Take-Two Interactive’s Red Dead Revolver for PS2 was again the #1-rented videogame in the U.S., according to Rentrak’s preliminary Home Video Essentials data for the week ended June 20. Rentrak said the title earned an additional $295,899 in its 7th week, for $1.86 million to date. The Xbox version of the game dropped one notch to #6 ($161,516 in the week, $1.09 million to date). But Electronic Arts had the most games in the top 10, with 3, all for PS2: Need for Speed Underground at #4 (up 2 in its 31st week, $190,418 in the week, $8.69 million to date), Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban at #8 (up 12 in its 3rd week, $138,602, $286,948) and James Bond 007: Everything or Nothing at #10 again in its 18th week ($121,431, $3.5 million). The only other titles in the top 10 not for PS2 were for Xbox: Vivendi Universal Games’s The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay at #3 (up one in its 3rd week, $200,754, $490,724) and Ubisoft’s Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow at #7 (up 10 in its 13th week, $141,520, $2.25 million). Rounding out the top 10 were Midway’s NBA Ballers at #2 again in its 11th week ($211,657, $2.63 million), Eidos’s Hitman: Contracts at #5 (down 2 in its 9th week, $169,433, $2.17 million) and Sony Computer Entertainment’s Syphon Filter: Omega Strain at #9 (down 2 in its 7th week, $125,783, $3.50 million).
The International Trade Administration (ITA) has made preliminary affirmative antidumping (AD) duty determinations that carbazole violet pigment 23 (CVP-23) from China and India is being, or is likely to be, sold in the U.S. at less than fair value.
The ITA states that these companies are not based in a non-market economy.
The Departmental Advisory Committee on Commercial Operations of the Bureau of Customs and Border Protection (COAC) held a quarterly meeting on June 18, 2004 in Washington, DC to discuss and receive updates from U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officials on various trade and customs issues.
* For China, the ITA has previously stated that these rates apply only when the individually named companies are both the exporter and producer (exporter/producer) of subject merchandise.
(See ITA notice for more information, including the scope of the investigation. See ITT's Online Archives or 01/29/04 news, 04012940 for BP summary of the preliminary affirmative AD duty determination on subject merchandise from China.)
The voting may have ended last week, but Europe’s telecom sector won’t know for some time how it fared in the election of members of the European Parliament (MEPs). While the balance of power in the EP remained essentially static, the greatest unknown is the makeup of the various committees that deal with telecom and Internet issues. The impact of the loss of several key privacy and digital rights supporters is also unclear.
(a) If the exporter is not a firm covered in this review, a prior review, or the original investigation, but the manufacturer is, the AD cash deposit rate will be the rate established for the most recent period for the manufacturer of the merchandise.
The International Trade Administration (ITA) has issued a fact sheet announcing its preliminary affirmative antidumping (AD) duty determination for wooden bedroom furniture from China (A-570-890).
1 new shipper review; bonding will no longer be permitted to fulfill AD security requirements