China's Ministry of Commerce has released its preliminary ruling on its antidumping investigation on Dispersion Unshifted Single-Mode Optical Fiber imports, which confirm that dumping exists in such imports from the U.S. and EU, and has caused material injury to China’s industry. According to the ruling, importers of such products originated from U.S. and EU should place, starting from February 18, deposits at Chinese Customs in accordance with the dumping margin (4.7 % to 29.1%). The tariff number of the product is 90011000 under Import and Export Tariffs of the People's Republic of China.
The Department of Transportation is seeking comments by April 1, 2011 on a review it is conducting of its existing regulations to evaluate their continued validity and determine whether they are crafted effectively to solve current problems.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted an updated version of its spreadsheet of ACE ESAR A2.2 (Initial Entry Types) programming issues.
The U.S. District Court in Eastern Virginia denied Sony Ericsson’s motion for a preliminary injunction against the use of the Clear marks by Clearwire, a court filing said. Sony Ericsson sued Clearwire for trademark and copyright infringement over the Clear logo that Sony said is far too similar to its own. Clearwire said it’s pleased with the decision. The findings of insufficient evidence of likelihood of confusion and no irreparable harm further support the company’s contention that the lawsuit is without merit, it said. “We expect that the final disposition of the case will be in our favor.” A Sony Ericsson representative didn’t immediately reply to a message seeking comment.
The International Trade Administration frequently issues notices on antidumping and countervailing duty orders, investigations, etc. which Broker Power considers to be "minor” in importance as they concern actions that occur after an order is issued, neither announce nor cause any changes to an order’s duty rates, scope, affected firms, or effective period, etc.
The International Trade Administration has issued the preliminary results of the administrative review of the antidumping duty order on certain frozen warmwater shrimp from China (A-570-893) covering the period February 1, 2009 through January 31, 2010. Interested parties are invited to comment on these preliminary results.
China's Ministry of Commerce (MOC) has announced that it will impose temporary antidumping measures on optical fiber imported from the U.S. and European Union.
The Foreign Agriculture Service issued the following GAIN reports:
Dish Network CEO Charles Ergen’s purchase of bankrupt TerreStar and DBSD and their spectrum could make the DBS company more attractive to AT&T as an acquisition target, Credit Suisse analysts said in a note to investors. Most attention had been on DirecTV, but recent developments make Dish as likely a target, they said. The strategic merits of combining Dish’s DBS business and AT&T’s phone service “are relatively thin,” but the benefits of acquiring the spectrum “are compelling,” the analysts said. Several hurdles stand in the way of a deal, including to Ergen’s takeover of DBSD and TerreStar, Credit Suisse said. Shareholders in DBSD and TerreStar oppose the purchases, and the plans require a bankruptcy judge’s approval. But the regulatory environment has improved for an AT&T takeover, the analysts said. Conditions on an AT&T purchase of a DBS company could resemble those on the Comcast-NBC Universal deal, Wiley Rein lawyer Todd Stansbury said on a conference call about the regulatory considerations. Possible conditions could be obligations to extend broadband deployment, carry public interest programming, and expand local-into-local service, he said. Another plausible condition would be to require AT&T to obey net neutrality rules for a set time, regardless of the result of legal challenges to the FCC’s net neutrality rules, Stansbury said. FCC plans for mobile satellite service spectrum are less clear, and the commission has several choices, said Jennifer Hindin, another Wiley Rein lawyer. Commission rules that keep terrestrial service use of the spectrum ancillary to satellite use could limit use of the frequencies, Credit Suisse said. The FCC is expected to move forward soon on an order for a terrestrial allocation in the S-band, where DBSD and TerreStar’s spectrum is, and add secondary leasing rules throughout the MSS spectrum, Hindin said. How the FCC will handle a notice of inquiry that has raised the idea of incentive auctions is far less clear, she said. Many preliminaries, including congressional approval, must be worked out before incentive auctions can be held, Stansbury said.
BERKELEY, Calif. -- An FTC commissioner made explicit the iron fist of federal legislation beneath the velvet glove of industry self-regulation that the commission left open in a recent privacy report supporting a Do Not Track system for online information. “We will go to Congress to take up this issue” if industry “doesn’t move quickly and sufficiently,” Commissioner Julie Brill said late Wednesday at a Berkeley Center for Law and Technology conference. The December preliminary report left open whether Do Not Track should be required by law.