The International Trade Administration has issued a fact sheet announcing its affirmative final determinations in the antidumping and countervailing duty investigations of magnesia carbon bricks from China, and in the AD duty investigation for Mexico.
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 final results of its countervailing duty administrative review of certain hot-rolled carbon steel flat products from India for the period of January 1, 2008 through December 31, 2008.
The Association of Public Television Stations supported U.S. District Judge James Mahan’s decision to deny Dish Network’s request for a preliminary injunction that would have blocked the FCC from forcing the company to carry more public TV stations in HD (CD July 23 p16). “APTS is pleased that the court understood that requiring DISH to carry public television stations’ local HD signals is not an undue hardship to DISH,” said Interim President Lonna Thompson. “Simply put, there is no compelling justification for DISH’s continued discriminatory treatment of local public television stations in those markets where it is carrying commercial stations’ HD content.”
The International Trade Administration has issued the final results of its antidumping duty administrative review of saccharin from China for the period of July 1, 2008, through June 30, 2009.
A judge Thursday declined Dish Network’s request to block the FCC from enforcing a law requiring Dish to carry additional public TV in HD. U.S. District Judge James Mahan in Las Vegas said Dish hadn’t met the test for a preliminary injunction. As a result, the company must sign carriage agreements with 30 public stations over the next week or face stricter public HD requirements, as required by the Satellite TV Extension and Localism Act. Failure to reach the agreements would require Dish to meet a government schedule calling for carriage of 50 percent of public stations in HD by year-end. “We are disappointed with the decision, and intend to appeal,” said Dish, which had filed for the injunction on constitutional grounds. “We believe that our customers should be the ones who decide what they want to watch on TV and how they want to watch it. We also believe that it is important to defend those fundamental First Amendment rights."
Qualcomm said it may shed its FLO TV mobile TV business. The company has held preliminary talks with “a number of companies and is considering a number of alternatives,” CEO Paul Jacobs said on Qualcomm’s quarterly earnings teleconference late Wednesday. “We've been pleased by the response that we've gotten and the interest that we've had, although it is very early stages.” Qualcomm is trying to gauge interest in various aspects of the business, including the spectrum it owns, he said. “I would say it will get done in the next year, but I don’t think I can be much more specific than that,” and the timing isn’t firm, Jacobs said. He added, “There are different things that we're trying to do in that process to see whether we can retain some ability to give advantages to our chipsets."
The International Trade Administration is initiating two anti-circumvention inquiries to determine whether certain imports of steel wire garment hangers from Vietnam are circumventing the antidumping duty order on steel wire garment hangers from China (A-570-918).
The International Trade Administration is issuing an antidumping duty order on certain steel grating from China.
The International Trade Administration is issuing a countervailing duty order on certain steel grating from China (C-570-948).