The International Trade Administration (ITA) has issued the final results of its countervailing (CV) duty administrative review of certain welded carbon steel standard pipe from Turkey for the period of January 1, 2004 through December 31, 2004.
The International Trade Administration (ITA) has made a final affirmative antidumping (AD) duty determination that imports of certain lined paper products from India are being, or are likely to be, sold in the U.S. at less than fair value.
The International Trade Administration (ITA) has made a final affirmative countervailing (CV) duty determination that countervailable subsidies are being provided to producers and exporters of certain lined paper products from India.
The International Trade Administration (ITA) has issued a notice stating that it is postponing the preliminary antidumping (AD) duty determination on certain activated carbon from China by 50 days to October 4, 2006.
Eric Doctorow has withdrawn from the slate of nominees backed by Lions Gate for control of the Image Entertainment board, Image said in an SEC filing. No reason was given for his withdrawal. Image has urged shareholders to vote down the “dissident” slate on grounds Lions Gate’s nominees lack the industry experience needed for the board or have conflicts of interest (CED Aug 3 p5). Image’s main beef against Doctorow -- the former Paramount Home Entertainment chief -- is that he manages MGM’s DVD catalog for Fox Home Entertainment, a competitor. Lions Gate has tapped cable and movie industries veteran Jack Crosby to replace Doctorow, the filing said. Lions Gate -- Image’s 2nd largest shareholder with about 19% of total shares outstanding -- has said it believes the Image board isn’t acting in the company’s best interests by refusing to explore “strategic alternatives,” including selling the company to Lions Gate. Image twice rebuffed fall 2005 studio offers to buy the company for $4 a share. Because Image shares are trading “significantly below” the offer price -- they closed 0.6% lower Fri. at $3.65 -- and for “other operational reasons,” Lions Gate said it “has lost confidence” in the board. It plans soon to make its case in a preliminary proxy statement to be filed at the SEC, Image said.
CBP has issued messages on a number of antidumping (AD) and countervailing (CV) duty actions, many of which (marked by an * in the action column) were previously published in the Federal Register by the International Trade Administration (ITA) and summarized in International Trade Today.
A slate of “dissident” nominees to the Image Entertainment board, if elected, would bring “cronyism” to senior management and raise potential conflicts of interest. That’s according to Image’s preliminary proxy statement filed at the SEC for its annual shareholders meeting scheduled for Oct. 10 in Woodland Hills, Cal. Saying Lions Gate has disclosed in public filings that it’s paying each nominee $20,000 to run, Image said the studio is trying for a hostile takeover after Image rejected its 2 offers to buy the company in fall 2005. Four nominees -- Duke Bristow, Joachim Kiener, Barry Perlstein and Joseph Incandela -- lack the industry expertise needed “to contribute to our company,” Image said. Two who appear to have “pertinent” industry experience -- Jack Crosby and Eric Doctorow -- have had checkered careers at best, Image said. Doctorow, onetime Paramount Home Entertainment chief, joined another key rival -- Ventura Entertainment -- in Nov. 2004, Image said. As COO, his job was to manage Ventura’s distribution pacts with many independent studios, Image said. Less than 2 years after he arrived, Ventura liquidated in an out-of-court bankruptcy settlement, Image said. Recently, Doctorow was hired by Fox Home Entertainment to manage its DVD catalog distribution. His activities “will directly compete with us and our slate of new theatrical releases and direct-to-video projects, as well as the films and episodes of TV programming in our library,” Image said: “It appears from their background, current positions and actions that Lions Gate and its nominees may not be most concerned about protecting ALL of our stockholders’ interests, but rather may be concerned with their own potentially conflicting financial and business interests.”
GENEVA - Though a tremendous amount of work lies ahead in forging global standards for next generation networks (NGN), details emerged Tues. about 16 recommendations given preliminary approval at a coordinated meeting of the NGN-Global Standards Initiative.
The Commerce Department's Office of Textiles and Apparel (OTEXA) has posted to its Web site the following five monthly reports containing official April and/or May 2006 trade data from the Department of Census for imports and exports of textiles and apparel:
GENEVA - Though a tremendous amount of work lies ahead in forging global standards for next generation networks (NGN), details emerged Tues. about 16 recommendations given preliminary approval at a coordinated meeting of the NGN-Global Standards Initiative. The recommendations were the result of about 650 contributions made to ITU’s lead NGN study group, SG13, since it met in Jan., an official said. “ITU-T has been working industriously and steadily on NGN and this is culminating in a number of key deliverables on NGN… that are… setting the stage for the next round of deliverables which will happen within one year,” said John Visser of Nortel, speaking as chmn. of ITU-T study group SG19, which deals with mobile telecommunication networks. The details, not yet announced publicly, reveal more about the NGN specifications that the ITU preliminarily approved recently (WID Aug 1 p4). The specifications were for such things as: (1) Quality of service support to virtual private network services. (2) Functional requirements and architecture for NGNs. (3) IMS for next generation networks. (4) PSTN/ISDN emulation architecture. (5) Admission control functions in NGNs. (6) B-ISDN operation and maintenance. (7) Mobility management requirements. (8) PSTN/ISDN evolution to NGN. The specifications will enter ITU’s 4-week last call for comments Aug. 16. Because of regulatory implications, some recommendations, such as one dealing with security requirements of NGN, will be considered under ITU’s lengthier traditional approval process, which could produce a final decision by April 2007. Regulatory and therefore political considerations of ITU member states make predicting the date for final approval difficult. Work on a spec that received approval last fall was suspended because members couldn’t agree on required changes. Work on “Customizable IP networks… by customers” will continue with the aim of agreeing on text during an undetermined future meeting, documents said.