TikTok isn’t a national security threat and shouldn’t be subject to a government ban, the Georgia Institute of Technology’s Internet Governance Project said in a report this week. The group said all “evidence indicates that TikTok is a commercially motivated enterprise and not a tool of the Chinese state,” adding that the app isn’t “exporting censorship” and the personal data it collects “is very similar to the data collected by its peer competitors.”
The Court of International Trade in a Jan. 9 opinion denied the New Zealand government's bid to delay a preliminary injunction barring the import of certain fish taken from New Zealand's West Coast North Island multispecies set-net and trawl fisheries into the U.S. The New Zealand government requested the temporary stay of the PI to set up a traceability system that would help the govenrment identify the fish subject to the injunction. Judge Gary Katzmann said that the need to set up this system does not constitute a changed circumstance that would permit the modification of the PI.
The Court of International Trade in a Jan. 9 opinion denied the New Zealand government's bid to delay a preliminary injunction barring the import of certain fish taken from New Zealand's West Coast North Island multispecies set-net and trawl fisheries into the U.S. The New Zealand government requested the temporary stay of the PI to set up a traceability system that would help the govenrment identify the fish subject to the injunction. Judge Gary Katzmann said that the need to set up this system does not constitute a changed circumstance that would permit the modification of the PI.
Georgia tagged $234 million for broadband expansion through 29 preliminary grant awards using U.S. Treasury Capital Projects Fund dollars, Gov. Brian Kemp (R) said Wednesday. The state awarded 12 ISPs, including large companies, electric cooperatives and a local Georgia telco, Kemp’s office said. Cable companies and Windstream got nearly three-quarters of the cash: Comcast got about $57 million, Charter Communications about $49.5 million, Windstream about $34.9 million and Mediacom about $28.4 million.
The International Trade Commission published notices in the Jan. 6 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):
T-Mobile reported preliminary Q4 results, tabulating postpaid phone net adds of 927,000, it’s best numbers since it completed its buy of Sprint. T-Mobile released the preliminary results Wednesday, as Chief Financial Officer Peter Osvaldik spoke at a Citi financial conference. AT&T and Verizon officials also presented, but the companies didn’t release preliminary numbers. For all of 2022, T-Mobile said it expects to report postpaid net customer adds of 6.4 million, the “best in industry and record high, above high end of guidance” and postpaid phone net customer additions of 3.1 million. T-Mobile also had 524,000 high-speed internet net customer adds, “more than AT&T, Verizon, Comcast and Charter combined,” T-Mobile said. Osvaldik said the carrier predicts capital expenditures of $9 billion-$10 billion this year. “T-Mobile just posted amazing results -- our highest ever postpaid account net adds (the best measure of our industry-leading growth in customer relationships), both postpaid customer net adds and broadband customer growth that are expected to lead the industry, and our lowest-ever churn numbers," said CEO Mike Sievert.
The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register Jan. 6 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 Commerce Department issued the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on certain quartz surface products from India (A-533-889). These final results will be used to set final assessments of AD duties on importers of subject merchandise entered Dec. 13, 2019, through May 31, 2021.
The Commerce Department on Jan. 6 issued the final results of an antidumping duty administrative review on cold-drawn mechanical tubing of carbon and alloy steel from India (A-533-873). Commerce set an AD rate of 16.8% for the only company under review, Tube Products of India, Ltd., a unit of Tube Investments of India Ltd. Subject merchandise from Tube Products entered between June 1, 2020, and May 31, 2021, will be liquidated at importer-specific assessment rates. The new 16.8% AD cash deposit rate for Tube Products takes effect Jan. 9, the scheduled date of publication for these final results in the Federal Register.
The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices Jan. 6 on AD/CVD proceedings: