In setback for content owners, court in San Francisco ruled late Mon. that Texan who posted DeCSS on Internet couldn’t be tried in Cal. In L.A. same day, judge seemed inclined to give U.S. court in Cal. jurisdiction in content owners’ suit against Australia-based owner of file-sharing service KaZaA. Meanwhile, in Denmark Tues., individuals who allegedly downloaded copyrighted entertainment from Internet received hefty bills for content after judge there ordered ISPs to reveal subscribers’ identities and locations.
The International Trade Administration has initiated administrative reviews of the antidumping duty orders below, for certain specified companies listed in the initiation notice.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued a notice announcing that it is again extending the comment period on its proposed rule to amend 19 CFR to preclude the filing of a substitution drawback claim1 for Federal excise tax2 paid on imported merchandise in situations where (1) no excise tax was paid on the substituted merchandise or where (2) the substituted merchandise is the subject of a different claim for refund or drawback of Internal Revenue Code taxes.
CBP has issued a memorandum announcing that it will be posting frequently asked questions regarding the new CBP Form 7501 to its website. Beginning April 1, 2010, entry summaries must be filed using the June 2009 version of the CBP Form 7501. (See ITT's Online Archives or 09/03/09 news, 09090305, for BP summary of CBP extending the deadline for the use of the new version of CBP Form 7501 to April 1st.) (Memo, dated 11/16/09, available by sending a request to documents@brokerpower.com)
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has announced that it is scheduled to deploy ESAR A2.3.1a (antidumping/countervailing duty (AD/CVD) entries in ACE and AD/CVD Case Management) on January 17, 2010.
CBP has posted updated versions of the following ISF transaction sets:
The International Trade Administration has issued notices that it is postponing the preliminary determinations in the antidumping duty investigations of narrow woven ribbons with woven selvedge from China and Taiwan.
The Directorate of Defense Trade Controls has issued a notice announcing that beginning November 17, 2009, it is offering a precursor to its upcoming MARY Status Retrieval System, known as MARY "lite", which will provide users access to their D-Trade2 export license status without having to log on to the D-Trade 2 interface.
Leading online brands for flower sales, movie and airline tickets and printing services are the target of a shaming campaign from the Senate Commerce Committee, for their business dealings with “mystery charge” providers. The committee released the tentative results of a six-month investigation into Vertrue, Affinion and Webloyalty (WID May 29 p2), whose free-trial subscription offers have been shown during the checkout process for hundreds of Web retailers and have drawn mostly negative reactions from customers who learn they signed up for a separate program. A handful of those consumers testified at a committee hearing Tuesday.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted its report to Congress on the Automated Commercial Environment for the third quarter of fiscal year 2009 (April 1 through June 30, 2009).