U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued an ADD/CVD message which contains adjusted antidumping duty rates under the International Trade Administration's amended preliminary affirmative AD duty determination on certain seamless carbon and alloy steel standard, line, and pressure pipe from China
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.)
The International Trade Administration has issued a fact sheet announcing its affirmative final determinations in the antidumping and countervailing duty investigations of certain wire decking from China.
The International Trade Administration has issued a notice that it is postponing the preliminary determination in the antidumping duty investigation of drill pipe from China.
Bad-faith .eu domain name registrations can be proven only after consideration of all relevant factors, particularly the circumstances under which the trademark underlying the domain was obtained and in which the .eu name was registered, the European Court of Justice said Thursday. Austrian company Internetportal und Marketing registered the domain “www.reifen.eu” during the “sunrise” registration period open only to holders of prior rights and public bodies, the court said. The name was based on its trademark “&R&E&I&F&E&N&,” which it had registered in Sweden for safety belts, it said. But it intended to run an Internet site for tires ("reifen” in German), it said. To register the name during the sunrise period, the company eliminated the “&s” from the name because of EU law barring use of such special characters, the court said. The company also applied for registration of 180 domain names consisting of generic terms, it said. The owner of the Benelux trademark “reifen,” registered for window cleaning products, challenged the Austrian registration. Arbitrators found it had been registered in bad faith and transferred it to the reifen trademark owner, the court said. The issue is in the Austrian Supreme Court, which asked the ECJ for a preliminary ruling on the criteria for determining a bad faith registration. The court said bad faith can be established by circumstances other than those set out in EU rules, because the list isn’t exhaustive. In determining the circumstances in which a trademark was registered, the focus should be on: (1) Whether there’s intent not to use the trademark in the market for which protection was sought. (2) The “unusual and linguistically irrational” presentation of the trademark. (3) The fact that a large number of other trademarks corresponding to generic terms was registered. (4) The fact that the trademark was registered just before the beginning of phased registration of .eu domain names. In considering whether the .eu registration was in bad faith, the court said, key factors are whether special characters or punctuation marks were used abusively to apply EU transcription rules; whether the organization registered a trademark obtained under questionable circumstances during the sunrise period; and whether the entity also applied for registration of many domain names corresponding to generic terms. If Interportal und Marketing hadn’t tried to register a trademark created solely for the purpose of obtaining a desired domain name during the .eu sunrise period, it would have had to wait until the general registration period, when it could have been pre-empted like anyone else interested in the domain, under the first come-first served principle, the ECJ said. The applicant’s conduct was “manifestly intended” to circumvent the phased process, it said.
CBP has posted the fiscal year 2010 preliminary Continued Dumping and Subsidy Offset Act of 2000 (commonly referred to as the Byrd Amendment) amounts available as of April 30, 2010, which provides information on the amounts available to disburse by case.
The NTIA has determined that pairing the 1755-1780 MHz band with AWS-3 spectrum for a mobile broadband auction won’t be possible, at least in a quick timeframe, based on its preliminary review, Administrator Lawrence Strickling told a Public Knowledge spectrum conference Thursday. He said the nearby 1675-1710 MHz band offers more hope (CD June 3 p1), but more must be known about how that spectrum is being used before the agency can make any recommendations.
The FCC should clarify rules that will govern the wireless communications service band fixed customer premises equipment, the WCS Coalition told representatives of the Office of Engineering and Technology and Wireless and International bureaus. The coalition asked about the rationale behind the ban on use of outdoor antennas connected to fixed CPE, said the ex parte filing. It also asked if the new rules are intended to apply a 1 percent exception to the 1 MHz measurement procedure to all WCS channel edges, it said. The WCS Coalition also asked about the intent of rules on the sharing of preliminary network design information with satellite radio providers.
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.
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.)