Correction: David Craven represents Global Aluminum, an importer that, alongside Kingtom Aluminio, CBP also found to have evaded antidumping and countervailing duties in an Enforce and Protect Act case prior to reversing its decision during a Court of International Trade case (see 2207140021).
CBP’s reversal in an antidumping and countervailing duty evasion case at the Court of International Trade case puts the agency’s entire Enforce and Protect Act program “in jeopardy,” the domestic industry group Aluminum Extruders Council said in a blog post July 13.
An importer entered merchandise covered by antidumping and countervailing duty orders on cast iron soil pipe fittings from China (A-570-062/C-570-063) into the U.S through evasion, CBP said in a July 12 notice. The Cast Iron Soil Pipe Institute, a trade association of domestic producers of fittings, had alleged in July 2021 that Little Fireflies International transshipped the goods through Cambodia.
Oriented strand board used in door jambs imported by Composite Technology International (CTI) does not qualify as a composite material for the purposes of an exemption from antidumping and countervailing duties on wood mouldings and millwork from China (A-570-117/C-570-118), so the door jambs are subject to AD/CVD, the Commerce Department said in a recent scope ruling.