The Office of Textiles and Apparel has posted to its Web site monthly reports containing official June 2009 trade data from the Census Department for U.S. imports and exports of textiles and apparel.
FairPoint Communications has until Sept. 9 to respond to a demand by Vermont’s Department of Public Service that the company show cause why it should be allowed to continue to provide telecom services in the state, the Public Service Board said on Monday. The show-cause petition claims that FairPoint’s poor performance as a provider should prompt the state to rescind FairPoint’s license to deliver telecom in Vermont (CD July 16 p9). FairPoint has been struggling with debt and the workload involved in taking over systems in Vermont, Maine and New Hampshire that it acquired in 2008 from Verizon. “Since the transaction, FairPoint has been unable to effectively manage the operations in any of the three states, resulting in tremendous problems for residential and business consumers,” the department said in filing the petition. On Monday company president Peter Nixon spoke at three events scheduled by the Vermont board. The order that the company respond to the show-cause petition came as board members considered whether to investigate the company’s performance. Later that day the board held a preliminary hearing on a petition by FairPoint to be allowed to modify the performance standards it’s being held to. At that session it was agreed that all parties will propose a calendar for addressing that request, but no deadline for proposals was set. Nixon also participated in the latest in a series of monthly workshops convened by the regulator on FairPoint’s progress in engineering the transition to its systems of the Verizon networks. No official action emerged from that meeting, a board official told us. The next transition workshop is set for Sept. 18.
RealNetworks was studying its legal options after a court slapped a preliminary injunction against the sale of its RealDVD copying software. The Tuesday judgment could affect a similar case under review, involving Kaleidescape’s home server copies which DVDs for storage on a hard drive (CED June 18 p5).
RealNetworks was studying its legal options after a court slapped a preliminary injunction against the sale of its RealDVD copying software. The Tuesday judgment could affect a similar case under review, involving Kaleidescape’s home server copies which DVDs for storage on a hard drive (WID June 18 p3).
The International Trade Administration has issued a notice that it is postponing the preliminary determination in the countervailing duty investigation of wire decking from China.
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The International Trade Administration has issued its preliminary results of the following antidumping duty administrative reviews:
The International Trade Administration has issued a notice that it is postponing the preliminary determination in the countervailing duty investigation of prestressed concrete steel wire strand from China.
CEA and the ITI Council brought out their big guns to fortify their preliminary injunction motion Friday that manufacturers will suffer “irreparable harm” if New York City is allowed to enforce its controversial e-waste law.
The International Trade Administration has issued an affirmative final determination that certain inquiry merchandise produced by Tianjin Iron and Steel Co., Ltd. and/or imported by Toyota Tsusho America is within the class or kind of merchandise subject to the antidumping duty order on certain cut-to-length carbon steel plate from China.