The Office of Textiles and Apparel has issued monthly reports containing official April 2011 trade data from the Census Bureau for U.S. imports and exports of textiles and apparel.
The FCC’s Emergency Access Advisory Committee is expected to release on June 28 a report on its online survey of emergency calling for persons with disabilities, said Cheryl King, the FCC staffer assigned to the group. King encouraged task force members, who met Friday at the FCC, to pay particular attention to a section of the report on how calls will be made to 911 in the future as technology and devices evolve. The section “has been of great interest,” she said: “I think that will totally inform us in a very particular way when we sit down to the task of writing the recommendations that we are charged with writing.” The EAAC spent much of the meeting on preliminary discussion of its “blue sky” report on the future of emergency communications for the disabled. “What we need to do in our role here is more than just a survey, but also dreaming up what the future is going to be,” said Joel Ziev, representing Partners for Access on the EAAC. “The future is five, 10, 15 years from now. … What we really need to look at are ways in which to communicate with 911 in a newer, a different way that we haven’t really thought about yet.” The aging population means there will be more people in the U.S. with disabilities, he said. “Many will become deaf or hard of hearing. Many will become blind.”
The International Trade Administration is publishing notices 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 a subsequent ITT article):
The International Trade Administration has issued the preliminary results of the first administrative review of the countervailing duty order on citric acid and certain citrate salts from China (C-570-938) covering the period September 19, 2008 through January 16, 2009, and May 29, 2009 through December 31, 20091. Interested parties are invited to comment on these preliminary results.
The International Trade Administration has issued the preliminary results of the first administrative review of the antidumping duty order on citric acid and certain citrate salts from China (A-570-937) covering the period November 20, 2008 through May 19, 2009, and May 29, 2009 through April 30, 20101. Interested parties are invited to comment on these preliminary results.
AT&T and T-Mobile made their case for why the FCC should approve their proposed merger in a 229-page “joint opposition” to the dozens of petitions filed by merger opponents last month (CD June 2 p4). Support for the merger is wide and deep and the deal is critical to getting AT&T the spectrum it needs going forward as demand for wireless continues to accelerate, AT&T argues. The filing invokes the name of the primary opponent of the merger, Sprint Nextel, more than 370 times, compared to, for example, only 35 times for Free Press and 17 for Public Knowledge.
The International Trade Administration is publishing notices 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 a subsequent ITT article):
The International Trade Administration has issued the final results of the first antidumping duty administrative review of citric acid and certain citrate salts from Canada (A-122-853)for the period November 20, 2008 through May 19, 2009, and May 29, 2009 through April 30, 20101.
The ITU scheduled a workshop Sept. 1 and 2 on taxation of telecommunications services and related products, the directors of the Telecommunication Standardization Bureau and the Telecommunication Development Bureau said in a letter to members. Some countries, in preparation for the 2012 World Conference on International Telecommunications, have suggested provisions prohibiting international double taxation are needed (CD April 8 p7). The conference will update the International Telecommunication Regulations. Speakers include attorneys from law firm Baker & McKenzie who will talk about international double taxation of telecom services; Martin Cave of the London School of Economics, who will speak about the economic impact of taxation; and Gabriel Solomon of the GSM Association, who will speak about the preliminary findings in a global mobile tax review.
The FCC and Federal Emergency Management Agency will conduct the first “top to bottom” nationwide test of the emergency alert system on Nov. 9 at 2 p.m. EST, both agencies said Thursday. The test is expected to last up to three and a half minutes. The government will base the national test on two EAS tests the government recently conducted in Alaska (CD Feb 3 p5).