The International Trade Administration frequently issues notices on antidumping and countervailing duty orders, investigations, etc. which Broker Power considers to be "minor" in importance as they concern actions that occur after an order is issued, neither announce nor cause any changes to an order's duty rates, scope, affected firms, or effective period, etc.
CBP Acting Commissioner Ahern will host CBP's 10th annual trade symposium on December 8 - 10. Registration will open on October 1, 2009. The registration fee is $290. Symposium topics will include Importer Security Filing (10+2), Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism (C-TPAT), the Automated Commercial Environment and other CBP programs and initiatives. (See ITT's Online Archives or 09/21/09 news, 09092110, for previous BP summary on the trade symposium.) (Notice, dated 09/21/09, available at http://www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/newsroom/news_releases/09212009.xml)
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted the June/July and August 2009 Trade Support Network monthly activity reports summarizing the activity of all of the TSN Committees and Subcommittees for the given months.
The International Trade Administration has initiated administrative reviews of the antidumping and countervailing duty orders below, for certain specified companies listed in the initiation notice.
It’s too early for federal agencies to evaluate some of the content industry’s proposals for reducing copyright infringement on the Internet, if the tone of questions from FCC, Federal Trade Commission and Justice Department officials at a Thursday broadband workshop is any indication. Officials said they wanted more data on the extent of infringement and consumer expectations for the media they purchase, and the viability of existing remedies under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and other laws.
Level 3 and HyperCube traded more salvos, as Level 3 slammed HyperCube for what Level 3 calls “a repetitive tirade” answering an administrative law judge’s request for financial data. In a Monday filing to the California Public Utilities Commission, Level 3 said HyperCube used the request “as an excuse to issue yet another press release, and to confuse the record with irrelevant and unsupported allegations.”
Privacy clauses in contracts hinder pay-TV companies from showing the FCC and Congress that cable programmers, including ESPN, require the purchase of their online offerings along with their cable channels, pay-TV executives said. Non-disclosure provisions in subscription TV carriage contracts mean groups including the American Cable Association, National Telecommunications Cooperative Association and Organization for Promotion and Advancement of Small Telecommunications Companies (OPASTCO) have a harder time making their case, they told us.
Privacy clauses in contracts between media companies including ESPN and video providers hinder distributors from showing the FCC and Congress that programmers tie distribution of cable channels to online content, executives representing small and mid-sized pay-TV companies told us. Non-disclosure agreements in subscription TV carriage contracts mean groups including the American Cable Association, National Telecommunications Cooperative Association and Organization for Promotion and Advancement of Small Telecommunications Companies (OPASTCO) have a harder time making their case, they said.
Privacy clauses in contracts hinder pay-TV companies from showing the FCC and Congress that cable programmers, including ESPN, require the purchase of their online offerings along with their cable channels, pay-TV executives said. Non-disclosure provisions in subscription TV carriage contracts mean groups including the American Cable Association, National Telecommunications Cooperative Association and Organization for Promotion and Advancement of Small Telecommunications Companies (OPASTCO) have a harder time making their case, they told us.
ITC Institutes Patent Investigation on Certain Vizio, Funai Video Displays, Including Flat Panel TVs
The International Trade Commission has instituted a section 337 patent-based investigation of certain video displays, components thereof, and products containing the same, pursuant to a complaint.