The International Trade Administration (ITA) has issued a notice of correction with regard to both the preliminary and final results of its eighth CV duty administrative review of certain pasta from Italy, which had a review period of January 1, 2003 through December 31, 2003.
The International Trade Administration (ITA) has issued its final results of the antidumping (AD) duty new shipper review of certain forged stainless steel flanges from India for the review period of February 1, 2004 through July 31, 2004.
The International Trade Administration (ITA) has issued its final results of the antidumping (AD) duty new shipper review of certain hot-rolled flat-rolled carbon quality steel products for the review period of March 1, 2004 through August 31, 2004.
The International Trade Administration (ITA) has issued a notice stating that on September 30, 2005, it received an antidumping (AD) duty petition requesting that an AD investigation be initiated on liquid sulfur dioxide from Canada.
In its first week available, the PS2 version of Take- Two Interactive’s The Warriors was the top-rented videogame in the U.S., according to preliminary Home Video Essentials data for the week ended Oct. 23. The SKU earned $330,000 in rentals during the week, Rentrak said. The Xbox version was #3 ($280,000). The top 10 included 2 other new games, both for PS2: Midway’s Blitz: The League at #7 ($200,00) and Activision’s Tony Hawk’s American Wasteland at #9 ($180,000). Midway and Activision each had one other game in the top 10, also both for PS2: Mortal Kombat: Shaolin Monks at #10 (down 7 in its 6th week, $180,000) and Ultimate Spider-Man for PS2 at #5 (down 3 in its 5th week, $230,000), respectively. EA also had 2 titles in the top 10, both for PS2: Madden NFL 06 at #2 (down one in its 11th week, $300,000) and NCAA Football 06 at #8 (down 3 in its 15th week, $190,000). Rounding out the top 10 were Sony’s SOCOM 3: U.S. Navy SEALs for PS2 at #4 (up 11 in its 2nd week, $230,000) and Ubisoft’s Far Cry Instincts for Xbox at #6 (down 2 in its 4th week, $210,000).
The N.C. Utilities Commission denied an MCI petition to reconsider a Sept. decision allowing Alltel to withdraw a proposed interconnection agreement with MCI because the parties were too far apart for substantive negotiations. The pact (Case P-118, sub 14) was in arbitration before the NCUC because of a dispute over treatment of transit traffic. MCI said it agreed to removal of the disputed language and wanted to resubmit the pact, but Alltel chose to withdraw it and the NCUC allowed that. MCI sought reconsideration, arguing that federal law doesn’t allow unilateral withdrawal of interconnection agreements that were in the process of state review, and asked that either the original pact or the pact without the transit-traffic language be approved. Alltel said its withdrawal was legal because it had indications that MCI was planning to route ISP-bound and enhanced service traffic to local trunks based on the interconnection facility being used rather than by the originating points of the calls. Alltel said this would be a breach of contract. The NCUC said it allowed the withdrawal because MCI and Alltel were still fighting preliminary battles about basic definitions and procedural issues. It gave the carriers until Nov. 10 to report on progress toward a new agreement.
The International Trade Administration (ITA) has initiated a new shipper review for the antidumping (AD) duty order on fresh garlic from China with respect to the following company, which is both the grower and exporter, and review period:
Emotions ran “quite high” over mandatory retention of communications traffic data after a meeting last Thurs. between U.K. Home Secy. Charles Clarke -- who now heads the Presidency’s Justice & Home Affairs Council -- and European Parliament (EP) members, a parliament member told us. Clarke, who updated the EP panel on civil liberties, justice and home affairs (LIBE) on Council efforts at data retention, left many MEPs fuming over a seeming “take it or leave it” attitude on the Council’s part, the MEP said. But another said refusal to compromise could hurt Parliament’s credibility for years.
The International Trade Administration (ITA) has issued its final results of the countervailing (CV) duty new shipper review of certain softwood lumber products from Canada for the review period of January 1, 2003 through December 31, 2003.
The global effort to set ultrawide broadband (UWB) standards is winding down but it’s unlikely to result in total harmonization, several key players said. The U.S. has completed its work, and Europe and Japan are expected to adopt standards by March. But lingering concerns over interference with other spectrum users -- and the lack of a unified standard -- could slow uptake, experts said.