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Charlotte Pipe testifies to House subcommittee: transshipment and shell companies are undermining U.S. trade enforcement
Summary
A Charlotte Pipe and Foundry representative told a House Judiciary subcommittee that Chinese exporters used transshipment and shell companies to evade antidumping and countervailing duties, prompting calls for stronger penalties and a trade-fraud enforcement unit.
WASHINGTON — Brad Mueller, a marketing and government-affairs official for Charlotte Pipe and Foundry, told a House Judiciary subcommittee that Chinese exporters have repeatedly used transshipment, shell companies and other customs fraud to avoid U.S. antidumping and countervailing-duty (AD/CVD) orders.
Mueller said his company, a 124-year-old U.S. manufacturer, has documented what it called extensive evasion after the Department of Commerce found Chinese exporters had underpriced cast-iron pipe and fittings by as much as 345% and 494%, respectively. "When customs investigated the locations of these alleged producers, they found an empty warehouse, a bus stop, even a massage parlor, but…
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