The International Trade Administration has issued the final results of its antidumping duty administrative review of freshwater crawfish tail meat from China for the period of September 1, 2007 through August 31, 2008.
The International Trade Administration has issued the final results of its antidumping duty administrative review of certain tissue paper products from China for the period of March 1, 2007 through February 29, 2008.
A senior Department of Justice economist warned Friday against hard definitions of broadband and of competitive markets. Speaking at an FCC staff workshop on market power and competition, Carl Shapiro, an economist in the department’s antitrust division, said regulators naturally want to ask whether a market is competitive, but the question may make little sense in relation to broadband. A top Federal Trade Commission economist offered similar advice.
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 (WID Sept 28 p8). 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. Late Friday, DoJ and the intelligence director’s office submitted yet another emergency motion for a stay back at the district court. “We respectfully request that the Court act on the motion today to provide time for defendants to resubmit the motion to the Ninth Circuit today, if this Court denies it, before the disclosure deadline of October 9 expires.”
The International Trade Administration has issued its preliminary results of the following antidumping duty administrative and new shipper reviews:
The International Trade Administration has issued the final results of its antidumping duty administrative review of chlorinated isocyanurates from Spain for the period of June 1, 2007 through May 31, 2008.
The International Trade Administration has issued the final results of its antidumping duty administrative review of non-frozen apple juice concentrate from China for the period of June 1, 2007 through May 31, 2008.
The International Trade Administration has issued a notice requesting comments on its 2009 calculation of expected non-market economy (NME) wages for use as the surrogate value for direct labor in antidumping proceedings involving NME countries.
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 final results of antidumping duty new shipper reviews of fresh garlic from China for the review period of November 1, 2007 through June 9, 20081.