The International Trade Administration has issued antidumping duty orders for uncovered innerspring units from South Africa and Vietnam.
The International Trade Administration has issued its final results of the antidumping duty administrative review of individually quick frozen red raspberries from Chile for the period of July 1, 2006 through June 30, 2007.
The International Trade Administration has issued its final results of the antidumping duty administrative review of canned pineapple fruit from Thailand for the period of July 1, 2006 through June 30, 2007.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued a memorandum regarding the impact of Presidential Proclamation 8323, which granted Mauritius preferential tariff treatment accorded to designated African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) lesser developed beneficiary sub-Saharan African countries and suspended Bolivia from the list of countries eligible to receive benefits under the Andean Trade Promotion and Drug Eradication Act (ATPDEA). CBP has updated programming to allow the use of HTS 9819.11.12 for goods from Mauritius entered or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption on or after October 31, 2008. CBP will no longer allow claims under HTS 9821.11.25 for textile goods from Bolivia effective December 15, 2008. (See ITT's Online Archives or 12/05/08 news, 08120505, for BP summary on Proclamation 8323.) (QBT-08-119, dated 12/04/08, available at http://www.cbp.gov/linkhandler/cgov/trade/trade_programs/textiles_and_quotas/qbts/qbt2008/qbt_08_119.ctt/qbt_08_119.pdf)
The International Trade Administration has issued its final results of the antidumping duty administrative review of certain polyester staple fiber from Korea for the period of May 1, 2006 through April 30, 2007.
The International Trade Administration has issued its final results of the antidumping duty administrative review of carbazole violet pigment 23 (CVP 23) from India for the period of December 1, 2006 through November 30, 2007.
According to Federal Maritime Commission sources, on November 17, 2008, the FMC filed a motion seeking to block, on a preliminary basis, certain portions of the Los Angeles and Long Beach Port's Clean Truck Program (CTP) pending a decision by the U.S. District Court for the District of Colombia on the merits of the FMC's complaint seeking a permanent injunction against aspects of FMC Agreement No. 201170-001. Motion for preliminary injunction and ancillary documents available at http://www.fmc.gov/home/FMCFilesComplaintReLALGBAgreement.asp
The only way to calm the privacy worries of patients about their health information in an electronic environment is to ensure that they control the data, William Yasnoff, managing partner of NHII Advisors, said on a panel at the eHealth Initiative conference. Yasnoff co-presented with Katherine Ball, director of health sciences informatics at Johns Hopkins University. Yasnoff is the CEO and Ball the director of informatics of Patient Privacy Certified.
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.
Iridium has several willing partners wanting to be secondary customers on its next-generation satellite constellation, CEO Matt Desch told investors Wednesday. “It is a race to see who gets the space. There is more interest in it than I will be able to accommodate. It is called a secondary payload for a reason. We are primarily a communications company.” The secondary payloads will weigh only 110 pounds while each craft will weigh nearly 1,800 pounds, Desch said. He expects there will only be one or two payload partners.