IBiquity, Kenwood and Texas Instruments are named in a complaint filed last week at the International Trade Commission (ITC) alleging that TI’s “C6000” family of DSP devices sourced from its plants in Malaysia and Taiwan and built into Kenwood HD Radio receivers produced in Japan violate 5 patents on digital processing techniques held by a licensor in Boulder, Colo.
The Treasury Department's Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB) has issued a notice announcing that it will hold a public meeting on December 15, 2004 to provide information on implementation of the new certification requirements for imported wine contained in section 2002 of the Miscellaneous Trade and Technical Corrections Act of 2004 (Miscellaneous Trade Act, Public Law (P.L.) 108-429).
There have been two recent developments regarding certain proceedings relative to the antidumping (AD) duty and countervailing (CV) duty investigations/orders on certain softwood lumber products (softwood lumber products) from Canada, as follows.
The International Trade Administration (ITA) and the International Trade Commission (ITC) have issued various notices, each initiating automatic five-year sunset reviews on the above antidumping (AD) duty orders.
In an earlier edition of International Trade Today, Broker Power had substantially transcribed what is now known as the first draft version of U.S. Customs and Border Protection's (CBP's) New C-TPAT Security Standards for Importers.
In a recent speech before the Propeller Club of Washington, D.C., Federal Maritime Commission Chairman Steven Blust commented on a number of maritime issues, including the recent Supreme Court decision, Norfolk Southern v. Kirby, which reaffirmed the statutory distinction between forwarders and non-vessel-operating common carriers (NVOCCs).
The U.S. Association of Importers of Textiles and Apparel (USA-ITA) has issued a Textile Development Memo stating that on November 8, 2004, the U.S. industry filed another China textile safeguard petition, this time for synthetic filament fabrics (Cat 620). (TDM, dated 11/08/04, www.usaita.com)
The Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) has issued a proposed rule that would provide an exemption from the tariff publication requirements of the Shipping Act of 1984 (Act) for service arrangements made by non-vessel-operating common carriers (NVOCCs), subject to the conditional filing requirements set forth in proposed new 46 CFR Part 531.
The Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) has issued a proposed rule that would provide an exemption from the tariff publication requirements of the Shipping Act of 1984 for service arrangements made by non-vessel-operating common carriers (NVOCCs), subject to the conditional filing requirements set forth in proposed new 46 CFR Part 531.