The U.S. Court of International Trade (“CIT”) has upheld a negative bond sufficiency determination by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (“CBP”) regarding certain entries of fresh garlic from China imported by Kwo Lee Inc. The fresh garlic was exported by Qingdao Tiantaixing Foods Co., Ltd. (“QTF”), a company that had obtained an antidumping duty cash […]
Managing Director of New Jersey Wooden Bedroom Furniture Importer Pleads Guilty to Filing Fraudulent Documents in Multimillion Dollar Antidumping Duty Evasion Scheme
Earlier this month, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of New Jersey announced (http://www.justice.gov/) that John Sandiford, the managing director of a New Jersey-based wooden bedroom furniture importer, had pled guilty to one count of importing merchandise from China by means of false statements. The bill of information filed in the criminal proceeding alleged that […]
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 […]