The International Trade Administration is publishing notices in the September 30, 2011 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 is issuing a final rule that will amend its regulations governing the effect of an affirmative preliminary determination in antidumping (AD) or countervailing (CV) duty proceedings to no longer allow bonds as a provisional measure (for entries during the time period before an AD or CV order is issued). According to the final rule, cash deposits will normally be the provisional measure used.
The International Trade Administration has issued the final results of its administrative review of the antidumping duty order on polyethylene retail carrier bags from Thailand (A-549-821), which sets AD duty cash deposit rates for eight producers/exporters. These rates, which are officially effective September 28, 2011, are expected to be implemented by U.S. Customs and Border Protection soon.
AT&T made its “first big tactical mistake” in seeking to keep Sprint Nextel from joining the Department of Justice’s case against the AT&T/T-Mobile deal, said Allen Grunes of Brownstein Hyatt, a former DOJ Antitrust Division attorney, during an American Bar Association panel Tuesday. Antitrust lawyers on the panel agreed that the efficiencies produced by the merger will be the critical question if DOJ and AT&T don’t settle and ultimately try the case before Judge Ellen Huvelle.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) special agents executed five federal search warrants in an intellectual property rights investigation related to counterfeit goods in Tampa during the week of September 23, 2011. While this investigation is ongoing, preliminary estimates indicate that the search netted about 50,000 counterfeit items with a manufacturer suggested retail price of nearly $5 million.
The International Trade Administration is publishing notices in the September 27, 2011 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 is publishing notices in the September 26, 2011 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):
Google will have another chance to win an email services contract from the Department of the Interior. The company dropped a lawsuit against the agency in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims that claimed it discriminated in favor of Microsoft. The court had ordered a preliminary injunction after finding Interior didn’t comply with federal procurement rules (WID Jan 7 p6). Interior has agreed to “update its market research” and may issue a new request for information that won’t stop Google from “fairly competing,” the company said in its motion to dismiss.
The FTC said it stopped an online marketing scam that allegedly took more than $450 million from consumers. The defendants, Jesse Willms and his 10 companies, allegedly lured consumers into “free” or “risk-free” offers for weight loss pills and tooth whiteners, the FTC said in a press release. Customers were billed for things they didn’t want or agree to purchase and the defendants provided “false or misleading information to merchant banks in order to acquire credit and debit card processing services.” The preliminary injunction granted by the U.S. District Court in Seattle bans the defendants from selling services that feature a “negative option” in which the seller “interprets consumers’ silence or inaction as permission to charge them,” FTC said. They also are banned from selling services in which consumers “are sent regular shipments of merchandise until they cancel,” it said. Negative-option billing got a publicity boost from the Senate Commerce Committee last year in its investigation of so-called data pass marketing by Affinion, Vertrue and Webloyalty (WID May 20/10 p6).
Judge Ellen Huvelle left little doubt Wednesday she plans to move quickly to consider and rule on the Department of Justice’s lawsuit seeking to block AT&T’s buy of T-Mobile. Huvelle said she wanted to start a trial in mid-February, asking AT&T and DOJ lawyers to confer on a start date. A preliminary hearing on the legal challenge to the transaction took a little more than an hour and was well attended. Among those in the crowd was FCC Wireless Bureau Chief Rick Kaplan and Renata Hesse, aide to Chairman Julius Genachowski on transactions.