The International Trade Administration has issued the final results of its antidumping duty administrative review of certain frozen warmwater shrimp from India for the period of February 1, 2007 through January 31, 2008.
The International Trade Administration has issued the final results of its antidumping duty administrative review of certain cased pencils from China for the period of December 1, 2006 through November 30, 2007.
The International Trade Administration has issued its preliminary results of the following antidumping duty administrative reviews:
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 its preliminary results of the following antidumping duty administrative reviews:
A preliminary investigation by the Department of Justice and letter by Sen. Herb Kohl, D-Wis., on wireless competition likely will not lead to much, but will send a clear signal to the FCC about the need to ask more questions, Stifel Nicolaus said Wednesday in a research report. “We do not think legislation or antitrust enforcement action is likely, certainly not in the near term,” the research firm said. “But we do see the stepped-up attention as increasing pressure on the FCC to take action on some subset of the issues and on the industry to consider modifying some of their practices.” FCC officials said this week it remains unclear what follow up steps, if any, the commission may take under Chairman Julius Genachowski. He and his staff are still in the process of meeting with FCC staff and getting a better handle on various issues confronting the agency. “We see this week’s DOJ and Senate antitrust actions as significant more for the informal pressure they put on industry and the support (or pressure) they provide the new FCC as it considers the range of issues including special access, roaming, [handset] exclusivity, and spectrum,” Stifel Nicolaus said. “Ultimately, the agency may find ways to address the competitive concerns without re-regulating, such as encouraging the carriers to extend to handset exclusivity the model they set by reducing early termination fees, making additional spectrum available to promote competitive backhaul facilities, or extending conditions to merger reviews. But we believe there will be intractable issues without a happy ending where the FCC will need to make the tough decisions whether to increase regulation.”
Sen. Herb Kohl, chairman of the Judiciary Committee’s antitrust subcommittee, asked the Justice Department and the FCC to investigate uncompetitive practices in the wireless industry. The Wisconsin Democrat chaired a hearing June 16, which examined many of the issues raised in the letter. Kohl had decided to send the letter before news broke this week that DoJ had taken preliminary steps toward a more formal investigation (CD June 7 p1), Hill sources said Tuesday.
The International Trade Administration has issued its preliminary results of the following antidumping duty administrative review:
The Department of Justice, urged on by small wireless carriers, launched a preliminary investigation of handset exclusivity agreements between large carriers and equipment makers, plus other competitiveness issues, industry sources said Monday. The “preliminary” investigation was reported Monday on The Wall Street Journal’s website. A Justice Department spokeswoman had no comment.
The Justice Department, urged on by small wireless carriers, launched a preliminary investigation of handset exclusivity agreements between large carriers and equipment makers, plus other competitiveness issues, industry sources said Monday. The “preliminary” investigation was reported Monday on The Wall Street Journal’s website. A Justice Department spokeswoman had no comment. Donald Russell, a DoJ antitrust lawyer during the Clinton administration, said such a probe would likely start with investigators asking preliminary questions and seeking information to be submitted on a voluntary basis. “From there you will often see a formal request for documents and information called a civil investigative demand, a CID,” Russell said. He told us exclusive handset agreements likely do not violate antitrust laws. “In general antitrust law permits companies to enter into exclusive arrangements unless there’s a very specific competitive problem that would result from that,” he said “To have such a competitive problem you typically need to have at least one of the firms involved be in a dominant position.” An investigation is welcome news for small carriers, said Caressa Bennet, counsel to the Rural Telecommunications Group. Public Knowledge President Gigi Sohn said a probe is long overdue. “Consumers have suffered over the past 10 years as the industry has consolidated and strengthened its hold over which services can be offered and which equipment can be used.” The NoChokepoints coalition said the focus of any investigation should be on “the clearly anti-competitive rates, terms and conditions imposed by AT&T and Verizon on the high-capacity broadband market, also known as special access.” But other industry executives questioned the extent to which even a preliminary investigation is underway. “We haven’t had any indications from the DoJ about any such review,” said David Fish, spokesman for Verizon. “We certainly haven’t been contacted” by DoJ, a CTIA spokesman said.