ARCHIVED — Vol. 145, No. 52 — December 24, 2011

COMMISSIONS

CANADA BORDER SERVICES AGENCY

SPECIAL IMPORT MEASURES ACT

Certain pup joints — Decision

On December 12, 2011, pursuant to subsection 38(1) of the Special Import Measures Act (SIMA), the President of the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) made a preliminary determination of dumping and a preliminary determination of subsidizing in respect of oil country tubular goods pup joints, made of carbon or alloy steel, welded or seamless, heat-treated or not heat-treated, regardless of end finish, having an outside diameter from 2 3/8 inches to 4 1/2 inches (60.3 mm to 114.3 mm), in all grades, in lengths from 2 feet to 12 feet (61 cm to 366 cm), originating in or exported from the People’s Republic of China.

The goods in question are usually classified under the following Harmonized System classification numbers:

• 7304.29.00.51
• 7304.29.00.59
• 7304.29.00.61
• 7304.29.00.69
• 7304.29.00.71
• 7304.29.00.79

The Canadian International Trade Tribunal (Tribunal) will conduct a full inquiry into the question of injury to the Canadian producers of certain pup joints, and will make an order or finding not later than 120 days after its receipt of the notice of the preliminary determinations of dumping and subsidizing.

Pursuant to section 8 of SIMA, provisional duty is payable on the dumped and subsidized certain pup joints originating in or exported from the People’s Republic of China that are released from the CBSA during the period commencing December 12, 2011, and ending on the earlier of the day the investigations are terminated, the day on which the Tribunal makes an order or finding, or the day an undertaking is accepted. The amount of provisional duty payable is not greater than the estimated margin of dumping and the estimated amount of subsidy. The Customs Act applies with respect to the accounting and payment of provisional duty. As such, failure to pay duties within the prescribed time will result in the application of the interest provisions of the Customs Act.

Information

The Statement of Reasons regarding this decision will be issued within 15 days following the decision and will be available on the CBSA’s Web site at www.cbsa-asfc.gc.ca/sima-lmsi or by contacting Andrew Manera at 613-946-2052, or by fax at 613-948-4844.

Ottawa, December 12, 2011

DANIEL GIASSON
Director General
Anti-dumping and Countervailing Directorate

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CANADA EMPLOYMENT INSURANCE COMMISSION

EMPLOYMENT INSURANCE REGULATIONS

Notice to interested parties

This notice is hereby given pursuant to subsection 17.1(18) of the Employment Insurance Regulations.

As per subsection 17.1(16), the transitional measures in the Employment Insurance (EI) economic region of Lower St. Lawrence and North Shore (Quebec) ceased to have effect on December 4, 2011. The required number of hours of insurable employment in a claimant’s qualifying period and the number of weeks for which benefits are payable, using the regional rate of unemployment as determined per subsection 17(1), were exactly the same as under the transitional unemployment rate.

Following the conclusion of the transitional measures, EI claimants in the EI economic region of Lower St. Lawrence and North Shore will have their eligibility for EI regular benefits based on their actual regional unemployment rate.

Contact

Irwin Bess
Senior Director
Employment Insurance Policy Directorate
Skills and Employment Branch
Human Resources and Skills Development Canada
140 Promenade du Portage, 5th Floor
Gatineau, Quebec
K1A 0J9
Telephone: 819-994-4690
Fax: 819-934-6631

December 13, 2011

IAN SHUGART
Chairperson
Canada Employment Insurance Commission

JUDITH ANDREW
Commissioner (Employers)
Canada Employment Insurance Commission

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CANADIAN INTERNATIONAL TRADE TRIBUNAL

APPEALS

Notice No. HA-2011-019

The Canadian International Trade Tribunal (the Tribunal) will hold public hearings to consider the appeals referenced hereunder. These hearings will be held beginning at 9:30 a.m., in the Tribunal’s Hearing Room No. 2, 18th Floor, Standard Life Centre, 333 Laurier Avenue W, Ottawa, Ontario. Interested persons planning to attend should contact the Tribunal at 613-998-9908 to obtain further information and to confirm that the hearings will be held as scheduled.

Customs Act

Performance Steel Specialities Inc. v. President of the Canada Border Services Agency

Date of Hearing: January 17, 2012

Appeal No.: AP-2011-021

Goods in Issue: Articles of steel wire

Issue: Whether the goods in issue are properly classified under tariff item No. 7326.20.00 as articles of iron or steel wire, as determined by the President of the Canada Border Services Agency, or should be classified under tariff item No. 7317.00.90 as other nails, tacks, drawing pins, corrugated nails, staples (other than those of heading No. 83.05) and similar articles, of iron or steel, whether or not with heads of other material, but excluding such articles with heads of copper, as claimed by Performance Steel Specialties Inc.

Tariff Items at Issue: Performance Steel Specialties Inc.—7317.00.90
President of the Canada Border Services Agency—7326.20.00

Excise Tax Act

Transnat Express Inc. v. President of the Canada Border Services Agency

Date of Hearing: January 19, 2012

Appeal No.: AP-2009-024

Issue: Whether a certain diesel fuel qualifies for exemption from tax pursuant to paragraph 23(8)(c) of the Excise Tax Act.

December 15, 2011

By order of the Tribunal
DOMINIQUE LAPORTE
Secretary

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CANADIAN INTERNATIONAL TRADE TRIBUNAL

COMMENCEMENT OF INQUIRY

Pup joints

Notice was received by the Secretary of the Canadian International Trade Tribunal (the Tribunal) on December 12, 2011, from the Director General of the Anti-dumping and Countervailing Directorate at the Canada Border Services Agency, stating that a preliminary determination had been made respecting the dumping and subsidizing of oil country tubular goods pup joints, made of carbon or alloy steel, welded or seamless, heat-treated or not heat-treated, regardless of end finish, having an outside diameter from 2 3/8 inches to 4 1/2 inches (60.3 mm to 114.3 mm), in all grades, in lengths from 2 feet to 12 feet (61 cm to 366 cm), originating in or exported from the People’s Republic of China.

Pursuant to section 42 of the Special Import Measures Act (SIMA), the Tribunal has initiated an inquiry (Inquiry No. NQ-2011-001) to determine whether the dumping and subsidizing of the above-mentioned goods have caused injury or retardation or are threatening to cause injury, and to determine such other matters as the Tribunal is required to determine under that section.

Under section 46 of the Canadian International Trade Tribunal Act, a person who provides information to the Tribunal and who wishes some or all of the information to be kept confidential must submit to the Tribunal, at the time the information is provided, a statement designating the information as confidential, together with an explanation as to why that information is designated as confidential. Furthermore, the person must submit a non-confidential summary of the information designated as confidential or a statement indicating why such a summary cannot be made.

Notices of participation

Each person or government wishing to participate in the inquiry and at the hearing as a party must file a notice of participation with the Secretary on or before January 3, 2012. Each counsel who intends to represent a party in the inquiry and at the hearing must file a notice of representation, as well as a declaration and undertaking, with the Secretary on or before January 3, 2012.

Public hearing

A public hearing relating to this inquiry will be held in the Tribunal’s Hearing Room No. 1, 18th Floor, Standard Life Centre, 333 Laurier Avenue W, Ottawa, Ontario, commencing on March 12, 2012, at 9:30 a.m.

To allow the Tribunal to determine whether simultaneous interpretation will be required for the hearing, each interested party and each counsel filing a notice of participation or representation must advise the Secretary, at the same time that they file their notice, whether they and their witnesses will be using French or English or both languages at the hearing.

In the event of an injury finding, a request for a public interest inquiry conducted pursuant to subsection 45(1) of SIMA may be made by any party to the injury inquiry or by any other group or person affected by the injury finding. Such a request must be filed with the Tribunal within 45 days of the injury finding. A public interest inquiry is completely separate from an injury inquiry. The Tribunal is not seeking and does not expect submissions on public interest issues during the injury inquiry.

The Canadian International Trade Tribunal Rules govern these proceedings.

In order to observe and understand production processes, the Tribunal, accompanied by its staff, may conduct plant visits.

Along with the notice of commencement of inquiry, the Secretary has sent a letter to the domestic producers, importers, foreign producers and certain purchasers with a known interest in the inquiry providing details on the procedures, as well as the schedule for the inquiry. The letter specifies, among other things, the date for filing replies to Tribunal questionnaires, the date on which the information on record will be made available by the Tribunal to interested parties and counsel that have filed notices of participation or representation, and the dates for the filing of submissions by interested parties. Copies of all the questionnaires can be downloaded from the Tribunal’s Web site at www.citt-tcce.gc.ca/question/index_e.asp.

The Tribunal’s Guide to Making Requests for Product Exclusions, which can be found on the Tribunal’s Web site, describes the procedure for filing requests for specific product exclusions. The Guide includes a form for filing requests for product exclusions and a form for any party that opposes a request to respond to such requests. This does not preclude parties from making submissions in a different format if they so wish, provided that all of the information and supporting documentation requested in the forms are included. Requests to exclude goods from the finding shall be filed by interested parties no later than noon, on February 10, 2012. Parties opposed or consenting or not opposed to the request for exclusion shall file written reply submissions no later than noon, on February 20, 2012. Should the request for a specific product exclusion be opposed, and if the interested party wishes to reply, it must do so no later than noon, on February 27, 2012.

Written submissions, correspondence and requests for information regarding this notice should be addressed to the Secretary, Canadian International Trade Tribunal, Standard Life Centre, 15th Floor, 333 Laurier Avenue W, Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0G7, 613-993-3595 (telephone), 613-990-2439 (fax), secretary@citt-tcce.gc.ca (email).

Parties and the public may file documents electronically with the Tribunal through its Secure E-filing Service at www.citt-tcce.gc.ca/apps/index_e.asp. The information is fully encrypted from the sender to the Tribunal.

Parties must still file paper copies when instructed to do so. Where a party is required to file hard copies, the electronic version and the hard-copy version must be identical. In case of discrepancies, the hard-copy version will be considered the original.

At the end of these proceedings, the Tribunal will issue a decision supported by a summary of the case, a summary of the arguments and an analysis of the case. The decision will be posted on its Web site and distributed to the parties and interested persons, as well as to organizations and persons who have registered to receive decisions of the Tribunal.

Written and oral communication with the Tribunal may be in English or in French.

Ottawa, December 13, 2011

GILLIAN BURNETT
Acting Secretary

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CANADIAN RADIO-TELEVISION AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION

NOTICE TO INTERESTED PARTIES

The Commission posts on its Web site the decisions, notices of consultation and regulatory policies that it publishes, as well as information bulletins and orders. On April 1, 2011, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission Rules of Practice and Procedure came into force. As indicated in Part 1 of these Rules, some broadcasting applications are posted directly on the Commission’s Web site, www.crtc.gc.ca, under “Part 1 Applications.”

To be up to date on all ongoing proceedings, it is important to regularly consult “Today’s Releases” on the Commission’s Web site, which includes daily updates to notices of consultation that have been published and ongoing proceedings, as well as a link to Part 1 applications.

The following documents are abridged versions of the Commission’s original documents. The original documents contain a more detailed outline of the applications, including the locations and addresses where the complete files for the proceeding may be examined. These documents are posted on the Commission’s Web site and may also be examined at the Commission’s offices and public examination rooms. Furthermore, all documents relating to a proceeding, including the notices and applications, are posted on the Commission’s Web site under “Public Proceedings.”

CANADIAN RADIO-TELEVISION AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION

NOTICE OF CONSULTATION

2011-767 December 13, 2011

Notice of application received

Windsor, Ontario
Deadline for submission of interventions, comments and/or answers: February 6, 2012

The Commission has received the following application:

1. Neeti P. Ray, on behalf of a corporation to be incorporated
Windsor, Ontario

Application relating to the broadcasting licence of the FM ethnic radio programming undertaking CJNR-FM Windsor.

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CANADIAN RADIO-TELEVISION AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION

DECISIONS

The complete texts of the decisions summarized below are available from the offices of the CRTC.

• 2011-765 December 12, 2011

  Complaint by TELUS Communications Company against BCE Inc., Bell Canada or Bell Mobility Inc. alleging undue preference and disadvantage, contrary to the provisions of the New Media Exemption Order.

• 2011-766 December 12, 2011

  Bell Media Inc.
  Across Canada

  Approved — Application for a broadcasting licence to operate Movies, a national, English-language specialty Category B service devoted to action and adventure programming.

• 2011-768 December 13, 2011

  Sogetel inc.
  Municipalities in the province of Quebec

  Approved — Application to amend a condition of licence for the video-on-demand undertaking serving all municipalities in the province of Quebec.

• 2011-772 December 14, 2011

  Radio Rimouski inc.
  Rimouski and Amqui, Quebec

  Denied — Application to amend the broadcasting licence for the French-language commercial radio station CFYX-FM Rimouski in order to eliminate a condition of licence.

• 2011-773 December 14, 2011

  Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
  Iqaluit, Nunavut

  Approved — Application to amend the broadcasting licence for the radio station CFFB Iqaluit in order to operate a nested FM rebroadcasting transmitter at Iqaluit to rebroadcast the programming of its national English-language network service Radio One.

• 2011-775 December 15, 2011

  Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
  Kelowna and Field, British Columbia

  Approved — Application to amend the broadcasting licence for the radio station CBTK-FM Kelowna in order to operate a nested low-power FM rebroadcasting transmitter at Field to replace its existing AM transmitter CBRD.

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