Framework, convening a workshop at North Carolina State University’s (NCSU) Centennial campus in Raleigh. The workshop -- set to run through Friday -- and a comment period running through Dec. 13 will help the agency revise the framework in advance of the expected release of a final version in February. Although NIST is examining all aspects of the framework, one of the main areas of interest since a preliminary version dropped in late October has been Appendix B, the framework’s privacy and civil liberties section.
The National Institute of Standards and Technology on Thursday continued its push for public input on the Cybersecurity Framework, convening a workshop at North Carolina State University’s (NCSU) Centennial campus in Raleigh. The workshop -- set to run through Friday -- and a comment period running through Dec. 13 will help the agency revise the framework in advance of the expected release of a final version in February. Although NIST is examining all aspects of the framework, one of the main areas of interest since a preliminary version dropped in late October has been Appendix B, the framework’s privacy and civil liberties section.
The International Trade Commission published notices in the Nov. 14 Federal Register on the following AD/CV injury, Section 337 patent, and other trade proceedings (any notices that warrant a more detailed summary will appear in another ITT article):
Court decisions upholding Aereo’s ability to stream copyrighted content “cannot be squared with the language, structure, and legislative intent of the Copyright Act,” said the NFL and Major League Baseball in an amicus brief filed with the U.S. Supreme Court Wednesday in support of broadcasters’ cert petition against Aereo. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decision denying a preliminary injunction against Aereo was a “significant legal shift” that should occur “at the direction of Congress, not a split panel of the 2nd Circuit,” said the leagues. Though some observers have said the multiple ongoing lawsuits involving Aereo and competitor FilmOn X mean it’s unlikely the Supreme Court would pick up the case anytime soon, the amicus brief made the opposite argument. The multiple pending cases illustrate that the “legal, practical, and international implications of the decision” are “exceedingly pressing and important,” said the leagues, urging the court to take the case. “The Copyright Act reflects Congress’ judgment that it is inequitable for commercial broadcast retransmission services to profit from selling access to copyrighted programming without compensating those who create that programming at great expense, effort, and risk,” said the brief.
Court decisions upholding Aereo’s ability to stream copyrighted content “cannot be squared with the language, structure, and legislative intent of the Copyright Act,” said the NFL and Major League Baseball in an amicus brief filed with the U.S. Supreme Court Wednesday in support of broadcasters’ cert petition against Aereo. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decision denying a preliminary injunction against Aereo was a “significant legal shift” that should occur “at the direction of Congress, not a split panel of the 2nd Circuit,” said the leagues. Though some observers have said the multiple ongoing lawsuits involving Aereo and competitor FilmOn X mean it’s unlikely the Supreme Court would pick up the case anytime soon, the amicus brief made the opposite argument. The multiple pending cases illustrate that the “legal, practical, and international implications of the decision” are “exceedingly pressing and important,” said the leagues, urging the court to take the case. “The Copyright Act reflects Congress’ judgment that it is inequitable for commercial broadcast retransmission services to profit from selling access to copyrighted programming without compensating those who create that programming at great expense, effort, and risk,” said the brief.
Court decisions upholding Aereo’s ability to stream copyrighted content “cannot be squared with the language, structure, and legislative intent of the Copyright Act,” said the NFL and Major League Baseball in an amicus brief filed with the U.S. Supreme Court Wednesday in support of broadcasters’ cert petition against Aereo. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decision denying a preliminary injunction against Aereo was a “significant legal shift” that should occur “at the direction of Congress, not a split panel of the 2nd Circuit,” said the leagues. Though some observers have said the multiple ongoing lawsuits involving Aereo and competitor FilmOn X mean it’s unlikely the Supreme Court would pick up the case anytime soon, the amicus brief made the opposite argument. The multiple pending cases illustrate that the “legal, practical, and international implications of the decision” are “exceedingly pressing and important,” said the leagues, urging the court to take the case. “The Copyright Act reflects Congress’ judgment that it is inequitable for commercial broadcast retransmission services to profit from selling access to copyrighted programming without compensating those who create that programming at great expense, effort, and risk,” said the brief.
The Commerce Department initiated two antidumping duty new shipper reviews on freshwater crawfish tail meat from China (A-570-848) at the request of Hubei Nature Agriculture Industry Co., Ltd. and Hubei Zhenghe Food Co., Ltd. for merchandise each company both produces and exports. Commerce will determine Hubei Nature and Hubei Zhenghe are eligible for estimated AD cash deposit rates other than the China-wide entity rate they currently receive.
The Commerce Department will require antidumping duty cash deposits on imports of diffusion-annealed, nickel-plated flat-rolled steel from Japan, it said in a Nov. 12 fact sheet. The agency found AD duty rates of 47.8% to 77.7% for Japanese companies in its preliminary determination. The final determination in this investigation is currently due in March. ITT will have more details on the preliminary rates when Commerce publishes its preliminary determination in the Federal Register.