The Office of Textiles and Apparel (OTEXA) has posted to its Web site monthly reports containing official February 2008 trade data from the Census Department for U.S. imports and exports of textiles and apparel:
The International Trade Administration has made a final affirmative antidumping duty determination that imports of light-walled rectangular pipe and tube from Turkey are being, or are likely to be, sold in the U.S. at less than fair value.
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 initiated and is issuing its preliminary results of an antidumping duty changed circumstances review of carbon and certain alloy steel wire rod from Trinidad and Tobago.
The International Trade Administration has made a preliminary affirmative countervailing duty determination that countervailable subsidies are being provided to producers and exporters of sodium nitrite from China.
The International Trade Administration has issued a notice requesting comments on its 2007 calculation of expected non-market economy (NME) wages for use as the surrogate value for direct labor in antidumping proceedings involving NME countries.
Ubisoft’s Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Vegas 2 for Xbox 360 was again the top-rented videogame in the U.S., according to Rentrak preliminary Home Video Essentials data for the week ended Sunday. But the PS3 version slid one, to No. 6. Army of Two for Xbox 360 from Electronic Arts was again No. 2, in its fifth week available. The PS3 version rose one, to No. 8. Nintendo’s Super Smash Bros. Brawl for Wii and Activision’s Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare for 360 were again Nos. 3 and 4. Sega’s Condemned 2: Bloodshot for 360 was fifth, up one from the previous week.
The International Trade Administration has issued a notice stating that it is postponing the preliminary countervailing duty determination on circular welded austenitic stainless pressure pipe from China by 130 days to no later than June 30, 2008.
Network protocols for speeding peer-to-peer transfers worked nearly as well on U.S. cable networks as they did with Verizon, managed P2P service Pando Networks said. Pando and Verizon lead the Distributed Computing Industry Association P4P Working Group, which is working on ways to get P2P traffic to consume less bandwidth. Verizon reduced P2P traffic from outside its network by more than half, slashing transit costs, in Pando’s tests (WID March 21 p1). Data released Wednesday highlighted results at U.S. cable networks and international broadband networks, to show that Verizon and U.S. telcos aren’t just a P2P speeding fluke, Pando CEO Robert Levitan told us.
The federal government must turn over by April 21 documents related to telecom industry lobbying on the electronic surveillance program, according to a preliminary injunction issued Friday in the 9th U.S. District Circuit Court. The injunction ordered the Justice Department and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence to turn over documents to the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which sued to obtain them. “We went to court over the release of these documents because they could play a critical role in the national debate over telecom immunity,” said EFF Staff Attorney Marcia Hofmann. “We're pleased the judge recognized that time is of the essence here and ordered these agencies to follow the law.” EFF filed a Freedom of Information Act request seeking release of the documents, but the agencies declined to comply. Legislation to grant immunity to the phone companies for their alleged participation in a warrantless surveillance program begun after Sept. 11, 2001, is stalled. A Senate bill provides immunity, but the House has balked and for the moment does not seem inclined to adopt the Senate bill.