Illegal Honey Broker Sentenced to 3 Years Due for AD Duty Evasion
A Texas man was sentenced to three years in prison following a guilty plea for "facilitating illegal honey imports by falsely declaring that the honey originated in countries other than China to avoid $37.9 million in anti-dumping duties," said ICE…
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in a Nov. 14 press release. Jun Yang, who brokered the sale of "hundreds of container loads of Chinese-origin honey" he said originated from India or Malaysia, will begin his sentence in federal prison in January. Yang facilitated the scheme through his companies, National Honey and National Commodities Company, said ICE. The sentencing stems from the prosecution of two major honey suppliers announced in February (see 13022131). An AD duty order issued in 2001 assessed duties as high as 221 percent on Chinese honey. Current duties are assessed based on weight, and are set at $2.63 per kilogram for the China-wide entity. All honey is also charged an assessment fee of one cent per pound.