The Commerce Department issued the preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative review on solid urea from Russia (A-821-80), calculating a preliminary zero AD rate for sole respondent MCC EuroChem. If Commerce continues to find a zero AD rate for EuroChem in the final results, it will instruct CBP to liquidate entries of the company's subject merchandise during the period of review without regard to AD duties, and won't collect AD cash deposits on entries of EuroChem's subject merchandise until further notice. The preliminary results are not in effect. Commerce may modify them in the final results of this review and change the estimated AD cash deposit rate for this company.
The Commerce Department amended its final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on diamond sawblades and parts thereof from South Korea (A-580-855). The agency said it made errors in its calculation of Ehwa's AD rate (see 13061712). After correcting them, Ehwa's AD rate is now zero.
Response to Verizon’s petition to discontinue copper service on Fire Island, N.Y., highlighted a longstanding divide between incumbents and competitive providers. ILECs unanimously supported the request, which they said was a reasonable and cost-effective way to replace an obsolete technology damaged by Superstorm Sandy. CLECs worried that if the FCC grants the request, it could prejudge issues involved in the overall IP transition and put the competitive providers at a disadvantage. State public utility commissions and consumer advocates raised questions about the suitability of Verizon’s planned Voice Link fixed wireless service as a replacement for its traditional copper landline.
The Commerce Department began three antidumping duty new shipper reviews on multilayered wood flooring from China (A-570-970) at the request of Dalian Huade Wood Product Co., Linyi Bonn Flooring Manufacturing Co., and Zhejiang Fuerjia Wooden Co., for merchandise each company both produces and exports to the U.S. Commerce will determine Huade, Bonn Flooring, and Fuerhia are eligible for estimated AD cash deposit rates other than the China-wide entity rate they currently receive. Commerce will instruct CBP to allow, at the option of the importer, the posting of a bond or security, in lieu of an AD cash deposit, for entries of the subject merchandise both produced and exported by either Huade, Bonn Flooring, or Fuerjia, until completion of the review.
The government of Canada issued the following trade-related notices for July 29 (Note that some may also be given separate headlines.)
The Commerce Department published notices in the July 29 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 initiated an antidumping duty new shipper review on tapered roller bearings from China (A-570-601) at the request of Tainai Bearing Co., Ltd. Commerce will determine whether Tainai is eligible for estimated AD cash deposit rate other than the China-wide entity rate it currently receives. Commerce will instruct CBP to allow, at the option of the importer, the posting of a bond or security, in lieu of an AD cash deposit, for entries of the subject merchandise both produced and exported by Tainai, until completion of the review.
The Chinese Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) released a preliminary ruling July 18 that claimed unnamed parties dumped U.S.- and South Korea-originated solar grade polysilicon into the Chinese market during the MOFCOM investigation period. Published July 23, the MOFCOM statement said the alleged dumping activity caused substantial damage to the Chinese economy. As a result of the investigation, those companies that import solar grade polysilicon products must pay security deposits to Chinese Customs. The Chinese Customs tariff number of the relevant imports is 28046190. The electronic grade polysilicon used to produce semiconductor products is not covered by this investigation, the statement said. The Chinese domestic polysilicon industry petitioned MOFCOM to investigate the matters, MOFCOM said.
Three of four Europeans can’t access 4G/LTE in their home towns and virtually no rural area has 4G service, said the European Commission on Thursday. By contrast, over 90 percent of people in the U.S. have 4G access, it said. EU members Ireland, Cyprus and Malta have no 4G services at all, and only Germany, Estonia and Sweden have advanced 4G rollout, it said. The “EU is teetering on the edge of network collapse,” said Digital Agenda Commissioner Neelie Kroes. With global mobile traffic predicted to grow by 66 percent a year, and more people wanting to watch video on their smart devices, more spectrum must be made available or “the whole thing falls apart,” she said. The EU isn’t to blame for the situation, the EC said. It has made huge amounts of spectrum available to meet the needs of high-speed wireless broadband, but spectrum is allocated at the national level, it said. National problems have caused procedural and licensing delays, while spectrum auctions have left mobile operators without the cash needed to roll out networks, it said. Combined with the fragmentation of 28 national markets, operators have no real chance to develop an EU-wide mobile strategy it said. The prices companies pay for spectrum can be 50 times higher in one EU country than in another, and on average, spectrum rights are nearly four times more expensive in the EU than in the U.S., it said. To alleviate the situation, the EC is consulting on better coordination of spectrum licensing to help operators take advantage of economies of scale which could come from deploying 4G in the same spectrum band in several nations at once and give consumers 4G access sooner, it said. The EC has also begun the preliminary phase of enforcement under Europe’s radio spectrum policy program to authorize EU-harmonised spectrum suitable for 4G (870 MHz), it said.
Three of four Europeans can’t access 4G/LTE in their home towns and virtually no rural area has 4G service, said the European Commission on Thursday. By contrast, over 90 percent of people in the U.S. have 4G access, it said. EU members Ireland, Cyprus and Malta have no 4G services at all, and only Germany, Estonia and Sweden have advanced 4G rollout, it said. The “EU is teetering on the edge of network collapse,” said Digital Agenda Commissioner Neelie Kroes. With global mobile traffic predicted to grow by 66 percent a year, and more people wanting to watch video on their smart devices, more spectrum must be made available or “the whole thing falls apart,” she said. The EU isn’t to blame for the situation, the EC said. It has made huge amounts of spectrum available to meet the needs of high-speed wireless broadband, but spectrum is allocated at the national level, it said. National problems have caused procedural and licensing delays, while spectrum auctions have left mobile operators without the cash needed to roll out networks, it said. Combined with the fragmentation of 28 national markets, operators have no real chance to develop an EU-wide mobile strategy it said. The prices companies pay for spectrum can be 50 times higher in one EU country than in another, and on average, spectrum rights are nearly four times more expensive in the EU than in the U.S., it said. To alleviate the situation, the EC is consulting on better coordination of spectrum licensing to help operators take advantage of economies of scale which could come from deploying 4G in the same spectrum band in several nations at once and give consumers 4G access sooner, it said. The EC has also begun the preliminary phase of enforcement under Europe’s radio spectrum policy program to authorize EU-harmonised spectrum suitable for 4G (870 MHz), it said.