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 Office of Textiles and Apparel has posted to its Web site monthly reports containing official August 2009 trade data from the Census Department for U.S. imports and exports of textiles and apparel.
The International Trade Administration has issued the final results of an antidumping duty changed circumstances review of certain frozen warmwater shrimp from Thailand.
The International Trade Administration has initiated a countervailing duty investigation to determine whether manufacturers, producers, or exporters of seamless pipe in the China receive countervailable subsidies.
The claims of “irreparable harm” that CE and IT makers say they'll suffer if New York City puts its e-waste program into effect “are remote, speculative and not at all imminent,” the city said in papers filed Friday at the U.S. District Court in Manhattan opposing the preliminary injunction that manufacturers seek to block the program. The city said it’s New York residents who would “suffer great hardship” if the e-waste program is further delayed because the program “addresses pressing environmental, public health and worker safety concerns that continue as long as e-waste remains in the general solid waste stream.”
The International Trade Administration has issued the final results of its antidumping duty administrative review of purified carboxymethylcellulose from Mexico for the period of July 1, 2007 through June 30, 2008.
The International Trade Administration has initiated an antidumping duty investigation to determine whether certain seamless carbon and alloy steel standard, line, and pressure pipe from China is being, or is likely to be, sold in the U.S. at less than fair value.
A top Department of Justice economist warned Friday against putting in place hard definitions for what constitutes broadband or whether markets are competitive. Speaking at an FCC broadband workshop on market power and competition, Carl Shapiro, economist for the department’s Antitrust Division, said regulators naturally want to ask whether a market is competitive, but that question may make little sense when it comes to broadband. A top Federal Trade Commission economist offered similar advice.
Maps in a draft ITU-R recommendation on where to locate International Mobile Telecommunications stations operating in the 3,400-3,600 MHz band may incorrectly suggest that deploying the technologies in the coordination zones is impossible, Sweden will tell a study group meeting this week on the mobile technologies, said a source familiar with the country’s position. Sweden noted the large size of the zones and the significant number of base stations to coordinate. Sweden and a group of nine companies said mitigation techniques could spur further deployments. Further study is needed for the most efficient spectrum use, the group said. The companies were Alcatel-Lucent France, Alcatel-Lucent USA, Telefon AB-LM Ericsson, Motorola, Nokia Corporation, Nokia Siemens Networks, France Telecom Orange, Societe Francaise du Radiotelephone and Telefonica O2. The draft recommendation offers three methods to decide in bilateral or multilateral talks whether an IMT base or mobile station in the 3.4-3.6 GHz band would meet power flux density requirements in the Radio Regulations. Satellite interests have given the draft recommendation preliminary approval. But rules required them to give mobile interests a chance to consider it.
A federal appeals court on Friday denied a last-minute request by the government seeking a 30-day delay of a district judge’s order to release documents detailing telcos’ lobbying efforts seeking immunity for any involvement in the government’s warrantless surveillance program (CD Sept 28 p10). The government may renew the appeal after “presentation to the district court and the district court’s issuance of an order granting or denying the motion,” said the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco. Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Jeffrey White in San Francisco denied the government’s motions to postpone and reconsider a Sept. 24 order requiring the documents’ disclosure by Friday. “The Court is not persuaded that it should exercise its discretion to stay its own order pending ‘necessary consultations and deliberations to determine whether to appeal’ the Court’s Order,” White wrote. “The disputed documents were the subject of an order granting preliminary injunction dated April 2008, a subsequent delay in order for Defendants to re-evaluate their position subject to the reformed regulations of the Obama Administration, and the matter has been submitted on the parties’ cross-motions long enough for the Defendants to consider their options regarding a possible appeal in the event their motion was denied.” White said he turned down the request for reconsideration because no new facts, laws or arguments have emerged since the court issued the order. The government defendants “reargue points previously asserted to the Court and, in essence, merely express their disagreement with the Court’s decision.” The Justice Department and Office of the Director of National Intelligence responded late Thursday with an emergency motion at the 9th Circuit. The government said the solicitor general needs until Nov. 8 “to conduct the necessary consultations and deliberations regarding the appeal decision.” Without a delay, “the confidentiality of the documents will be irretrievably lost and this Court will be deprived of its ability to review the district court’s order,” it said.