AT&T’s request for a temporary restraining order to stop Verizon’s 3G coverage map ads was rejected by U.S. District Judge Timothy Batten in Atlanta. A preliminary-injunction hearing was scheduled Dec. 16 in the lawsuit, which AT&T filed this month. “While we are disappointed with the court’s decision on our request for a TRO, we still feel strongly that Verizon’s ads mislead consumers into thinking that AT&T doesn’t offer wireless service in large portions of the country, which is clearly not the case,” an AT&T spokesman said. AT&T launched its own commercial hours after the court decision. The ad, featuring actor Luke Wilson, compares the carriers’ 3G speed, service features, applications and devices and claims that AT&T has better 3G services. Verizon had said it would stand by the coverage map depicted in its advertising that AT&T sued over and had called the lawsuit without merit. But the carrier has modified the ad, saying it compares square miles covered with 3G, and voice and data services are available outside that coverage area.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has announced that it is scheduled to deploy ESAR A2.3.1a (antidumping/countervailing duty (AD/CVD) entries in ACE and AD/CVD Case Management) on January 17, 2010.
The International Trade Administration has issued a notice that it is postponing the preliminary determination in the antidumping duty investigation of certain woven electric blankets from China.
The International Trade Administration has issued the preliminary results of its antidumping duty changed circumstances review of ball bearings and parts thereof from France.
AT&T’s request for a temporary restraining order to stop Verizon’s 3G coverage map ads was rejected by U.S. District Judge Timothy Batten in Atlanta. A preliminary-injunction hearing was scheduled Dec. 16 in the lawsuit, which AT&T filed this month. “While we are disappointed with the court’s decision on our request for a TRO, we still feel strongly that Verizon’s ads mislead consumers into thinking that AT&T doesn’t offer wireless service in large portions of the country, which is clearly not the case,” an AT&T spokesman said. AT&T launched its own commercial hours after the court decision. The ad, featuring actor Luke Wilson, compares the carriers’ 3G speed, service features, applications and devices and claims that AT&T has better 3G services. Verizon had said it would stand by the coverage map depicted in its advertising that AT&T sued over and had called the lawsuit without merit. But the carrier has modified the ad, saying it compares square miles covered with 3G, and voice and data services are available outside that coverage area.
On November 19, 2009, U.S. Diplomat to the World Trade Organization Millan told the WTO dispute settlement body that the U.S. intends to comply in the Brazil-initiated dispute over U.S. subsidies to its producers, users, and/or exporters of upland cotton, and therefore, Brazil would not need to levy its WTO-authorized sanctions.
Any action the FCC takes on the Universal Service Fund “will be very cognizant of consumers and will be focused on looking at ways to break savings out of the system, so the impact on consumers can be lessened if at all possible,” Chairman Julius Genachowski told reporters after an FCC meeting Wednesday. A Wall Street Journal article that morning said the FCC was thinking about hiking consumer USF fees and imposing open-access policies. Also, Genachowski said a controversial Harvard University study on broadband should have equal weight with other information in the record.
The Office of Textiles and Apparel has posted to its Web site monthly reports containing official September 2009 trade data from the Census Department for U.S. imports and exports of textiles and apparel.
Core assumptions in the Internet advertising industry’s self-regulatory regime don’t match with consumer awareness and views of such practices, according to a survey by Carnegie Mellon University researchers. Aleecia McDonald, a Ph.D. candidate in the engineering and public policy department, and Lorrie Cranor, associate professor in the department, did in-depth interviews with 14 people who spoke without prompting of their privacy fears from online advertising. Interviewees also showed “substantial confusion” about the entire range of online practices, including the use of first- and third-party cookies, ability to track one’s browsing while logged out of a Web site, and the opt-out processes devised by the Network Advertising Initiative (NAI) and other groups.
The International Trade Administration has issued notices that it is postponing the preliminary determinations in the antidumping duty investigations of narrow woven ribbons with woven selvedge from China and Taiwan.