The International Trade Administration has issued the preliminary results of the antidumping and countervailing administrative reviews of polyethylene terephthalate film, sheet, and strip (PET Film) from India (A-533-824 and C-533-825), which lists a proposed estimated AD cash deposit rate of zero and a proposed CV cash deposit rate of 112.95% for Ester Industries Ltd. These proposed rates are not in effect and may be amended.
The International Trade Administration has issued the preliminary results of the antidumping duty administrative review of polyethylene terephthalate film, sheet, and strip (PET Film) from Taiwan (A-583-837) for two companies. The proposed AD estimated cash deposit rates are listed as follows (they are not in effect and may be amended):
The International Trade Administration has issued a final determination that certain tissue paper products produced by Max Fortune (Vietnam) Paper Products Company, Limited (MFVN) and exported to the U.S. are made from jumbo rolls and/or cut sheets of tissue paper produced in China, and are circumventing the antidumping duty order on tissue paper from China (A-570-894).
The International Trade Administration is publishing notices in the 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 initiated a new shipper review for the antidumping duty order on tapered roller bearings and parts thereof, finished and unfinished, from China (A-570-601) at the request of GGB Bearing Technology (Suzhou) Co., Ltd. The ITA will determine if GGB, as producer and exporter, is eligible for an estimated AD cash deposit rate other than the China-wide entity rate it currently receives (92.84%).
Adult publisher Perfect 10 has always been in the red, so it’s not clear why a sought injunction against Google for facilitating copyright infringement would help it now, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in an opinion Wednesday. The owner of the now-defunct magazine Perfect 10 offers a paid-subscription website, perfect10.com, where subscribers can view copyrighted images of nude models for a monthly fee. Perfect 10 argued that Google’s Web search, image search, Blogger service and practice of forwarding image takedown notices to chillingeffects.com, an educational project run by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, unlawfully infringed on Perfect 10’s copyrights. But the appeals court rejected Perfect 10’s arguments that there was a causal relation between Google’s business and irreparable harm to Perfect 10. The appeals court also agreed with the district court’s decision that the company would not suffer irreparable harm in the absence of its request for injunctive preliminary relief. “While being forced into bankruptcy qualifies as a form of irreparable harm … Perfect 10 has not established that the requested injunction would forestall that fate,” said Judge Sandra Ikuta, who wrote the opinion for the three-judge panel. “To begin with, Perfect 10 has not alleged that it was ever in sound financial shape.” Norman Zada, Perfect 10’s founder, claimed that the amount of Perfect 10 thumbnails available on Google increased significantly from 2005 to 2010, and during 1996 to 2007 the company’s revenue declined from $2 million per year to $150,000 per year. But Zada “acknowledges that the company ‘los[t] money at the beginning’ and has never made up that ground during its 15 years of operation,” Ikuta wrote. “Dr. Zada also acknowledges that search engines other than Google contribute to making Perfect 10 images freely available.”
The International Trade Administration has issued a notice that it is postponing the preliminary determinations in the antidumping duty investigations of galvanized steel wire from China and Mexico (A-570-975 and A-201-840), pursuant to a timely request by the petitioners. The ITA finds no compelling reason to deny the request; therefore, it is postponing the deadline for the preliminary determinations by 50 days to October 27, 2011 (extended from September 7).
The International Trade Administration has issued the preliminary results of antidumping duty new shipper reviews of certain preserved mushrooms from China (A-570-851) for two exporter/producer combinations. The proposed AD estimated cash deposit rates are listed as follows (they are not in effect and may be amended):
A service that lets users stream movies on demand, even when played one at a time from hundreds of Internet-connected DVD players in a remote physical location, must license those works from the movie studios, the U.S. District Court in Los Angeles ruled.
A service that lets users stream movies on demand, even when played one at a time from hundreds of Internet-connected DVD players in a remote physical location, must license those works from the movie studios, the U.S. District Court in Los Angeles ruled. Judge John Walter granted the studios’ motion for a preliminary injunction against Zediva (WID April 5 p10) which bills itself as a DVD rental service, and distinguished its business model from that of Cablevision, which won approval from the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for a remote DVR service. Cablevision also disputed in a friend-of-the-court brief that Zediva’s service was anything like its own. Walter gave the studios and Zediva parent WTV Systems until Aug. 8 to draw up a preliminary injunction and then hand it over to him by Aug. 10.