The International Trade Administration has issued a fact sheet announcing its affirmative final determinations in the antidumping and countervailing duty investigations of prestressed concrete steel wire strand (PC strand) from China (A-570-945 and C-570-946).
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued an ADD/CVD message which contains adjusted antidumping duty rates under the International Trade Administration's preliminary affirmative AD duty determination on certain seamless carbon and alloy steel standard, line, and pressure pipe from China (A-570-956).
The Office of Textiles and Apparel has posted to its website monthly reports containing official March 2010 trade data from the Census Department for U.S. imports and exports of textiles and apparel.
The Court of International Trade and the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit decided the following antidumping and countervailing duty law determinations in the first half of May 2010.
The International Trade Administration has issued the final results of its antidumping duty administrative review of certain hot-rolled carbon steel flat products from India (A-533-820) for the period of December 1, 2007 through November 30, 2008.
Nintendo of America (NOA) sued online retailer NXPGame in U.S. District Court in Seattle, alleging its owner, Kevin Niu, sold illegal videogame copiers. NOA investigated a website owned by NXPGame and found that it was selling copiers that enabled consumers to download, play and distribute illegal copies of DS and DSi videogame software, NOA said. After NOA’s attorneys sent the defendant “multiple letters” and phoned him, he agreed to stop selling the copiers and closed his website, it said. But he soon launched an identical business at a different website address, and redirected customers who visited his old site to the new one to buy the same products, it said. One of Niu’s websites also used Nintendo registered trademarks and violated Nintendo copyrights, NOA said. The suit follows the 2009 Nintendo v. Chan case, in which a U.S. District Court in Los Angeles confirmed that game copiers violated the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and are deemed illegal in the U.S., NOA said. Since 2009, Nintendo has supported nearly 1,500 legal actions -- including customs seizures, law-enforcement actions and civil proceedings -- in more than 20 countries that have “resulted in the confiscation of more than 422,000 videogame copiers,” NOA said. It requested unspecified compensatory damages, as well as statutory damages of up to $150,000 for infringement of each Nintendo copyrighted work, up to $200,000 for infringement of each Nintendo trademark and up to $2,500 for each violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. It also asked for a jury trial, preliminary and permanent injunctions, and that the defendant pay all its legal fees, among other things. Niu couldn’t be reached for comment on Friday.
Nintendo of America (NOA) sued online retailer NXPGame in U.S. District Court, Seattle, alleging its owner, Kevin Niu, sold illegal videogame copiers. NOA investigated a website owned by NXPGame and found that it was selling copiers that enabled consumers to download, play and distribute illegal copies of DS and DSi videogame software, NOA said. After NOA’s attorneys sent the defendant “multiple letters” and phoned him, he agreed to stop selling the copiers and closed his website, it said. But he soon launched an identical business at a different website address, and redirected customers who visited his old site to the new one to buy the same products, it said. One of Niu’s websites also used Nintendo registered trademarks and violated Nintendo copyrights, NOA said. The suit follows the 2009 Nintendo v. Chan case, in which a U.S. District Court in Los Angeles confirmed that game copiers violated the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and are deemed illegal in the U.S., NOA said. Since 2009, Nintendo has supported nearly 1,500 legal actions -- including customs seizures, law-enforcement actions and civil proceedings -- in more than 20 countries that have “resulted in the confiscation of more than 422,000 videogame copiers,” NOA said. It requested unspecified compensatory damages, as well as statutory damages of up to $150,000 for infringement of each Nintendo copyrighted work, up to $200,000 for infringement of each Nintendo trademark and up to $2,500 for each violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. It also asked for a jury trial, preliminary and permanent injunctions, and that the defendant pay all its legal fees, among other things. Niu couldn’t be reached for comment on Friday.
The Department of Energy is extending the comment period to May 17, 2010 on its proposed rule and preliminary technical support document on energy conservation standards for central air conditioners and heat pumps. (D/N EE-2008-BT-STD-0006, FR Pub 05/14/10, available at http://www.federalregister.gov/OFRUpload/OFRData/2010-11571_PI.pdf)
The International Trade Administration is issuing a correction to the preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative review of ball bearings and parts thereof from France (A-427-801) for the period May 1, 2008 through April 30, 2009.
The International Trade Administration has made a preliminary affirmative antidumping determination that seamless refined copper pipe and tube from Mexico is being, or is likely to be, sold in the U.S. at less than fair value (A-201-838).