(a) preliminary de minimis CV duty rate of 0.27%
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has posted to its Web site an "ACE Toolkit," which consists of three documents: (i) Overview of Periodic Monthly Statement; (ii) Entry Summary Accounts Revenue (ESAR) I & II Overview; and (iii) ACE Ambassador Locations. According to CBP, the toolkit provides a general overview of the Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) and various components of key functionality.
The International Trade Administration (ITA) has initiated and is issuing its preliminary results of an antidumping (AD) duty changed circumstances review of ball bearings and parts thereof from Japan.
In its 3rd week available, the PS2 version of The Godfather from Electronic Arts (EA) was again the #1-rented game in the U.S., according to Rentrak’s preliminary Home Video Essentials data for the week ended April 9. The Xbox version was again #2. EA had 4 other SKUs in the top 10: Black for PS2 at #3 again, Black for Xbox at #5 (down one), Fight Night Round 3 for PS2 at #8 (down 3 in its 7th week) and Need for Speed Most Wanted for PS2 at #9 (down 3 in its 21st week).
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has issued a Customs Bulletin notice advising interested parties that, effective April 5, 2006, CBP is limiting the application of the decisions of the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) and the Court of International Trade (CIT) in Park B. Smith Ltd. vs. U.S. (Park) to the specific cotton woven table linen and cotton woven dhurry rug entries before the courts in that litigation.1
A retired AT&T employee who believes his employer aided the National Security Agency in a widespread intercept of Internet data traffic hired Morrison & Foerster attorneys James Brosnahan and Tony West, plus Miles Ehrlich and Izzy Ramsey of Ramsey & Ehrlich, to represent him. Plaintiff Mark Klein worked for AT&T for 22 years as a telecom technician. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filed legal briefs and evidence supporting its motion for a preliminary injunction in its class-action suit against AT&T last week (WID April 7 p10). EFF Staff Attorney Kurt Opsahl called Klein “a true American hero” for coming forward with information “critical for proving AT&T’s involvement with the government’s invasive surveillance program.”
NAB and other industry leaders joined the CEA Tues. in urging the Cal. Energy Commission to withdraw its 1w standby and 8w operational energy consumption limit on DTV converter boxes.
A retired AT&T employee who believes his employer aided the National Security Agency in a widespread intercept of Internet data traffic hired Morrison & Foerster attorneys James Brosnahan and Tony West, plus Miles Ehrlich and Izzy Ramsey of Ramsey & Ehrlich, to represent him. Plaintiff Mark Klein worked for AT&T for 22 years as a telecom technician. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filed legal briefs and evidence supporting its motion for a preliminary injunction in its class-action suit against AT&T last week. EFF Staff Attorney Kurt Opsahl called Klein “a true American hero” for coming forward with information “critical for proving AT&T’s involvement with the government’s invasive surveillance program.”
The International Trade Administration (ITA) has initiated and is issuing its preliminary results of an antidumping (AD) duty changed circumstances review of stainless steel wire rod from Italy.
The International Trade Administration (ITA) has issued a notice amending the final results of its countervailing (CV) duty administrative review on dynamic random access memory semiconductors (DRAMS) from Korea for the period of April 7, 2003 through December 31, 2003 in order to correct certain ministerial errors to the CV duty rate for Hynix.