The International Trade Administration (ITA) has initiated antidumping (AD) duty investigations of purified carboxymethylcellulose (CMC) from Finland, Mexico, Netherlands, and Sweden.
As LG.Philips LCD prepares for its long-awaited IPO this month, the flat-panel industry grapples with a supply that’s outstripping demand, tempering expectations for the stock offering. LG.Philips -- expected to debut of the S. Korean and U.S. exchanges July 15 -- in June reduced the IPO’s expected proceeds to $1.4 billion from $1.9 billion.
The International Trade Administration (ITA) has issued a notice stating that, at the request of the petitioner, Mercury Marine, a division of Brunswick Corporation, it is further postponing the preliminary antidumping (AD) duty determination on outboard engines from Japan until no later than August 5, 2004 (from July 16, 2004).
The International Trade Administration (ITA) has issued its final results of the changed circumstances antidumping (AD) duty review of canned pineapple fruit from Thailand, concluding that Tipco Foods (Thailand) Public Co., Ltd. (Tipco Foods) is the successor-in-interest to The Thai Pineapple Public Co., Ltd. (TIPCO).
A Sony Ericsson spokeswoman said her company had “not yet been served” a lawsuit from Midway Games that claimed her company included the Midway game Defender on some of its cellphones without authorization (CED July 2 p8). She said “we cannot comment on litigation” anyway, but said one of the phones -- the T68 -- was “no longer marketed in the United States.” Separately, developer BattleBorne Entertainment said it obtained a preliminary injunction against Acclaim Entertainment’s shipping BattleBorne’s Combat Elite: WWII Paratroopers for PS2 and Xbox. BattleBorne had sued Acclaim for breaching the companies’ development deal, claiming that the struggling publisher failed to make payments owed and threatened to ship the game before making all required payments. An Acclaim spokesman said his company wasn’t commenting on the dispute beyond what it said in a 10-K SEC filing Fri. (CED July 6 p5).
Nielsen praised a Cal. Superior Court, L.A., ruling to deny Univision a preliminary injunction blocking the launch of Nielsen’s Local People Meter (LPM) system in L.A. “The evidence we presented demonstrates clearly that the electronic people meter is a more reliable and complete way to measure TV viewing than handwritten paper diaries,” Nielsen said in a statement. Univision said it was disappointed and argued that Nielsen’s sample doesn’t accurately represent the composition of the L.A. market, including the Hispanic-American population. Nielsen’s system has come under heavy scrutiny. The Senate Communications Subcommittee will examine Nielsen’s system in a July 15 hearing (CD June 29 p8). Members of Congress have called on Nielsen to suspend further rollout.
(a) final AD cash deposit rate of zero; however, suspension of liquidation will continue.
In its first week available, Atari’s DRIV3R was the #1- rented DVD in the U.S., according to Rentrak’s preliminary Home Video Essentials data for the week ended June 27. Rentrak said the 3rd entry in Atari’s popular Driver series earned $412,459 in the week on PS2, while the Xbox version was #3, earning $252,107. Atari had one other new title in the top 10 -- Shadow Ops: Red Mercury at #5 ($201,061) -- and was the only publisher with more than 2 SKUs in the top 10. And Take-Two Interactive was the only publisher with 2: The PS2 version of Red Dead Revolver at #2 (down one in its 8th week, $290,596 in the week, $2.15 million to date) and the Xbox version at #8 (down 2, $156,459, $1.24 million). The only other non-PS2 game in the top 10 was Vivendi Universal Games’s The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay for Xbox at #9 (down 6, $151,254, $641,978). PS2 titles rounding out the top 10 were Ubisoft’s Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow at #4 (up 43 in its 2nd week, $211,019, $268,400), Midway’s NBA Ballers at #6 (down 4 in its 12th week, $196,448, $2.82 million), Electronic Arts’ Need for Speed Underground at #7 (down 3 in its 32nd week, $183,537, $8.87 million) and Eidos’s Hitman: Contracts at #10 (down 5 in its 10th week, $149,311, $2.32 million).
The International Trade Administration (ITA) frequently issues notices on antidumping (AD) and countervailing (CV) duty orders which Broker Power considers to be "minor" in importance as they concern actions that occur after an order is issued and neither announce nor cause any changes to an order's duty rates, scope, affected firms, or effective period.
In its first full week available, Columbia TriStar’s thriller Secret Window starring Johnny Depp was the #1-rented DVD in the U.S., Rentrak said its preliminary Home Video Essentials data for the week ended June 27 showed. Rentrak said the title earned $8.25 million on DVD in the week, for $8.36 million to date. Last week’s #1 DVD -- Columbia TriStar’s 50 First Dates -- slipped to #2, earning an additional $7.92 million on DVD, for $16.23 million to date. The only other new DVD release in the top 10 was Miramax’s Bad Santa at #4 ($5.42 million in the week, $5.52 million to date).