Conn’s had a 7.4 percent increase in overall same-store revenue for the quarter ended Jan. 31, but CE same-store sales dropped 13.3 percent, it said in a preliminary report Tuesday. CEO Norm Miller said the Super Bowl falling a week later than usual “delayed sales of televisions into the first week of February.” The timing is expected to boost February sales, he said. Furniture and mattress revenue grew 15.2 percent over the year-ago quarter, the company said.
Regulators around the world have wrestled with zero rating and are offering different solutions, said Ellen Goodman, professor at Rutgers Law School, in a new paper. The Netherlands banned zero rating, while Chile allows only zero rating of noncommercial services like Wikipedia, Goodman wrote. The EU has been silent, while the U.S. is taking case-by-case approach, she said. “Even where there has been a preliminary decision, the issue of zero rating is in flux,” Goodman said. “The market impact of differential pricing is difficult to predict and assess, and is likely to vary with the particular practice, the state of broadband competition, and other features of fluid Internet market structures.” In the U.S., zero rating is being looked at against the backdrop of the war over net neutrality, Goodman said. “The zero-rating debate revisits the almost theological conflicts of net neutrality,” she wrote. “What constitutes innovation and what regulatory and business relationships best promote it? Are broadband carriers, if unconstrained by regulation, incentivized to keep connectivity costs artificially high? Do data caps constitute rent seeking or efficient price discrimination?”
The Commerce Department published notices in the Feb. 8 Federal Register 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 is beginning an expedited countervailing duty review of two exporters of supercalendered paper from Canada (C-122-854), it said (here). Under the unusual “expedited review” procedures, Commerce will determine CV duty cash deposit rates for Catalyst Paper and Irving Paper, which were left out of the CV duty investigation completed in December (see 1512090012). The agency will in effect conduct a second “investigation” of only these two companies, though with liquidation suspended and CV duty cash deposits collected at the “all others” rate throughout. It will not calculate assessments, and a zero rate by either company will permanently exempt them from the CV duty order. The preliminary results are due in August.
Regulators around the world have wrestled with zero rating and are offering different solutions, said Ellen Goodman, professor at Rutgers Law School, in a new paper. The Netherlands banned zero rating, while Chile allows only zero rating of noncommercial services like Wikipedia, Goodman wrote. The EU has been silent, while the U.S. is taking case-by-case approach, she said. “Even where there has been a preliminary decision, the issue of zero rating is in flux,” Goodman said. “The market impact of differential pricing is difficult to predict and assess, and is likely to vary with the particular practice, the state of broadband competition, and other features of fluid Internet market structures.” In the U.S., zero rating is being looked at against the backdrop of the war over net neutrality, Goodman said. “The zero-rating debate revisits the almost theological conflicts of net neutrality,” she wrote. “What constitutes innovation and what regulatory and business relationships best promote it? Are broadband carriers, if unconstrained by regulation, incentivized to keep connectivity costs artificially high? Do data caps constitute rent seeking or efficient price discrimination?”
A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the Commerce Department posted to CBP's website Feb. 5, along with the case number(s) and CBP message number, is provided below. The messages are available by searching for the listed CBP message number at http://adcvd.cbp.dhs.gov/adcvdweb.
The Commerce Department published notices in the Feb. 5 Federal Register 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 preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative review on pure magnesium from China (A-570-832) (here). The agency said the only company under review, Tianjin Magnesium International, Co., Ltd. and its affiliate Tianjin Magnesium Metal Co., Ltd. (TMI/TMM), had no exports of subject merchandise to the U.S. during the period of review. If Commerce's no shipments finding for TMI/TMM is confirmed in the final results, subject merchandise from the company will continue to enter at AD rates set in previous reviews, and any entries filed with TMI or TMM's case number during the period of review will be liquidated at the China-wide rate. Commerce will make its final decision when it issues the final results of this review, currently due in June.
The Commerce Department is beginning antidumping and countervailing duty investigations on new pneumatic off-the-road tires from China, India and Sri Lanka, it said in a fact sheet released Feb. 4 (here). A domestic tire manufacturer and a labor union requested the investigations on Jan. 8 (see 1601120017). The International Trade Commission is scheduled to make its preliminary injury determination by Feb. 22. These AD/CV duty investigations will only continue if the ITC finds injury. ITT will provide more details upon publication of the initiation notice in the Federal Register.
The International Trade Commission published notices in the Feb. 4 Federal Register on the following AD/CV injury, Section 337 patent, and other trade proceedings (any notices that warrant a more detailed summary will be in another ITT article):