U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted answers to questions that were submitted at its December 2009 Trade Symposium. Highlights of CBP’s answers to the questions it received include:
Ultimate Electronics denies Best Buy’s allegations that its “lowest prices” ad campaign is false and misleading, Ultimate said in a court filing responding to Best Buy’s April complaint. Best Buy’s lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in St. Paul, Minn., alleged Ultimate violated U.S. and Minnesota deceptive trade practices laws (CED April 21 p1). It sought an injunction forcing Ultimate to scrap the campaign. But Ultimate, “for its own business reasons,” stopped running the campaign before Best Buy sued, it said in its response. Ultimate twice asked the court for two-week deadline extensions to file the response, saying it hadn’t had time to hire lawyers in Minnesota. U.S. Magistrate Judge Janie Mayeron scheduled a July 20 pretrial conference in the case.
STANFORD, Calif. -- A government investigation of an online outlet’s reporting on the lost prototype for the new iPhone represents a frightening effort to start criminalizing some newsgathering, media and civil-liberties lawyers said. Apple escalated use of the legal system to stifle journalism, in this case against Gawker Media’s Gizmodo site, because the conventional civil remedy of injunction has proven ineffective in bottling up news in the Internet age, the lawyers said late Monday at the Innovation Journalism conference at Stanford University.
STANFORD, Calif. -- A government investigation of an online outlet’s reporting on the lost prototype for the new iPhone represents a frightening effort to start criminalizing some newsgathering, media and civil-liberties lawyers said. Apple escalated use of the legal system to stifle journalism, in this case against Gawker Media’s Gizmodo site, because the conventional civil remedy of injunction has proven ineffective in bottling up news in the Internet age, the lawyers said late Monday at the Innovation Journalism conference at Stanford University.
The Directorate of Defense Trade Controls has updated its guidance regarding General Correspondence requests to amend existing International Traffic in Arms authorizations (i.e., DSP licenses or agreements) due to U.S. entity name/address and/or registration code changes.
The International Trade Administration has initiated administrative reviews of the antidumping duty orders below, for certain specified companies listed in the initiation notice.
On May 25, 2010, Representative Kissel and 23 cosponsors introduced H.R. 5393, the Textile Enforcement and Security Act of 2010 to provide U.S. Customs and Border Protection with authority to more aggressively enforce trade laws relating to textile or apparel articles1, and for other purposes. Highlights of H.R. 5393 include:
Pursuant to the Offset Act1, also known as the Byrd Amendment, U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued notice of its intent to distribute assessed antidumping or countervailing duties for fiscal year 2010.
The International Trade Commission has instituted a section 337 patent-based investigation of certain decorative lighting fixtures, pursuant to a complaint (Inv. No. 337-TA-719).
Building 2D-to-3D conversion into 3D TVs may be controversial, but it’s a commercially needed hedge against the lack of available 3D content, a Samsung engineer told us in the company’s European labs Tuesday near Yately, Hampshire, in the U.K.