Open radio access networks are expected to be 15%-20% of the RAN market by 2027, Dell’Oro Group said Friday. The Asia-Pacific and North America regions are expected to drive growth, and European ORAN revenue should top $1 billion in four years, Dell’Oro said. The ORAN “movement has come a long way in just a few years, propelling Open RAN revenues to accelerate at a faster pace than initially expected,” the group said: “These trends continued in 2022 and with this latest report, Open RAN expectations have been revised upward to reflect the higher baseline, supported by stronger-than-expected O-RAN progress in North America.” But Dell’Oro noted despite growth, “preliminary data suggest Open RAN is having a minimal impact on the overall RAN supplier dynamics.”
The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register Jan. 27 on the following AD/CV duty proceedings (any notices that announce changes to AD/CV duty rates, scope, affected firms or effective dates will be detailed in another ITT article):
The various plaintiffs in the Google Play Store antitrust litigation, including 38 states and D.C., want U.S. District Judge James Donato for Northern California to impose stiff but “appropriate” sanctions on Google if he finds the company flouted its obligations and destroyed evidence, they told the judge in a brief Tuesday (docket 3:21-cv-05227) responding to the judge’s questions about evidence preservation in the case. The plaintiffs allege Google systematically deleted internal Google Chat conversations and other instant messaging chats crucial to their arguments that Google's anticompetitive behavior harms consumers and app developers (see 2301090001). They further allege the deletions continued even well after Google knew the chats would be needed for evidence in discovery and at trial. They propose that Donato order preliminary and final jury instructions on Google’s “spoliation” and that he preclude Google from arguing the plaintiffs lack evidence on certain topics, they said. Donato’s jury instructions should inform jurors they “should presume that Chat messages Google destroyed would have been unfavorable to Google in this litigation,” they said. Google countered in its own brief Tuesday that any sanctions for destroying the chats “must be no greater than necessary to cure any prejudice” to the plaintiffs arising from the loss of those chats. “By contrast, remedies that would effectively foreclose Google from presenting a defense or that would be tantamount to an adverse inference or terminating sanction are unwarranted” under court rules and “inconsistent with due process,” said Google.
The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices Jan. 26 on AD/CVD proceedings:
The Commerce Department on Jan. 26 released the preliminary results of its antidumping and countervailing duty administrative reviews on softwood lumber products from Canada (A-122-857/C-122-858). In the final results of this review, Commerce will set AD duty and CVD assessment rates for subject merchandise for the companies under review entered Jan. 1, 2021, through Dec. 31, 2021.
Rep. Dan Kildee, D-Mich., and Rep. Bill Posey, R-Fla., introduced a resolution that would end the administration's pause on antidumping and countervailing duty collection for solar panel firms operating in Cambodia, Thailand, Malaysia and Vietnam that have been identified as circumventing AD/CV duties on Chinese solar panels. That was the finding of a preliminary determination published in December.
The Commerce Department arbitrarily and capriciously found that exporter Officine Tecnosider failed to challenge the agency's decision to reject quarterly cost methodology in an antidumping review, the exporter argued in a Jan. 25 complaint at the Court of International Trade. Commerce further violated the law by rejecting quarterly cost methodology based on its review of the three largest inputs' quarterly average prices and by failing to calculate an accurate dumping margin, the brief said (Officine Tecnosider v. United States, CIT # 23-00001).
Trade Law Daily is providing readers with the top stories from last week in case you missed them. All articles can be found by searching on the title or by clicking on the hyperlinked reference number.
The International Trade Commission published notices in the Jan. 24 Federal Register on the following AD/CVD injury, Section 337 patent or other trade proceedings (any notices that warrant a more detailed summary will be in another ITT article):
The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices Jan. 24 on AD/CVD proceedings: