CBP Finds that MSeafood Evaded Antidumping Duty Payments on Indian Shrimp
Yesterday, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) issued a notice of an affirmative determination as to evasion in its administrative investigation pursuant to the Enforce and Protect Act (EAPA) of MSeafood Corporation, the United States importer affiliate of the Vietnamese shrimp producer and exporter, Minh Phu Seafood. The agency’s determination concluded that, based on the record of the administrative proceeding, MSeafood […]
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CBP Formally Initiates Evasion Investigation of Imports of Shrimp from Minh Phu Seafood
On Tuesday, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) formally notified MSeafood Corporation, a California-based seafood importer, that the agency had commenced a formal investigation under the Enforce and Protect Act (EAPA) to determine whether the company had evaded the antidumping duty order on certain frozen warmwater shrimp from India through its imports of shrimp into the United States. In July […]
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Circumvention Busted
Press release from the U.S. Department of Justice, United States Attorney, District of Maryland regarding a recent conviction for cicumvention of antidumping orders. www.justice.gov/usao/md CONTACT: AUSA VICKIE E. LEDUC or MARCIA MURPHY at (410) 209-4885 OWNER AND COMPANY INDICTED IN SCHEME TO SMUGGLE GOODS FROM CHINA IN ORDER TO AVOID PAYING AT LEAST $1.15 MILLION IN CUSTOMS DUTIES Baltimore, Maryland […]
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GAO Study Links Duty Circumvention with Evasion of Food Safety Laws
Tarpon Springs, FL – A report released this week by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) includes a formal acknowledgement from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and other enforcement agencies that companies willing to illegally mislabel shrimp products to avoid paying antidumping duties are also evading U.S. food safety efforts. The Southern Shrimp Alliance (SSA), which repeatedly has voiced […]
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Shrimpers Decry the Administration’s Reluctance to Aggressively Defend U.S. Trade Laws
Tarpon Springs, FL– Since 2001, U.S. importers have failed to pay nearly $1 billion in antidumping and countervailing duties assessed on unfairly traded imports. This problem is directly attributable to the lack of an effective US mechanism to enforce the collection of duties on importers. Absent such a mechanism, imports have been allowed to enter the United States, and when […]