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 published its antidumping duty order on sodium hexametaphosphate from China.
The International Trade Administration has announced that it is initiating a changed circumstances review of the antidumping duty order on ball bearings and parts thereof from Germany.
Germany must rethink parts of its telecommunications traffic data retention law, the Federal Constitutional Court ruled Wednesday. Providers will still have to store the data for six months. But law enforcement agencies will be able to access it only for very severe crimes, not to prosecute misdemeanors or copyright violations, attorney Axel Spies said on behalf of the German Competitive Carriers Association VATM. The court also ordered the government to report on the effect of the law by September, he said. A preliminary injunction will remain in effect for at least six months, giving lawmakers time to change the law, Spies said. Wednesday’s order didn’t deal with reimbursement of communications service providers’ costs, a measure that the VATM has been pushing for, he said.
The International Trade Administration has issued its final results of the antidumping duty administrative review of polyethylene retail carrier bags from China for the period of August 1, 2005 through July 30, 2006.
The Chair of the Departmental Advisory Committee on Commercial Operations of U.S. Customs and Border Protection and Related Homeland Security Functions (COAC)1 has submitted "unofficial" comments on CBP's proposed rule to amend 19 CFR to require Security Filing (SF) information from importers and additional information from carriers (10+2) for vessel (maritime) cargo before it is brought into the U.S.
Regulatory implications of commercial-cognitive radios’ ability to use defense and other government frequencies have upset the U.S. and other countries, said a participant in the ITU-R study group on terrestrial services. The U.S. lacks a policy on cognitive radio, which agencies fear will encroach on their frequencies, the source said. The concerns are over a cognitive radio handset’s ability to tune into a wide range of frequencies, the source said. Regulators taking part in ITU-R probably will say something to the effect that cognitive radio can be used in the International Mobile Telecommunication bands or IMT and specific mobile bands -- but not across a huge swath of spectrum, the source said. A U.S. participant was to discuss cognitive radio at a February ITU-R seminar, but the presentation was killed, because of DoD, NTIA and possibly NASA objections, the source said. Some U.S. agencies resisted the presentation because it took up regulatory issues, the source said. U.S. agencies don’t oppose cognitive radio but don’t want it in their bands, the source said. As the 2011 World Radiocommunication Conference nears, ITU-R participants will “study whether there is a need for regulatory measures related to the application of cognitive radio system technologies,” and “whether there is a need for regulatory measures related to the application of software-defined radio,” according to the preliminary agenda.
Canada released a list of some 30 companies filing to bid in its May auction of advanced wireless services (AWS) spectrum. Unsurprisingly, the list includes wireless carriers Rogers Communications, Telus, and BCE, which together have 95 percent of the country’s wireless market. Canada is offering 105 MHz for sale, including 40 MHz set aside for new entrants, to open the market. All bidders must be at least 53 percent Canadian-owned. New entrant Niagara Networks made the biggest preliminary bid, offering a down payment of C$881 million. The auction begins May 27.
Comcast got preliminary FCC approval to stop providing some domestic telecom services in the Bay Area, an agency notice said Friday. The company can stop service April 15, unless told otherwise by the commission, which wants public comments on the plan by March 31. The cable operator’s ending of some Comcast Digital Phone products will be a “soft disconnect” in which customers have until May 15 to make emergency calls, said the FCC. Comcast contends it is non- dominant in the local exchange, interstate and interexchange markets. Cable operators nationwide are turning off switched circuit phone service to focus on selling VoIP.
The International Trade Administration has made a preliminary affirmative countervailing duty determination that countervailable subsidies are being provided to producers and exporters of lightweight thermal paper (LWTP) from China.