The International Trade Administration has made a preliminary affirmative countervailing duty determination that countervailable subsidies are being provided to producers and exporters of aluminum extrusions from China (C-570-968).
Largely dismissing an April plea from the U.S. Copyright Office to cast the Performance Rights Act (HR-848) in a more favorable light, GAO maintained that the bill would raise costs for broadcasters and boost revenue for the recording industry. A GAO report dated August 2010 and released Friday reached the same conclusion as a February preliminary report made public in June. That earlier version had prompted an April rebuke from the Copyright Office (CD June 8 p11).
An overview of a number of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted to CBP's Web site, along with the case number(s), period covered, and CBP message number, is provided below. (Note that the complete message is only available at http://addcvd.cbp.gov.)
Some ITU member countries are pressing for changes to treaty instruments that may account for data sharing, said a U.S. Internet executive who asked not to be named because of the sensitivity of the preliminary talks in ITU. The Associated Press on Thursday quoted ITU Secretary-General Hamadoun Toure urging BlackBerry’s Canadian manufacturer Research in Motion to give law enforcement agencies around the world access to its customer data. Toure didn’t offer advice to the company, said an ITU spokesman who sat in on the interview. Toure said cybersecurity is an increasingly worrying issue, she said. Toure said governments and the private sector will have to cooperate more closely on the problem, she said. However, a group of 16 Arab countries during an October policy-setting conference wants to expand ITU’s basic mandate and treaty instruments into “ensuring cybersecurity.” A separate 2012 ITU treaty conference may change what telecom issues countries cooperate on, the U.S. executive said. The treaty doesn’t deal with IP-based traffic, the executive said, but some countries could press for rules on ways governments should share data. The idea of updating an ITU treaty to deal with data sharing may sound “immediately seductive,” she said. Proponents would then suggest that governments agreeing to the treaty would have to cooperate, she said. Companies in those countries would be required by the government to comply, she said. The problem is often how they go about it, she said, referring to the possibility that a government may want to go into corporate data for a financial services company. National rules vary widely, the source said. Most privacy commissioners want very strict limits on what can be shared across borders, she said. Justice and increasingly national security officials are now entering the fray, she said.
Mexico's Diario Oficial of September 2, 2010 lists notices from the Secretary of the Economy as follows:
Some ITU member countries are pressing for changes to treaty instruments that may account for data sharing, said a U.S. Internet executive who asked not to be named because of the sensitivity of the preliminary talks in ITU. The Associated Press on Thursday quoted ITU Secretary-General Hamadoun Toure urging BlackBerry’s Canadian manufacturer Research in Motion to give law enforcement agencies around the world access to its customer data. Toure didn’t offer advice to the company, said an ITU spokesman who sat in on the interview. Toure said cybersecurity is an increasingly worrying issue, she said. Toure said governments and the private sector will have to cooperate more closely on the problem, she said. However, a group of 16 Arab countries during an October policy-setting conference wants to expand ITU’s basic mandate and treaty instruments into “ensuring cybersecurity.” A separate 2012 ITU treaty conference may change what telecom issues countries cooperate on, the U.S. executive said. The treaty doesn’t deal with IP-based traffic, the executive said, but some countries could press for rules on ways governments should share data. The idea of updating an ITU treaty to deal with data sharing may sound “immediately seductive,” she said. Proponents would then suggest that governments agreeing to the treaty would have to cooperate, she said. Companies in those countries would be required by the government to comply, she said. The problem is often how they go about it, she said, referring to the possibility that a government may want to go into corporate data for a financial services company. National rules vary widely, the source said. Most privacy commissioners want very strict limits on what can be shared across borders, she said. Justice and increasingly national security officials are now entering the fray, she said.
Dominant Swedish telecom operator TeliaSonera didn’t necessarily violate competition law by maintaining a margin between the wholesale price it charged rivals for access to its ADSL network and the retail price for ADSL it offered consumers so narrow that it lost money competing for downstream services, European Court of Justice Advocate General Ján Mazák said Thursday. His non-binding opinion came in a case in which the Swedish National Competition Authority (NCA) fined the incumbent in 2004 144 million kroner, now the equivalent of about $19 million, for allegedly abusing its dominant position via the “margin squeeze.” TeliaSonera appealed, and the Stockholm District Court asked the ECJ to rule on 10 preliminary questions of EU competition law. The European Commission, NCA and competitor Tele2 argued that TeliaSonera’s actions amounted to a margin squeeze, but Mazák sided with the incumbent’s position that margin squeeze is anti-competitive only where the dominant player is required by regulators to supply the wholesale products or where those products are indispensable for competition. The evidence showed that there are several alternative technologies available in Sweden to provide end-users with broadband, he said. Among other things, the opinion also said: (1) In abusive margin squeeze cases, in principle, only the prices of the dominant player are relevant. (2) Competition authorities must show how the dominant player’s pricing affects competition; a “mere claim that there may be remote, abstract anti-competitive effects will not suffice.” (3) The expectation that the operator will be able to recover its losses isn’t required for a margin squeeze to be abusive because it may in fact not suffer any losses. The EC doesn’t comment on advocate general opinions, said a spokeswoman for Competition Policy Commissioner Joaquín Almunia.
The International Trade Administration has issued its preliminary results of the following antidumping duty administrative reviews:
The International Trade Administration has issued the final results of its antidumping duty administrative review of stainless steel bar from India for the period of February 1, 2008 through January 31, 2009.
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.