The FCC shouldn’t apply new universal service definitions to rural telcos’ operations as a result of a proceeding involving the Bells and other “non-rural” telcos, rural telcos said. The issue came up in response to an FCC request for comments on how to respond to a remand by the 10th U.S. Appeals Court, Denver, in Qwest v. FCC. The court had questioned definitions the FCC planned to use to decide if the larger firms qualified for high-cost universal service support in some areas. The debate centers on how the FCC defines Telecom Act requirements that universal service support be “sufficient” and “reasonably comparable.”
In its first week available, The Godfather for PS2 from Electronic Arts (EA) was the #1-rented videogame in the U.S., according to Rentrak’s preliminary Home Video Essentials data for the week ended March 26. The Xbox version was #2. It was the only new game in the top 10. EA had 5 other SKUs in the top 10: Black for PS2 at #3 (down 2), Black for Xbox at #4 (down 2), Fight Night Round 3 for PS2 at #5 (down 2), Need for Speed Most Wanted for PS2 at #6 (down 2) and the Xbox version of Fight Night at #9 (down 3).
The Commerce Department's Office of Textiles and Apparel (OTEXA) has posted to its Web site the following five monthly reports containing official January 2006 trade data from the Department of Census for imports and exports of textiles and apparel:
The International Trade Administration (ITA) has issued the final results of two changed circumstances reviews of the countervailing (CV) duty orders on stainless steel sheet and strip in coils from Italy as well as stainless steel plate in coils from Italy. As a result, the ITA is revoking both of these CV duty orders for entries of subject merchandise with a time of entry on or after November 17, 1998 (stainless steel sheet and strip in coils) and September 4,1998 (stainless steel plate in coils).
The International Trade Administration (ITA) has initiated a new shipper review of the antidumping (AD) duty order on certain frozen warmwater shrimp from China with respect to the following company, which is both the producer and exporter, and review period:
The International Trade Administration (ITA) has initiated a new shipper review of the antidumping (AD) duty order on certain frozen warmwater shrimp from Vietnam with respect to the following company, which is both the producer and exporter, and review period:
The International Trade Administration (ITA) has issued the final results of its countervailing (CV) duty administrative review of DRAMS from Korea for the period April 7, 2003, through December 31, 2003.
The International Trade Administration (ITA) has made a preliminary affirmative antidumping (AD) duty determination that certain lined paper products (CLPP) from Indonesia are being, or are likely to be, sold in the U.S. at less than fair value. The period of investigation is July 1, 2004 through June 30, 2005.
A body studying copyright exceptions and curbs on archive and library operation should take care, warned publishing and high-tech interests. The group, which held public meetings this month in D.C. and L.A., will prepare findings and make suggestions this year to the Librarian of Congress on changing the law. But co-chair Laura Gasaway, head of the U. of N.C.’s law library, told us the 19-member group is unlikely to meet a midyear deadline.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has issued a notice announcing that the 2006 in-quota ("low duty") tariff-rate quota (TRQ) quantity for tuna and skipjack (tuna) in airtight containers, not in oil, weighing with their contents not over 7 kilograms (kg) each, that is not the product of any U.S. insular possession, as described in HTS 1604.14.22 (6% duty) has been set at 19,484,313 kg.