The problem of assessed antidumping duties that cannot be collected by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (“CBP”) has been an increasing problem undermining the effectiveness of relief against unfair trade in the United States. Through fiscal year 2012 – the last year for which data are available – CBP reported a total of nearly $1.8 […]
Gordon Quoted in Article Regarding Hearst Newspapers Investigation of Antidumping Duty Fraud
The San Francisco Chronicle today published an article reporting the results of a far-reaching Hearst Newspapers investigation into the fraudulent and illegal evasion of payment of antidumping duties on a variety of different products. The article analyzes illegal evasion of trade remedies on four different groups of imported products: fresh garlic, honey, glycine, and canned […]
Kentz Discusses Circumvention of AD/CVD Orders at Georgetown University’s 2014 International Trade Update
Andrew Kentz today served as an expert panelist at Georgetown University Law Center’s 2014 International Trade Update. Mr. Kentz discussed circumvention of antidumping and countervailing duty laws, as well as the roles of Commerce and Customs in combating this pressing concern. He presented an article authored by PKR attorneys entitled “
CDSOA: Not Dead Yet
Last week, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) announced the distribution of over $61 million in funds to affected domestic producers under the Continued Dumping and Subsidy Offset Act (CDSOA) (also known colloquially as “the Byrd Amendment”), with another $3 million in collected antidumping duties withheld. In the thirteen years that CDSOA distributions have been […]
Comment: Understanding Circumvention of Antidumping Duties
A plea agreement filed in a federal court in the Northern District of Illinois on May 3 described an intricate scheme that evaded the payment of nearly $39 million in duties on imports of honey from China. In the agreement, Hung Yi Lin a/k/a Katy Lin admits to using the freight forwarding company Ms. Lin owned and […]