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 preliminary results of an antidumping duty changed circumstances review of ball bearings and parts thereof from France to determine whether SKF Aeroengine France S.A.S.U. is the successor-in-interest to SNFA S.A.
The International Trade Administration has issued its preliminary results of the following antidumping duty administrative reviews:
The International Trade Administration has issued its preliminary results of the following antidumping duty administrative reviews:
The International Trade Administration has issued its preliminary results of the following antidumping and countervailing duty administrative reviews:
The FTC said it got a court order to shut down a “rogue” ISP that “recruits, knowingly hosts, and actively participates in” distribution of spam, child porn, malware and phishing scams. Pricewert, also doing business as 3FN and APS Telecom, advertised its services in “the darkest corners of the Internet,” including a forum set up for communications among criminals, the FTC said. The ISP either ignored warnings from Internet security companies or shifted “criminal elements” to other IP addresses it controls “to evade detection,” the agency said. Pricewert also recruited so-called bot herders and hosted “command and control servers,” as evidenced from instant-messaging logs filed in U.S. District Court in San Jose, Calif., the FTC said. The court has frozen Pricewert’s assets and required its “upstream” providers and data centers to cut it off, with a preliminary injunction hearing scheduled for June 15. The FTC also said Sears had settled FTC claims that it didn’t properly disclose the scope of information that would be collected by tracking software in a desktop application, the subject of a separate class-action lawsuit (WID Jan 9/08 p6). The FTC said in an administrative complaint that Sears offered users $10 to participate in “My SHC Community,” which was advertised as collecting “online browsing” information. In a “lengthy user license agreement” Sears disclosed the full extent of the tracking, though, which the FTC labeled deceptive. Secure sessions on third-party sites were also tracked, revealing the contents of shopping carts, bank statements, prescription drug records and header information in e-mail, as well as offline computer activity, the agency said. Sears agreed to destroy collected information and promised to “clearly and prominently” disclose what it’s tracking in future software before installation and separate from user license agreements.
The International Trade Administration has issued a notice postponing its preliminary determination in the countervailing duty investigation of polyethylene retail carrier bags from Vietnam.
The International Trade Administration has made a preliminary affirmative antidumping duty determination that commodity matchbooks (matchbooks) from India are being, or are likely to be, sold in the U.S. at less than fair value.
The following Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) and Court of International Trade (CIT) cases on antidumping and countervailing duty issues were dated or decided in May 2009.
To speed review of proposals and release of broadband stimulus funds, the NTIA and the RUS should rely on states as consultants, the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners said on Friday. “The states can facilitate this review process and perhaps allow both agencies to release funds much sooner … without state assistance, even with the current schedule, it will be almost impossible to efficiently review the anticipated thousands of applications most predict both will receive, much less rank the proposals according to ARRA-specified criteria, disburse the funds, and monitor grant specific implementations,” NARUC said in a letter to the FCC, and the Agriculture and Commerce Departments. The stimulus law favors projects that can begin immediately, but word that funds likely will be released at year-end has had “an unfortunate and undoubtedly unforeseen unfair impact on grant proposals,” the group said. NARUC urged that, as the stimulus law stipulates, the NTIA and the RUS “[1] allow each State to review and provide a preliminary ranking of applications submitted to provide service in that State and [2] give significant weight to those recommendations.” The group invoked states’ “intimate” familiarity with their own communications, economic environment, geography, and demographics, saying states have “every incentive” to avoid waste. Governors should specify entities to review and rank all applications for projects in their jurisdictions, using NTIA and RUS criteria, NARUC said. ----