The International Trade Administration issued a notice revoking the antidumping duty order on certain orange juice from Brazil (A-351-840) effective as of March 9, 2011. Accordingly, the ITA will notify U.S. Customs and Border Protection to discontinue suspension of liquidation and collection of cash deposits on entries of the subject merchandise entered or withdrawn from warehouse on or after March 9, 2011. Entries of subject merchandise prior to March 9, 2011 will continue to be subject to suspension of liquidation and AD duty deposit requirements, and the ITA will complete any pending administrative reviews of this AD order.
A proposed new port facility to export large amounts of coal from Wyoming and Montana to Asia "has the potential to significantly impact human health and the environment," the Environmental Protection Agency said in a letter to the Army Corps of Engineers, which would have to approve the project. The project is one of several similar coal export projects proposed in the Northwest.
Arbitron said it introduced a software-based meter for measuring mobile device media use. The meter will give marketers, content owners, app developers and carriers access to information about how customers use their devices for social media, e-commerce and other apps. It will measure their Web-browsing habits and exposure to advertising, Arbitron said. It began recruiting in November 2011 for a panel of about 6,000 smartphone and tablet users from which it will extrapolate usage data, the company said. The Arbitron mobile trends panels service will report on the reach, frequency and consumer engagement on “all key functions and activities of their mobile devices,” whether it’s online or not, it said. Arbitron also released some preliminary findings from Q1 usage: The top five apps are Facebook, Google Search, YouTube, Pandora, and Yahoo Mail; app usage is growing faster than Web browsing; average data traffic over Wi-Fi and cellular on iPhones is about 223 MB per user per month, while the average among Android, BlackBerry and Symbian phone users is 59 MB a month; social media apps account for 11 percent of all smartphone usage and Facebook accounted for 210 minutes of the average user’s smartphone time in a month. Twitter accounted for 107 minutes of an average user’s time in a month.
The International Trade Administration issued the final results of its antidumping duty changed circumstances review of certain frozen warmwater shrimp from Vietnam (A-552-802). The ITA determined that C. P. Vietnam Corporation is the successor-in-interest to C. P. Vietnam Livestock Corporation. As such, the ITA will instruct U.S. Customs and Border Protection to apply the same AD cash deposit rate in effect for C.P. Livestock (1.04%) to all entries of subject merchandise from C.P. Vietnam that were entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption on or after April 18, 2012.
The International Trade Commission determined that a U.S. industry is not materially injured or threatened with material injury by reason of imports of bottom mount refrigerator-freezers from Korea that the International Trade Administration has determined are subsidized and from Korea and Mexico that the ITA has determined are sold in the United States at less than fair value.
Arbitron said it introduced a software-based meter for measuring mobile device media use. The meter will give marketers, content owners, app developers and carriers access to information about how customers use their devices for social media, e-commerce and other apps. It will measure their Web-browsing habits and exposure to advertising, Arbitron said. It began recruiting in November 2011 for a panel of about 6,000 smartphone and tablet users from which it will extrapolate usage data, the company said. The Arbitron mobile trends panels service will report on the reach, frequency and consumer engagement on “all key functions and activities of their mobile devices,” whether it’s online or not, it said. Arbitron also released some preliminary findings from Q1 usage: The top five apps are Facebook, Google Search, YouTube, Pandora, and Yahoo Mail; app usage is growing faster than Web browsing; average data traffic over Wi-Fi and cellular on iPhones is about 223 MB per user per month, while the average among Android, BlackBerry and Symbian phone users is 59 MB a month; social media apps account for 11 percent of all smartphone usage and Facebook accounted for 210 minutes of the average user’s smartphone time in a month. Twitter accounted for 107 minutes of an average user’s time in a month.
The International Trade Commission determined that a U.S. industry is not materially injured or threatened with material injury by reason of imports of certain steel wheels from China that the International Trade Administration has determined are subsidized and sold in the U.S. at less than fair value.
This is a reminder that, as set forth in its February 14, 2012 final rule, the International Trade Administration will calculate antidumping rates in a manner which provides offsets for non-dumped comparisons (i.e., no “zeroing”) while adopting a new monthly average-to-average calculation methodology as its default practice, for all administrative reviews where the preliminary results are issued after April 16, 2012. Note that this elimination of zeroing is a matter of policy; the amended regulations do not specify the provision of offsets. Furthermore, alternative methodologies may still be utilized by ITA in exceptional circumstances, although the ITA does not specify what these circumstances may be.
The International Trade Commission determined on April 13, 2012 that there is a reasonable indication that a U.S. industry is materially injured by reason of imports of drawn stainless steel sinks from China that are allegedly subsidized and sold in the U.S. at less than fair value. As a result, the ITA will continue to conduct its countervailing and antidumping duty investigations on imports of this product from China, with its preliminary countervailing duty determination due on or about May 25, 2012, and its preliminary antidumping duty determination due on or about August 8, 2012. Subsequent ITC notice (FR Pub 04/20/12) available here. (ITA Case No. A-570-983 / C-570-984; ITC Case No. 701-TA-489 / 731-TA-1201)
The International Trade Administration is publishing notices in the April 16, 2012, 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):