CBP Gives Update of Recent AD/CV Enforcement Efforts
CBP outlined its recent enforcement work related to antidumping and countervailing duties in an AD/CVD Update for October (here). Through August, CBP assessed 17 penalties for AD/CVD violations, with a total value of $4.4 million on a wide range of…
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commodities, it said. CBP highlighted a recent discovery from CBP’s Regulatory Audit, which found "a loss of revenue of $36 million during an audit of importers of tapered roller bearings from China," the agency said. "The company failed to declare and pay AD duties on imported taper roller bearings, resulting in $32.4 million in unpaid duties, along with finding significant classification errors resulting in an additional $3.6 million in penalties. CBP is seeking to collect the duties and penalty amount from the importer." CBP also pointed to a recent $84 million lawsuit against Univar over unpaid antidumping duties for saccharine. "Univar USA misrepresented to U.S. Customs and Border Protection that the country of origin was Taiwan and that the entries were ordinary consumption entries, as opposed to entries subject to antidumping duties," the Justice Department said in the lawsuit in the Court of International Trade.. "In fact, that the true country of origin for the merchandise was China and that the merchandise was subject to anti-dumping duties exceeding 329 percent." DOJ also filed a suit against LBS Marketing that seeks to recover $2.8 million in allegedly evaded antidumping duties on crawfish, said CBP.