The International Trade Administration has issued a notice stating that it is postponing the preliminary antidumping duty determinations on certain steel nails from China and the United Arab Emirates to January 15, 2008.
The International Trade Administration has made a preliminary affirmative countervailing duty determination that countervailable subsidies are being provided to producers and exporters of circular welded carbon quality steel pipe (CWP) from China.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued an ABI administrative message stating that some preliminary periodic monthly statements were erroneously sent out of ACE on November 11, 2007 - these should be ignored. They should not have been sent until Friday, November 16, 2007. Some debit authorizations are now being rejected, and CBP is in the process of making ACS corrections to allow debit authorizations to process successfully. Rejected debit authorizations need to be retransmitted once the fix is completed in ACS, which was expected to occur no later that close of business on November 13, 2007. (Adm: 07-0253, dated 11/03/07, available at http://www.brokerpower.com/cgi-bin/adminsearch/admmsg.view.pl?article=2007/2007-0253.ADM.)
New Games: Capcom will ship the Nintendo DS game Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney in North America during “early 2008,” it said Friday. The game is already a hit in Japan. (See the separate report in this issue)… In its sixth week available, Microsoft’s Xbox 360 game sequel Halo 3 was again the top-rented videogame in the U.S., according to Rentrak’s preliminary Home Video Essentials data for the week ended Nov. 4. The only new release in the top 10 was The Simpsons Game for PS2 from Electronic Arts at No. 8… Nintendo of America expected a large turnout at a Sunday night launch event for the new Wii game Super Mario Galaxy at its Nintendo World Store in New York City… Master recordings from the rock groups Foo Fighters and Velvet Revolver were the first downloadable track packs made available for the Xbox 360 version of Activision’s new Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock. The separate packs were made available on Xbox Live Marketplace and will be released on the PlayStation Store for the PS3 version of the game later this month, Activision said, adding more tracks will be made available later this month. Not clear at our deadline was whether Activision plans to offer similar packs for the Wii version of the game. Activision also shipped a dual pack of the first two Guitar Hero games exclusively for PS2, at $59.99.
Although the Transportation Security Administration has posted few specifics, a July 2007 Congressional Research Service (CRS) report states that TSA expected to deploy an Air Cargo Risk Based Targeting (ACRBT) program that would build upon the known shipper program in FY 2008.
GENEVA - Countries in the Americas have united on frequencies for International Mobile Telecommunications, but significant obstacles remain before global consensus is reached. A new CITEL (Inter-American Telecommunication Commission) proposal groups the remaining proposed frequencies for IMT in a package, said Richard Russell, U.S. ambassador to the WRC. “There is no question that the final resolution … is going to be a package,” he said. IMT is the ITU global standard for advanced mobile wireless communications.
The International Trade Administration has issued two notices amending the final antidumping duty determinations and the AD duty order on certain automotive replacement glass windshields from China in order to revise the AD duty rate of two companies, as there are now final and conclusive court decisions in these proceedings.
The International Trade Administration has issued the final results of its antidumping duty new shipper review of certain steel concrete reinforcing bars from Turkey for the period of April 1, 2006 through September 30, 2006.
AT&T and Verizon Wireless urged the FCC to reject petitions to reconsider its revised roaming rules, filed last month. The Bells said the petitions would reopen questions resolved by the agency. But with AT&T and Verizon essentially lined up against the rest of the wireless industry, industry sources said Wednesday the FCC appears poised to eliminate or at least limit the “home roaming” exclusion. Under it, a carrier doesn’t have to honor a request from a counterpart with spectrum in a market, even if the spectrum hasn’t been cleared to allow network buildout. Commission sources agreed that the agency is likely to limit the exception.
On November 3, 2007, the USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service issued an announcement stating that they have instituted additional interim import requirements for meat and poultry products from Canada, pending the preliminary findings of an audit of the Canadian Food Safety System that will focus on Ranchers Beef, Ltd., a Canadian firm, and other similar Canadian establishments, that export beef to the U.S.