Lawmakers Urge CBP Report on Lightweight Thermal Paper Duty Evasion
CBP should report the number of evasion cases, penalty notices, and “other legal or administrative actions” related to antidumping and countervailing duties on lightweight thermal paper, a bipartisan group of five senators and four House lawmakers said in a letter…
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to CBP Commissioner Gil Kerlikowske (here). “Importers have transshipped their products through third countries and submitted falsified import documentation including country-of-origin certificates,” the lawmakers wrote. “CBP has consulted with the domestic industry to combat these practices, which we are grateful for, but we are concerned that this problem persists and may be getting worse.” The lawmakers want CBP to describe what steps it has taken to counter such activities, and said continuation of duties ordered in 2008 on imports of lightweight thermal paper is “critical” to defending domestic industry from unfair trade practices.