Three Arrested for Misclassifying Chinese Honey to Avoid AD Duties
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has announced that three people have been indicted for misclassifying Chinese honey as rice fructose in order to avoid more than $1 million in antidumping duties. The three defendants, Chin Shih Chou (Taiwan), Qiao Chu…
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(China), and Wei-Tang Lo (California) represented a number of honey importation companies in executing the scheme. They mislabeled shipping containers filled with the Chinese honey to avoid a $2.63 per kilo antidumping duty. Once the containers of honey passed through customs, they were forwarded to a warehouse, washed of all markings, and relabeled as amber honey, and sold to domestic producers.