Trade Groups Take AD/CV Duty Evasion Concerns to White House
Multiple trade associations recently voiced concerns to National Security Council (NSC) Staff on the evasion of antidumping/countervailing duties (AD/CVD) for wire and wire products, said the American Wire Producers Association (AWPA). The AWPA, the National Association of Manufacturers and American…
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Iron and Steel Institute were among those who met with NSC Staffers Bennett Harman, director of International Trade and Investment and Christine Turner, director of Global Supply Chain Security. The NSC gives advice to the President on a number of domestic and foreign policy issues. Harman "spoke about the convening authority of the White House" and the AWPA believes "it is his intention use this authority to bring the relevant agencies together to work on these solutions to the evasion of AD/CVD orders by transshipment," the trade association said. The AWPA also discussed the problems with CBP's current process of fraud investigations to stop transshipment, it said.