Number: RS22290
Title: Trade Remedies: "New Shipper" Reviews
Authors: Vivian C. Jones, Foreign Affairs, Defense, and Trade Division 
Abstract: Some U.S. producers of merchandise subject to antidumping (AD) duties or countervailing duties (CVD) complain that U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) have not collected the full amount of duties owed on targeted imports. One of the "loopholes" often cited is a law that allows importers that receive goods from new exporters of targeted merchandise to post bonds instead of cash deposits while an investigation of the "new shipper" is conducted to assess an appropriate AD or CVD duty amount based on the exporter's previous sales. Congress suspended the new shipper bonding privilege from April 1, 2006 to June 30, 2009 (sec. 1632(a) of P.L. 109-280). A May 2008 report by the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) estimated that abuse of the new shipper bonding privilege was responsible for about 40% of the uncollected duties from fiscal years 2001 to 2007.
Pages: 6
Date: May 12, 2008