A number of documents have been posted to the International Trade Data System1 Web site, including one from U.S. Customs and Border Protection that discusses the functionality that will be available to certain ITDS Participating Government Agencies in future Automated Commercial Environment releases2.
The International Trade Administration has initiated administrative reviews of the following antidumping and countervailing duty orders for certain specified companies listed in the initiation notice.
Core Communications never got past questions about its legal standing in challenging FCC denial of its forbearance petition as the competitor and the agency faced off Tuesday before a three-judge panel of the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Observers predicted Core will lose, noting that the judges asked few questions about the substance of its complaint. Observers also see the case as largely a sideshow, with the real action to come next month, when the FCC is to address intercarrier compensation rules at its Nov. 4 agenda meeting.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted the draft agenda for the 2008 Trade Symposium, which will be held on October 29-31, 2008 in Washington, DC.
The reach of ICANN’s Uniform Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) is getting a high-profile test in an ambitious effort by Kentucky to seize the domain names of gambling Web sites for violating state law. Kentucky says only the domain owners can contest the seizure, but, by order of Franklin County Judge Thomas Wingate, the state filed a brief replying to gambling trade groups contesting Kentucky’s authority. A hearing is set for Tuesday on the state’s forfeiture motion.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted a draft agenda for its 2008 Trade Symposium, which will be held on October 29-31, 2008 at the JW Marriott in Washington, DC. CBP notes that its draft agenda is subject to change. (See ITT's Online Archives or 09/05/08 news, 08090510, for BP summary announcing that registration for the Trade Symposium had closed.) (Agenda, posted 10/02/08, available at http://www.cbp.gov/linkhandler/cgov/trade/trade_outreach/symposium08/agenda.ctt/agenda.doc)
The International Trade Administration and the International Trade Commission have each issued notices initiating automatic five-year Sunset Reviews on the above-listed antidumping duty order.
The Chinese Government's Official Web Portal reports that China's State Council, the country's Cabinet, recently issued an implementation regulation for the Labor Contract Law in an effort to clarify confusion surrounding the law. (Chinese Government press release, dated 09/18/08, available at http://english.gov.cn/2008-09/18/content_1099209.htm)
Nearly a year after its major victory in the nation’s first P2P infringement trial, the RIAA is back to square one. U.S. District Judge Michael Davis in Duluth, Minn., ordered a retrial in Capitol v. Thomas over his jury instruction that the availability of files in a shared folder constitutes infringement. Davis questioned that holding months later, citing precedent in the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals (WID May 19 p4). In language unusually political for a judge, Davis asked Congress to rewrite damage provisions in copyright law to take into account infringement without profit motive. The jury’s $222,000 damage award to the RIAA was “unprecedented and oppressive,” he said.
The International Trade Commission has instituted a section 337 patent-based investigation of certain video game machines and related three-dimensional pointing devices (for "Wii" video game systems) pursuant to a complaint