The International Trade Administration issued the final results of the administrative review of the antidumping duty order on circular welded non-alloy steel pipe from Korea (A-580-809), which sets an AD cash deposit rate for two manufacturer/exporters. These rates, which are effective June 11, 2012, are expected to be implemented by U.S. Customs and Border Protection soon.
Rep. Lee Terry, R-Neb., said spectrum is the “big issue” facing the House Communications Subcommittee. “We know there is not enough spectrum,” the vice chairman said Wednesday night at a Phoenix Center event. Consumer preferences toward streaming video and audio are changing rapidly and “none of that happens without spectrum,” he said.
Under fire from state attorneys general since Craigslist closed its adult services section (WID March 2 p8), Village Voice Media’s Backpage.com classifieds site won a minor reprieve when a federal judge issued a temporary restraining order against a Washington state law set to take effect Thursday. SB-6251 is intended to fight child prostitution enabled by online bulletin boards like Backpage and would make it a felony to knowingly publish advertising for commercial sex involving a minor.
The effective date of a U.S. law requiring 100% shipping container scanning has been quietly pushed back from July 1, 2012 to 2014, to the great relief of the EU, we've learned. The “Implementing recommendations of the 9/11 Commission Act of 2007,” which requires every U.S.-bound maritime container to be scanned and reviewed by U.S. customs officers before it's loaded aboard a ship, has proved a political irritant between the EU and U.S., said Lilian Bertin, head of sector, U.S. and Canada, in the European Commission Taxation and Customs Union Directorate's international coordination unit, in an interview Thursday. The EU favors a risk management-based approach, he said. Europe has been lobbying for repeal for five years, he said, but the issue is caught up in a split between the Obama Administration and Congress.
The International Trade Administration found AD cash deposit rates of zero for 25 companies, and found reduced AD rates for 7 companies (one company’s rate is unchanged1), in the final results of its section 129 recalculations of the antidumping cash deposit rates currently in effect for companies whose merchandise is subject to 8 AD duty orders on certain products originating from the European Union and Japan, pursuant to instructions from the U.S. Trade Representative. The recalculations were done in order to implement the WTO’s findings in three zeroing disputes. The ITA made no change between its preliminary section 129 results and these final results. These AD rates will not be in effect until the ITA receives an implementation letter from USTR.
The Port of Long Beach budget for FY 2013 will be $942 million, up 12 percent over the past year, with growing investment in facilities and infrastructure modernization, the Board of Harbor Commissioners voted June 4. The budget includes $720 million in capital spending, up 14 percent, mainly due to two already-begun construction projects: the Middle Harbor Terminal Project and preliminary work for the replacement of the Gerald Desmond Bridge. Because of the current weakness in global trade, the spending plan reduces non-staff related operating costs by 5 percent. Over the next decade, the Port plans to spend $4.4 billion to modernize its facilities, including Middle Harbor. The 2013 budget adds 25 positions at the Port, mainly to support the increased construction activity.
The International Trade Administration published notices in the June 6 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):
The International Trade Administration issued an affirmative preliminary determination that small diameter graphite electrodes processed and exported from the U.K. to the U.S. by UK Carbon and Graphite Co., Ltd. is circumventing the antidumping duty order on small diameter graphite electrodes from China (A-570-929). The ITA will instruct CBP to suspend liquidation and to require an AD cash deposit on unliquidated entries of subject merchandise produced and/or exported by UK Carbon and Graphite entered beginning March 18, 2011.
The International Trade Administration issued the preliminary results of its administrative review of the antidumping duty order on citric acid and some citrate salts from China (A-570-937) for one company, finding an AD rate of zero for RZBC (RZBC Co., Ltd. / RZBC Imp. & Exp. Co., Ltd. / RZBC (Juxian) Co., Ltd.). 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.
The International Trade Administration issued the preliminary results of its administrative review of the antidumping duty order on light-walled rectangular pipe and tube from Turkey (A-489-815) for one company, finding an AD rate of zero for Noksel Celik Boru Sanayi A.S. 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.