The Bureau of Industry and Security is postponing its Oct. 30 meeting of the Sensors and Instrumentation Technical Advisory Committee due to Hurricane Sandy, it said. The meeting will now be held Nov. 8.
Itochu Building Products appealed a Court of International Trade ruling against its challenge of the effective date for partial revocation of the antidumping duty order on steel nails from China for four types of nails. In September, CIT said that although both domestic parties and Itochu requested an earlier effective date for the partial revocation, Itochu waived its right to challenge the later effective date selected by the International Trade Administration when it failed to comment on the later date following its announcement in the ITA’s preliminary results of the changed circumstances review. Through its lack of action, Itochu effectively communicated to the ITA that it no longer objected to the later effective date, CIT said.
A Taiwanese national was sentenced to two years in prison Oct. 24 for helping to obtain and export military sensitive parts for Iran, in violation of the Iranian trade embargo, said Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The indictment charged Susan Yip, 35, a citizen of Taiwan, along with Mehrdad Foomanie (aka Frank Foomanie) of Iran, and Merdad Ansari of the United Arab Emirates, with conspiracy to violate the Iranian Transaction Regulations, conspiracy to launder money and conspiracy to commit wire fraud. Yip had pleaded guilty to the conspiracy charge July 20, admitting that from Oct. 9, 2007 to June 15, 2011, she acted as a broker and conduit for Foomanie to buy items in the United States and have them unlawfully shipped to Iran.
A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the International Trade Administration posted to CBP's website Oct. 26, along with the case number(s) and CBP message number, is provided below. The messages are available by searching for the listed CBP message number at http://addcvd.cbp.gov. (CBP occasionally adds backdated messages without otherwise indicating which message was added. ITT will include a message date in parentheses in such cases.)
The Department of Homeland Security has made progress in developing a strategy of “resilience,” or the ability of ports and other infrastructure to “resist, absorb, recover from, or adapt to adversity,” but still has a ways to go in implementing and streamlining its efforts, said the Government Accountability Office in a report issued Oct. 25. The report, entitled “Critical Infrastructure Protection: An Implementation Strategy Could Advance DHS’s Coordination of Resilience Efforts across Ports and Other Infrastructure,” follows a GAO investigation consisting of document reviews and interviews with DHS officials, including port visits, that was requested by three Congressmen.1
Mexico's Diario Oficial of Oct. 26, lists notices from the Secretary of the Economy as follows:
The World Trade Organization General Council approved Laos’ WTO membership at an Oct. 26 meeting, the WTO said. The country’s accession protocol was signed shortly afterward, which means all that’s left is for the Laotian legislature to ratify the agreement. Laos will become a WTO member 30 days after ratification, more than 15 years after it applied to join the WTO.
The International Trade Commission is publishing notices in the Oct. 26 Federal Register on the following AD/CV injury, Section 337 patent, and other trade proceedings (any notices that warrant a more detailed summary will appear in another ITT article):
The International Trade Commission is considering issuing a limited exclusion order against LG's LCD devices, and is asking for comments by Nov. 21 on any relevant public interest factors. Complainants Industrial Technology Research Institute of Taiwan and ITRI International Inc., of San Jose, Calif. allege violations of Section 337 of the Tariff Act of 1930 in the importation into the U.S. and sale of certain devices of improving uniformity used in a backlight module and components thereof and products containing same (337-TA-805). The administrative law judge in this case recommended a limited exclusion order against LG.
The International Trade Commission is asking for comments by about Nov. 6 on a patent complaint filed Oct. 23 on behalf of K-V Pharmaceutical Company, which alleges violations of Section 337 of the Tariff Act of 1930 in the import into the U.S., the sale for import, and the sale within the U.S. after import of certain hydroxyprogesterone caproate and products containing the same (D/N 2919). The ITC is asking for comments on any public interest issues that might affect ITC consideration, including whether the issuance of an exclusion order and/or cease and desist order would impact the public interest. The complaint names the following respondents: