The State Department has submitted its preliminary plan for retrospective regulatory review and analysis under Executive Order 13563 to the Office of Management and Budget, and is simultaneously providing it to the public for review. Comments on the Department’s preliminary plan will be accepted until June 30, 2011.
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 its first antidumping duty administrative review of steel wire garment hangers from China (A-570-918) for the period of March 25, 2008 through November 30, 2009.
The International Trade Administration has issued the final results of its antidumping duty administrative review of certain cased pencils from China (A-570-827) for the period of December 1, 2008 through November 30, 2009.
The International Trade Administration has issued the final results of its countervailing duty changed circumstances review of certain pasta from Italy (C-475-819) and is revoking the order, in part, with regard to gluten-free pasta. Gluten-free pasta was removed from the scope of the companion AD order in 2009.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued a final rule, effective May 12, 2011, amending its regulations concerning the mandatory electronic transmission of inward foreign manifests for vessels transporting bulk and certain break bulk cargo to the U.S. to make several technical corrections, including removing obsolete language that refers to vessel carriers who do not transmit cargo declaration information electronically (non-automated carriers).
LightSquared’s recent discussion with the FCC about a technical working group is raising real concerns for the co-chair of the group, the U.S. GPS Industry Council. USGIC Executive Director Michael Swiek voiced worries that the LightSquared meeting, which was only between LightSquared representatives and FCC staff (CD May 10 p14), could “mislead or cause confusions with respect to the status of Working Group activities,” it said in an FCC filing. LightSquared and the USGIC are heading an FCC-required working group that’s investigating potential interference issues between LightSquared’s planned terrestrial service and GPS service operating in neighboring spectrum. A final report is due to the FCC by June 15.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued a notice announcing that the calendar year 2011 in-quota (low duty) tariff rate quota quantity for tuna and skipjack (tuna), in airtight containers, not in oil, weighing with their contents not over 7 kilograms each, that is not the product of any U.S. insular possession, as described in HTS 1604.14.22 (6% duty) has been set at 18,148,537 kg.
The International Trade Administration is initiating and issuing the preliminary results of an antidumping duty changed circumstances (CC) review of polyethylene terephthalate film, sheet, and strip (PET film) from Korea (A-580-807).
The International Trade Administration is publishing a "Timken"1 notice that a recent court ruling is not in harmony with the ITA's final AD determination on steel threaded rod from China (A-570-932), and is amending its final determination and order to reduce the AD duty rate for one exporter/producer combination.