Kabinetti tal-Vjetnam fihom partijiet Ċiniżi, U.S. Importatur immultat ħafna mis-CBP

Kabinetti tal-Vjetnam fihom partijiet Ċiniżi, U.S. Importatur immultat ħafna mis-CBP

Riċentement, U.S. Doganali u Protezzjoni tal-Fruntieri (CBP) ruled against the UWM Group (aka U.S. Cabinet Warehouse) under the Enforcement and Protection Act that UWM Group’s wooden cabinets and dressers imported from Vietnam “fraudulently” evaded anti-dumping ( CBP found that some parts of them were processed in Vietnam, but most of the parts were manufactured in China.

The Reston, Virginia-based KCMA said the U.S. Customs ruling imposed duties of up to 83.89 percent on “a significant portion of the wooden cabinets imported from Vietnam. Fl-istess waqt, l-U.S. Customs decision “confirms the important principle that combining Chinese goods with components from other countries does not remove the goods from the AD/CVD tariff coverage.”

According to KCMA, the case arose when BGI Group, operating as a U.S. maħżen, avoided the AD/CVD tariff by importing RTA cabinets from Vietnam without declaring that the cabinets contained components made in China. Sussegwentement, l-Alleanza tal-Kabinett tal-Kċina Amerikana (AKCA), through its legal counsel Schagrin Associates, filed a formal complaint with U.S. Customs under the U.S.

Enforcement and Protection Act, alleging that Chinese-made cabinet doors, frames and boxes were included in the RTA cabinets.KCMA stated that they were subsequently imported into the U.S. by a Chinese subsidiary in Vietnam.KCMA added that Customs officials ultimately rejected the argument that Chinese components should not be included in the AD/CVD order because they had been further processed in Vietnam.

KCMA said the customs action against the UWM group would subject “a significant number of Chinese to AD/CVD duties that would otherwise be paid,” adding that the importers in question could end up being responsible for “millions of dollars in unpaid duties”.