Department of Commerce April 15, 2005 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

Based on affirmative final determinations by the Department of Commerce (``the Department'') and the International Trade Commission (``ITC''), the Department is issuing an antidumping duty order on magnesium metal from the People's Republic of China (``PRC''). On April 11, 2005, the ITC notified the Department of its affirmative determination of material injury to a U.S. industry (Magnesium from China and Russia, Investigations Nos. 731-TA-1071 and 1072 (Final), Publication 3763, April 2005).

The Department of Commerce (the Department) has conducted an administrative review of the antidumping duty order on honey from Argentina produced and/or exported by Asociacion de Cooperativas Argentinas (ACA), Compania Apicola Argentina (CAA), HoneyMax S.A. (HoneyMax), Nexco S.A. (Nexco), Nutrin S.A (Nutrin), Seylinco S.A. (Seylinco), and TransHoney S.A. (TransHoney). The period of review (POR) is December 1, 2002, to November 30, 2003. Based on our analysis of comments received, the margin calculations for these final results do not differ from the preliminary results. The margin calculations for these final results are listed below in the ``Final Results of Review'' section.

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) invites interested parties to attend a pre-consortium meeting on May 16, 2005 to be held on the NIST campus in Boulder, Colorado. The goal of the one-day meeting is to evaluate industry interest in creating a NIST/industry consortium focused on gene expression metrology. The goals of such a consortium would include the development of measurement methods of known quality for microarray gene expression results. The consortium would be supervised and administered by NIST. Consortium research and development would be conducted by NIST staff members along with at least one technical representative from each participating member company. Membership in the Consortium is open to manufacturers of complete microarray gene expression systems (i.e. systems which include all components required to measure a genome-wide expression profile form isolated RNA). Consortium Members will be required to provide the NIST staff members with a complete system representative of their technology platform to support measurement and standards development. The initial term of the consortium is intended to be three years.