The International Trade Administration (ITA) has issued its preliminary results of the following antidumping (AD) duty administrative reviews:
The International Trade Administration (ITA) has issued its final results of the antidumping (AD) duty administrative review of glycine from China for the period of March 1, 2003 through February 29, 2004.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has issued a document, entitled "Clarification to July 9, 2004 Amended Monetary Guidelines for Setting Bond Amounts for Special Categories of Merchandise Subject to Antidumping and/or Countervailing Duty Cases" in order to provide for the consideration of certain factors that are relevant for determining duty risk when setting the amount of the continuous bond required for certain importers of merchandise subject to antidumping (AD) or countervailing (CV) duty cases.
GENEVA -- The ITU-T is at work on a new standard, H.325, to meet requirements of next generation multimedia terminals and systems. H.325 will complement the H.320-series of recommendations. ITU-T Study Group 16 is devising standards for “multimedia telecommunication in general, including video telephony and video conferencing and other kinds of applications,” said Dave Lindbergh of Polycom, Study Group 16 reporting member.
Free Speech Coalition (FSC) lawyers said they are “cautiously optimistic” that record-keeping rules for adult magazines and videos won’t extend to adult websites, following a preliminary injunction hearing in U.S. Dist. Court, Denver, last week. The Justice Dept. planned to apply provisions in Sec. 2257 of the 1988 Child Protection & Obscenity Enforcement Act to all adult websites, including those run by amateurs, but held off until Sept. 7 under a deal reached with FSC (WID June 27 p1), an adult entertainment trade group. The Free Speech Coalition v. Alberto Gonzales hearing “did not result in an immediate decision” by the judge, but was “a significant milestone in the FSC challenge to this unlawful attempt by the government to chill protected speech,” FSC Chmn. Jeffrey Douglas said in a statement. The group believes the judge will enjoin the secondary-producer provisions of Sec. 2257, and “we will succeed in obtaining an injunction of the entire regulatory scheme,” Douglas said.
New Products: Recent channel checks among retailers indicated that Electronic Arts’s NCAA Football 06 for PS2 and Xbox and Battlefield 2 for PC, plus Nintendo’s Pokemon Emerald for Game Boy Advance and Kirby Canvas Curse for DS, are among the best-selling titles now, Southwest Securities analyst Arvind Bhatia said in a research note Thurs… Midway Games said it plans to ship the budget- priced Rampage: Total Destruction for PS2 and GameCube at $19.95 in spring 2006… The Adventure Co. said it plans to ship Agatha Christie: And Then There Were None, based on the novel of the same name by Christie, for PC in Nov… Logitech said it is adding the G7 Laser Cordless Mouse and G5 Laser Mouse to its line of G-series gaming mice in Sept. at $99.99 and $69.99, respectively. The company also plans to ship the G15 keyboard for PC gaming in Oct. at $79.99… Noreve shipped leather cases for Sony’s PSP in Europe at 55.90 ($71.91 at $1= 0.841) and
Advance data released Thurs. by Intelsat link the IS 804 satellite failure in Jan. to a design flaw that may affect all Lockheed Martin 7000 Series satellites. It will be Sept. before the joint Failure Review Board (FRB) commissioned by Intelsat and Lockheed Martin finishes its inquiry, but Intelsat officials said they think the FRB is far enough along in its work to release preliminary findings on why IS 804 had a “sudden and unexpected electrical power system anomaly” in Jan. that resulted in the total loss of the satellite.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has issued a general notice which states that entry summaries cannot be flagged for Reconciliation to account for latent manufacturing defects discovered after importation.
The International Trade Administration (ITA) has issued its final results of the antidumping (AD) duty administrative reviews of stainless steel bar from France and Italy for the period of March 1, 2003 through February 29, 2004.
The number of Americans employed by ISPs, search engines and data processing companies dropped almost 2,800 from June to July, according to preliminary figures from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. But the approximately 390,000 is still well ahead of this time last year.