The International Trade Administration has issued a fact sheet announcing its affirmative final determinations in the antidumping and countervailing duty investigations of certain steel wheels from China (A-570-973, C-570-974), its finding of AD critical circumstances for one company and the China-wide entity, and its finding of CV critical circumstances for all other Chinese producers/exporters.
The International Trade Administration is publishing notices in the March 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):
In a consolidation of multiple cases, eight domestic producers of crawfish tail meat, together with tapered roller bearings producer Koyo Corporation of U.S.A and antifriction bearings producer SKF USA, Inc., challenged the constitutionality of the Continued Dumping and Subsidy Offset Act of 2000 (CDSOA, or Byrd Amendment), and the administration of that statute by the International Trade Commission and Customs and Border Protection. Because they had not supported the petitions leading to the AD orders on crawfish tail meat or antifriction bearings, the companies were not included on the ITC’s lists of “affected domestic producers” (ADPs). Among other claims, they argued that the petition support requirement violated their First Amendment free speech, Fifth Amendment equal protection, and Fifth Amendment due process rights.
The International Trade Administration has issued the final results of the administrative review of the antidumping duty order on 1-hydroxyethylidene-1, 1-diphosphonic acid from India (A-533-847) which sets the AD cash deposit rate for one manufacturer/exporter. This rate, which is effective March 15, 2012, is expected to be implemented by U.S. Customs and Border Protection soon.
The International Trade Administration has issued the final results of the administrative review of the antidumping duty order on certain frozen fish fillets from Vietnam (A-552-801) which sets AD cash deposit rates for 13 manufacturer/exporters, continues the Vietnam-wide cash deposit rate from the last review, and rescinds the review with respect to four companies1 that reported no shipments of subject merchandise. These rates, which are effective March 14, 2012, are expected to be implemented by U.S. Customs and Border Protection soon.
A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the International Trade Administration posted to U.S. Customs and Border Protection's Web site as of March 12, 2012, along with the case number(s) and CBP message number, is provided below. These messages are available by searching on the listed CBP message number at http://addcvd.cbp.gov.
Preliminary findings that European telcos are blocking and throttling Internet access show the urgent need for EU net neutrality legislation, citizens’ advocacy group La Quadrature du Net said Monday. It responded to a March 6 report by the Body of European Regulators in Electronic Communications that said fixed and mobile operators are using a wide range of Internet traffic management practices and an equally broad variety of implementation methods and policy justifications for them. BEREC is compiling data for the European Commission on the extent to which net neutrality exists in Europe. The most frequently reported traffic management activities were blocking and/or throttling of peer-to-peer traffic on fixed and mobile networks, and blocking of VoIP traffic, mostly on mobile networks, it said. When blocking or throttling exists, it’s usually done via deep-packet inspection, it said. Around a quarter of the 400 operators who responded to BEREC justify their practices based on “what could be described as ’security and integrity’ concerns” such as fighting spam, though some of those measures are best described as congestion-management techniques, it said. Regarding congestion management, some providers use “application-agnostic” approaches such as active buffering, while others use “application specific” techniques to slow specific traffic such as video streaming, it said. Around one third of the fixed operators manage their networks in order to offer specialized services such as telephony or TV along with a public and best-efforts Internet access service, it said. This is the first time European regulators have tried to identify emerging trends in traffic management, it said. It’s now validating and categorizing the data and plans to publish its findings in Q2, BEREC said. The overview will feed into other BEREC work on net neutrality, it said. The widespread practices prove that Digital Agenda Commissioner Neelie Kroes’ “laissez faire” stance on net neutrality is allowing operators to violate users’ freedoms, La Quadrature said.
Iridium’s next-generation constellation completed the preliminary design review phase in preparation for the planned 2015 launch of the first group of satellites, the company said. It said Iridium and partners will next begin to build engineering model units of the constellation, Iridium Next, before construction begins in 2013.
The International Trade Administration is publishing notices in the March 13, 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):
The International Trade Administration has issued the final results of the administrative review of the antidumping duty order on certain lined paper products from India (A-533-843) which sets AD cash deposit rates for 35 manufacturer/exporters. These rates, which are effective March 13, 2012, are expected to be implemented by U.S. Customs and Border Protection soon.