The International Trade Administration has issued a notice announcing that it is revoking the countervailing duty order on low enriched uranium from France pursuant to the ITA's recalculation of the subsidy rate on remand by the Court of International Trade.
A federal court in Ind. ruled that Verizon sought unreasonable loss-of-use compensation from a contractor for damaging its fiber cables. U.S. Dist. Court, Indianapolis, was ruling on a motion by Patriot Engineering & Environmental to dismiss Verizon’s suit seeking $655,000 in compensatory damages. Last year, in doing soil borings for a construction project, Patriot cut a main fiber cable carrying 624 DS-3 circuits. Verizon quickly rerouted most affected circuits; service disruption was minimal, and repairs were completed about 8 hours after the accident. Verizon sued Patriot for $21,900 in direct repair costs plus $633,600 for loss of use, citing Ind. law. The Bell based its compensation claim on the cost of renting temporary circuits for 8 hours, with Level 3 Communications’ tariffs as the reference, though Verizon didn’t have to buy the capacity. That came to $9,600. Then it added a $1,000 tariffed nonrecurring installation fee for each DS-3 circuit, another $624,000. The court said the last sum outran reason (Case 1:06-CV- 00945-DFH-JMS). It said it would be “unfair and even absurd” to use one-time fees for leases lasting a year or more to set a hypothetical value for an 8-hour loss of use, especially since there’s no established retail market for very brief telecom transmission capacity. The court declined to dismiss the case, though, and said that while Verizon may be entitled to loss-of-use compensation, it isn’t entitled to claim the $624,000 in installation charges. It suggested that if Verizon wants a hypothetical installation cost added to its hypothetical rental cost, it prorate the $624,000 tally to the 8-hour length of the loss.
The International Trade Administration frequently issues notices on antidumping and countervailing 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. The ITA also issues other notices which Broker Power considers to be "minor" in importance.
According to sources at the Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements, the agreed quotas imposed on certain China-origin textile and apparel quotas pursuant to the 2006 U.S.-China textile agreement, will end on December 31, 2008.
The antidumping and countervailing messages U.S. Customs Border and Protection issues on behalf of the International Trade Administration are now only available on CBP's Web site at http://addcvd.cbp.gov. AD and CV ABI administrative messages are no longer issued.
The antidumping and countervailing messages U.S. Customs Border and Protection issues on behalf of the International Trade Administration are now only available on CBP's Web site at http://addcvd.cbp.gov. AD and CV ABI administrative messages are no longer issued.
The International Trade Administration frequently issues notices on antidumping and countervailing 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. The ITA also issues other notices which Broker Power considers to be "minor" in importance.
The International Trade Administration has published its lists of recently completed antidumping and countervailing duty scope rulings; terminated scope inquiries; and pending scope inquiries and anticircumvention rulings.
The International Trade Administration frequently issues notices on antidumping and countervailing 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. The ITA also issues other notices which Broker Power considers to be "minor" in importance.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted a notice to its Web site announcing that the fourth specialty sugar tariff-rate quota (i.e. tranche) that opened on May 1, 2007 oversubscribed at opening moment. The pro-rata percentage is 79.195%. For those receiving allocations, CBP states that the importer can determine how their allocation is distributed among eligible entries (see notice for details). Note that the fifth tranche (TRQ allotment) for specialty sugar will open on July 24, 2007.