The California Air Resources Board has released a preliminary draft of California's greenhouse gas cap-and-trade regulation. Release of the preliminary draft regulation marks the beginning of the state's cap-and-trade rulemaking, with consideration of a final proposed draft regulation targeted for the summer of 2010.
The Treasury Department has posted its 2009 report to Congress on the International Trade Data System. The ITDS project is an interagency effort to build an electronic "single-window" system for reporting imports and exports to the government. ITDS will allow traders to make a single electronic report, with the relevant data distributed to the appropriate agencies. (See ITT's Online Archives or 11/10/09 news, 09111010, for initial BP summary on the report) ( posted 11/23/09, available at http://www.itds.gov/xp/itds/whats_new/).
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.
In setback for content owners, court in San Francisco ruled late Mon. that Texan who posted DeCSS on Internet couldn’t be tried in Cal. In L.A. same day, judge seemed inclined to give U.S. court in Cal. jurisdiction in content owners’ suit against Australia-based owner of file-sharing service KaZaA. Meanwhile, in Denmark Tues., individuals who allegedly downloaded copyrighted entertainment from Internet received hefty bills for content after judge there ordered ISPs to reveal subscribers’ identities and locations.
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.
Note that Daily Update on Capitol Hill Trade Actions does not appear in today's issue of International Trade Today. Publication of this feature will resume as new information becomes available.
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 a notice that it is postponing the preliminary determination in the antidumping duty investigation of prestressed concrete steel wire strand from China.
The following were among determinations of the Court of International Trade in cases involving antidumping or countervailing duty law in the period July 1-September 30, 2009. (This is the last part of a three-part series on the third quarter.)
GENEVA -- There’s little agreement about what capabilities and tools are needed for mobile alert broadcasting systems, among countries and standards bodies at this week’s meeting of an ITU-T study group. The U.S. in March floated a preliminary text defining service requirements, among proposals being considered this week. The U.K. wants 3GPP to reserve number resources to support the civil alerting. A draft recommendation on administering those resources will require agreement between countries.