U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has issued an ABI administrative message that provides additional guidance on the June 11, 2004 closing of the Federal government and CBP's modification of the Automated Commercial System (ACS) to designate June 11, 2004 as a "holiday" in the system.
The International Trade Administration (ITA) has initiated and issued its preliminary results of an antidumping (AD) duty changed circumstances review of canned pineapple fruit from Thailand.
The International Trade Administration (ITA) has issued its preliminary results of the antidumping (AD) duty changed circumstances review of automotive replacement glass windshields from China.
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 6. Rentrak said the title earned an additional $297,602 in its 5th week, for $1.33 million to date. The Xbox version of the game was again #5 ($178,348 in the week, $795,488 to date). Electronic Arts (EA) and Vivendi Universal Games (VUG) also each had 2 SKUs in the top 10. EA’s -- both for PS2 -- were Need for Speed Underground at #4 again in its 29th week ($201,737 in the week, $8.37 million to date) and James Bond 007: Everything or Nothing at #10 again in its 16th week ($131,565, $3.27 million to date). VUG’s were Van Helsing for PS2 at #7 again in its 5th week ($154,200, $732,260 to date) and The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay at #8 in its first week ($153,209). Once again #2 in its 9th week was Midway’s NBA Ballers for PS2 ($240,072 in the week, $2.24 million to date). Rounding out the top 10 were one game each from Eidos, Sony Computer Entertainment and Ubisoft: Respectively, Hitman: Contracts for PS2 at #3 again in its 7th week ($225,475 in the week, $1.85 million to date), Syphon Filter: Omega Strain for PS2 at #6 again in its 5th week ($168,282, $771,012 to date) and Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow for Xbox at #9 again in its 11th week ($133,489, $2.02 million to date).
Its first full week available, Blockbuster subsidiary DEJ’s Monster was the #1-rented DVD in the U.S., Rentrak’s preliminary Home Video Essentials data for the week ended June 6 showed Thurs. Rentrak said the title earned $5.48 million in the week, for $5.58 million to date. Last week’s #1-rented DVD -- New Line’s The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King -- fell to #2, earning an additional $4.02 million, for $10.75 million to date. Other new DVDs included Universal’s comedy Eurotrip at #3 ($3.71 million in the week, $3.78 million to date) and Buena Vista’s My Baby’s Daddy at #8 ($2.38 million in the week, $2.43 million to date).
BOSTON -- FCC Chmn. Powell Wed. opened a major international meeting here on ultra wideband with a plea for the group to move forward with an international agreement. In coming days, ITU’s Task Group 1/8 will try to hammer out a consensus on UWB in a rare meeting outside Geneva. Powell told delegates that while balancing interests presents major “challenges” for regulators “the promise of UWB technology is simply too great to do otherwise.”
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.
When Blu-ray products are introduced beginning in late 2005 and 2006, it will be with the support of many major CE companies and PC industry powerhouses Dell and Hewlett-Packard, but also as part of the feature set of the next-generation “PlayStation 3,” Benjamin Feingold, pres. of Sony-affiliated Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment, told the “DVD Lucky 7” conference Tues. in W. Hollywood.
The International Trade Administration (ITA) has issued a notice stating that at the request of the petitioners, it is postponing the preliminary countervailing (CV) duty determinations on bottle-grade polyethylene terephthalate resin from India and Thailand until no later than August 21, 2004 (from June 17, 2004).
All agenda items but one were approved at the FCC’s 2007 World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC) Advisory Committee (WAC). Agenda Item 1.9, “to review the technical, operational and regulatory provisions applicable to the use of band two 500-2 690 MHz by space services” was shelved after objections from the committee. WAC Chmn. Nancy Victory recommended the committee “take another look” at the item. Approved recommendations for preliminary viewing included several that reexamine or review regulatory procedures for various WRC-related documents, consideration of frequency- related matters for future development of IMT-2000, the study and consideration of satellite frequency allocations, and various spectrum requirements and specifications.