FCC Commissioner Meredith Baker wants a spectrum policy plan that’s not just a “subset” of the National Broadband Plan, she said at a Phoenix Center event Thursday. The “cross-governmental long-term strategic framework” on spectrum “should be one of our major efforts of 2010 and should chart the government’s course well into the decade,” she said. The plan would include a spectrum inventory and a review of secondary market rules, she said. “By taking full stock of our spectrum resources and how they are being used, and adapting secondary market and service rules to the changed conditions and technologies we have today, I think we can make great strides to help ensure that the U.S. consumers are the beneficiaries of a world-class mobile broadband infrastructure.”
The International Trade Administration has issued a notice that it is postponing the preliminary determination in the countervailing duty investigation of certain potassium phosphate sales from China.
The International Trade Administration has issued an amended preliminary antidumping duty determination in its investigation of polyethylene retail carrier bags (PRCBs) from Indonesia.
The International Trade Administration has issued notices that it is postponing the preliminary determinations in the countervailing duty investigations of certain coated paper from Indonesia and of certain seamless carbon and alloy steel standard, line, and pressure pipe from China.
The International Trade Administration has issued the final results of its antidumping duty administrative review of certain lined paper products from China for the period of September 1, 2007 through August 31, 2008.
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 an antidumping duty changed circumstances review of saccharin from China, and has preliminarily determined that there is insufficient evidence of changed circumstances to warrant revocation of the order.
Government sources indicate that there is "high confidence" that current ITDS funding - $22 million carried over from prior years plus the $6 million requested by the Administration for FY 2010 - will be sufficient to fund "basic functionality" for the International Trade Development System. Basic functionality includes collecting and storing data and making it available to the Participating Government Agencies. (Note that the 2009 ITDS Annual Report indicates that this basic functionality would not wait for ACE; the data would be collected using ABI and made available to PGAs through the ACE Data Warehouse.)
CBP issued a CSMS messagestating that beginning on November 26, 2009, at approximately 5:00pm EST, ISF transactions stopped sending responses to the trade. The problem was identified and corrected within CBP's system. As the significant backlog began processing, the system again stopped sending responses to the trade at 11:38pm EST to both the backlog and current transactions. CBP issued another CSMS message stating that it began sending responses on the afternoon of November 27, 2009 to clear the large backlog of transactions that had built up. The system was current in sending back response messages to the trade. However, there were still a number of ISF transactions that may not have received a response if they were submitted between 8:43pm EST on November 26, 2009 and 11:23 am EST on November 27, 2009. CBP asks that the trade not resubmit these jobs as they will likely result in duplicate transaction errors.
The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative has issued a notice inviting applications from eligible individuals wishing to be included on the North American Free Trade Agreement Chapter 19 roster of individuals to serve on binational panels convened to review final determinations in antidumping or countervailing duty proceedings and amendments to the AD/CV statutes of a NAFTA party.