The International Trade Administration published notices in the Nov. 6 Federal Register on the following AD/CV proceedings (any notices that announce changes to AD/CV duty rates, scope, affected firms, or effective dates will be detailed in another ITT article):
An ITU-R study group on science services will begin defining the distinctive characteristics of nano- and pico-satellites and systems, and their use of radio spectrum as defined by data rates, transmission time and bandwidths, ITU Radiocommunication Bureau Director Francois Rancy wrote members. The work will also examine spectrum requirements for the systems, his letter said. The preliminary agenda for the 2018 World Radiocommunication Conference includes the consideration of appropriate regulatory procedures for notifying satellite networks to spur the deployment and operation of nano- and pico-satellites, the final acts of the 2012 conference said.
The FCC Wireless Bureau set up a pleading cycle for the proposed sale of three lower 700 MHz licenses from Wireless Communications Venture, Central Stearns Comsis and Communications Alternatives to AT&T Mobility. Applicants said the “additional spectrum will enable AT&T to increase its system capacity, particularly for Long Term Evolution services, and to facilitate the provision of additional products and services” in the St. Cloud, Minn., area, the bureau said (http://xrl.us/bnx5f7). Based on a preliminary review, AT&T would hold 75 MHz of spectrum and 55 MHz below 1 GHz in that market, the bureau said. Petitions to deny are due Nov. 16, oppositions Nov. 26 and replies Dec. 3.
The International Trade Administration issued the preliminary results of its administrative review of the antidumping duty order on certain preserved mushrooms from India (A-533-813) for one company, Agro Dutch Industries Limited. The ITA preliminarily determined that Agro Dutch failed to cooperate in the review, and so assigned it an adverse facts available (AFA) rate of 114.76 percent. According to the ITA's decision memo in the IAACCESS database, Agro Dutch declined to respond to one section of the ITA's initial questionnaire. These preliminary results are not in effect. The ITA may modify them in the final results of this review and change the estimated AD cash deposit rate for this company.
A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the International Trade Administration posted to CBP's website Nov. 2, 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://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.)
Megaupload user Kyle Goodwin can’t simply claim he owns the copyright on videos he uploaded to Megaupload and get them back during a criminal investigation of the shuttered cyberlocker service, the Justice Department told the U.S. District Court in Alexandria, Va., last week. It was responding to the court’s request for proposals on how a hearing might proceed for Goodwin to recover his commercial footage of high-school sports (WID Oct 24 p8). Goodwin separately told the court in response to its request that the record in the case “shows that the government acted (and continues to act) with a callous disregard for third-party property rights in data stored on Megaupload."
CBP issued a guidance on removing a remote location filing (RLF) entry from an ABI statement. RLF regulations require that the broker or importer direct the payment of RLF transactions using the Automated Clearinghouse (ACH) or other electronic payment authorized by CBP.
A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the International Trade Administration posted to CBP's website Oct. 31, 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://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.)
People have the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit to thank if they lose wireless service this week because a telecom facility doesn’t have backup power, Public Knowledge Senior Vice President Harold Feld said on his blog. Feld said the FCC imposed backup power requirements in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, and carriers appealed to the D.C. Circuit, which issued a preliminary injunction. “Before the D.C. Circuit could issue one of its inventive results-oriented opinions, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) stepped in an[d] disallowed the rules on the grounds that the FCC hadn’t looked carefully enough at the cost,” Feld wrote (http://xrl.us/bnwxgn). “Seizing the opportunity to get away from a potentially devastating precedent, the FCC withdrew the rule and had the case dismissed.” What happened has broader implications, Feld said. “So if your cell phone service fails this week because the local cell tower ran out of power and had insufficient back up, thank Chief Judge David Sentelle and his merry band of judicial activists. No matter what the subject matter, no matter the threat to public safety, these guys know that membership in the Federalist Society confers enough wisdom to cast aside the judgments of some dumb old ‘expert agency.’ Sure not being able to call 911 in the aftermath of a disaster is inconvenient, potentially even life-threatening. But if industry doesn’t like a rule, then the D.C. Circuit has their back.”
The government of Canada issued the following trade-related notices for Oct. 29 (Note that some may also be given separate headlines.)