The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register Feb. 17 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 FCC's 2023 World Radiocommunication Conference Advisory Committee (WAC) voted Tuesday to adopt and forward a set of working group recommendations to the agency. On the WRC-23 agenda item about an aeronautical mobile satellite service allocation in the 117-137 MHz band, WAC voted to adopt an updated preliminary view that notes some existing aeronautical use that new allocations must protect. It also approved a draft proposal on allocation of 6425-7025 MHz and 7025-7125 MHz to international mobile telecommunications. Citing a resolution asking the ITU Radiocommunication Sector to study the use of IMT systems for fixed wireless broadband in the frequency bands allocated to fixed service on a primary basis, the NTIA in a letter to the FCC said the ITU-R already has a route for mobile technologies to provide flexed wireless access, and proponents of IMT use for fixed wireless access can revise existing recommendations that were done years ago rather than seek further action at WRC-27. A WRC-27 agenda item "could have far-reaching consequences," NTIA said. It said the U.S. backs consideration of new allocations to the non-safety aeronautical mobile applications service at 15.4-15.7 and 22-22.21 GHz, and protection levels used for radio astronomy service should project it from adjacent interference. WAC's recommendations will go out for public notice, then be reconciled with NTIA recommendations for creation of U.S. inputs going into the next Inter-American Telecommunication Commission meeting at the end of April, said Dante Ibarra, FCC designated federal officer to WAC.
The Commerce Department is extending until May 4 the deadline for its preliminary determination in the antidumping duty investigation on oil country tubular goods from Argentina (A-357-824), Mexico (A-201-856) and Russia (A-821-833), it said in a notice released Feb. 16. The preliminary determination had been due by March 15 (see 2111010042). The agency decided to postpone after the petitioners that requested the investigation -- Borusan Mannesmann Pipe U.S.; PTC Liberty Tubulars; U.S. Steel Tubular Products; the United Steel, Paper and Forestry, Rubber, Manufacturing, Energy, Allied Industrial and Service Workers International Union; AFL-CIO; CLC; and Welded Tube USA -- asked for an extension. Cash deposits of estimated antidumping duties can be collected only after the preliminary determination, although cash deposits can be made retroactive 90 days from the preliminary determination if Commerce finds “critical circumstances.”
The Commerce Department is amending the recently issued final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on aluminum foil from China (A-570-053) to correct "inadvertent, unintentional errors" it said it made in calculating the rate for certain companies. These amended final results will be used to set final assessments of AD duties on importers for subject merchandise entered April 1, 2019, through March 31, 2020. The new rates are applicable as of Feb. 17.
LG sought permission to file under seal its reply memorandum of law and related documents in support of its request for a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction to bar Dolby from terminating LG’s license to AC-4 audio codec patents for NextGenTV, in a letter motion Monday to U.S. District Judge Paul Crotty in Manhattan. It appears from heavily redacted public filings in the case that disputed patent royalty audit reports are at the root of the LG-Dolby court fight (see 2202090028). The papers LG wants to file under seal, LG lawyers wrote Crotty, include declarations in support of the TRO and PI from Justin Lewis, managing director of Ocean Tomo’s intellectual property practice, and Allan Shampine, an antitrust expert at Compass Lexecon. LG has “a significant interest in maintaining the confidentiality of highly sensitive commercial information concerning its business relationships and sensitive financial information that, if disclosed, would cause competitive harm, including by giving an unfair advantage to competitors,” they said.
The Commerce Department issued the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on circular welded carbon steel standard pipe and tube products from Turkey (A-489-501). These final results will be used to set final assessments of AD duties on importers for subject merchandise entered May 1, 2019, through April 30, 2020.
The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register Feb. 14 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 and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices Feb. 14 on AD/CV duty proceedings:
The Commerce Department intends to make a company eligible for a certification process that would allow some oil country tubular goods it exports from Brunei and the Philippines to avoid antidumping and countervailing duties on OCTG from China (A-570-943/C-570-944), the agency said in a notice Feb. 14 announcing the initiation and preliminary results of a changed circumstances review. Commerce says HLDS (B) Steel Sdn Bhd and its affiliate HLD Clark Steel Pipe Co., Inc. have now developed a system to identify which OCTG that they make in Brunei and the Philippines, respectively, are produced from non-Chinese origin hot-rolled steel.
The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register Feb. 10 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):