Mexico's Diario Oficial of July 27, lists notices from the Secretary of the Economy as follows:
The International Trade Administration published notices in the July 27 Federal Register on the following AD/CV proceedings (any notices that announce changes to AD/CV duty rates, the scope, affected firms, or effective dates will be detailed in another ITT article):
Arris Q2 revenue rose 31 percent to $349.3 million from the year-ago quarter. Profit of 13 cents a share was unchanged, the cable equipment maker said in a preliminary earnings release Wednesday (http://xrl.us/bnh7jd). “I remain very encouraged as I look to the balance of 2012,” Chairman Bob Stanzione said.
After a brief delay, the American Association of Exporters and Importers has begun gathering information for its fourth annual Benchmarking Survey. "We generally try to release the survey during April so we can release preliminary results during our Annual Conference in June," said AAEI President Marianne Rowden: "This year's survey was a bit delayed because we added questions about the Centers for Excellence and Expertise."
The International Trade Commission is publishing notices in the July 26 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):
Last week’s report by the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) confirms what NTIA has been saying for the past year about the importance of spectrum sharing, NTIA Administrator Larry Strickling said at the opening of the International Symposium on Advanced Radio Technologies (ISART) meeting Wednesday in Boulder, Colo. But federal government speakers at the meeting said they continue to have concerns about sharing and whether the PCAST report (CD July 23 p1) outlines what will become a final, national policy.
The government of Canada issued the following trade-related notices for July 25 (note that some may also be given separate headlines)
There’s “enough evidence to call policymakers into immediate action” against Google’s alleged market distortions, “including a comprehensive antitrust investigation,” the American Consumer Institute said in a white paper (http://xrl.us/bnh3er) released Tuesday. The paper accuses Google of “self-dealing,” or directing Internet searches toward its own services, at much higher rates than other search engines: “Based on our preliminary statistical analysis, this study finds the disparity in these search results to be statistically significant and warrant a comprehensive analysis. To this last point, while Yahoo and Bing cite each other and both cite Google in equal proportions, Google’s search engine is twice as likely to cite itself and less likely to cite its competitors.” The report ticks off a litany of Google gaffes, such as the “Wi-Spy” data-collection incident by Street View vehicles, “knowingly advertising illegal products” such as pharmaceuticals without a prescription and collecting information from iPhones in violation of the device’s privacy settings. “In terms of structure, Google so dominates its markets that rivals face barriers to entry that preclude competitive market rivalry,” the white paper said. “If Google’s search engine is not a ‘fair search’ then Google can influence what we read, where we shop and ultimately what we pay online.” Such behind-the-scenes maneuvering must be disclosed to consumers or, in the case of unauthorized personal data collection, stopped by policymakers, the institute said. The report was co-written by Steve Pociask, a former chief economist for Bell Atlantic who also is on the FCC’s Consumer Advocacy Committee. The group said by email it would distribute the report “widely to interested third parties, Members of Congress, and key Hill committee staff."
SEATTLE -- A federal judge considering Backpage.com’s motion for a preliminary injunction against a Washington state law that could criminalize its adult classifieds section tried to throw the parties’ lawyers off kilter at a hearing late Friday. The site, which like Seattle Weekly is owned by Village Voice Media, claims SB-6251 purposefully targeted its business and violates Section 230 of the federal Communications Decency Act (CDA) and the First and Fourteenth amendments of the U.S. Constitution. Seattle Weekly among other Village Voice papers has attacked both the state law and what it considers shoddy statistics on underage sex trafficking put forth by several attorneys general and anti-trafficking advocates.
U.S. District Judge Michael Simon rejected the bid of ICTSI and the Port of Portland to intervene in what the International Longshore and Warehouse Union called the "micromanagement of waterfront operations," during a hearing July 19 in Portland, Ore. Simon rejected three of the four motions in federal court, saying that claims of low productivity don’t violate the court order, and that there was no proof of intentional efforts to violate the TRO, the ILWU said.