Broker Power is providing readers with some of the top stories for January 23-27, 2012 in case they were missed last week.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted an updated version of its spreadsheet of ACE ESAR A2.2 (Initial Entry Types) programming issues.
House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Camp (R-MI) has issued a statement welcoming the decision by the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit to grant an extension for filing a rehearing request in the ongoing litigation about the application of the countervailing duty laws to non-market economies (NMEs) such as China. Camp stated that the Administration must pursue all available legal avenues to overturn the underlying decision, which he believes was wrongly decided.
The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative announced that the U.S. is filing an appeal in the World Trade Organization dispute with Mexico challenging the U.S.’ dolphin-safe labeling measures for tuna products sold in the U.S.
The International Trade Administration has issued the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review of tapered roller bearings and parts thereof from China (A-570-601) which sets an AD cash deposit rate for three exporters. These rates, which are effective January 17, 2012, are expected to be implemented by U.S. Customs and Border Protection soon.
The International Trade Commission voted on January 4, 2012 to institute section 337 patent-based investigation of certain integrated circuits, chipsets, and products containing same, including televisions (337-TA-822). The investigation is based on a complaint filed by Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. The complaint alleges violations of Section 337 of the Tariff Act of 1930 in the importation into the U.S. and sale of certain integrated circuits, chipsets, and products containing the same, including televisions that infringe patents asserted by Freescale. The ITC has identified 14 companies as respondents, including Vizio, Sanyo, TPV, etc.
Chinese producer/exporter Since Hardware (Guangzhou) Co., Ltd. and domestic petitioner Home Products International, Inc. challenged the results of the August 2007 - July 2008 AD administrative review of floor-standing, metal-top ironing tables from China. The Court of International Trade directed the International Trade Administration to recalculate the surrogate value for labor (as the labor rate data had excluded India), but upheld the ITA’s other determinations.
There are two test cases pending in the Court of International Trade, in which Victoria's Secret Direct, LLC and Lerner New York, Inc. (retailer New York & Company) are challenging U.S. Customs and Border Protection's classification of a women's garment called a shelf bra cami or bra top camisole. These garments have a tank top or camisole silhouette and contain a built-in brassiere.
Broker Power is providing readers with some of the top stories for January 3-6, 2012 in case they were missed last week.
The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) found its way into the Senate campaign of Internet service provider pioneer Pete Ashdown, who mounted a longshot campaign against intellectual property hawk Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, in 2006. Ashdown, who announced in November he’s again seeking the Democratic Party nomination for Hatch’s Senate seat, said on his blog Friday that SOPA (HR-3261) “represents another case of congressional ignorance of technology.” Congress “continued to carry water for media companies” who want to “shut down any website without proper trial of criminality,” he said, echoing criticism from some lawmakers that a House Judiciary Committee hearing on SOPA (WID Nov 17 p1) was “stacked” against SOPA critics. Ashdown gave credit to his fellow Utahn, House Judiciary member and Republican Rep. Jason Chaffetz, who “saw through these tactics” and opposed the bill. Chaffetz is a cosponsor of the SOPA alternative known as the OPEN Act, whose House version is still in draft form, which would give the U.S. International Trade Commission authority to hear cases against alleged infringing websites. The Senate version of the OPEN Act (S-2029) was introduced by Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore. SOPA went through two days of markup in December, but fewer than half the amendments to the bill were considered before the House went into recess (WID Dec 19 p1). The earliest it could be taken up again is Jan. 17. Ashdown, founder of Utah’s oldest ISP, XMission, said in the blog post (http://xrl.us/bmnyad) he would hold a volunteer coordination meeting Jan. 14 in Salt Lake City. In his 2006 challenge to Hatch, Ashdown complained that his technophile peers were “more talk than walk” in supporting his candidacy against the cash-rich Hatch (WID Sept 25/06 p1), whose onetime suggestion that record labels be allowed to remotely destroy suspected file-sharers’ hard drives earned him notoriety among the tech community.