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CIT Upholds Hardwood Plywood Evasion Finding in Confidential Opinion

The Court of International Trade in a June 22 confidential opinion upheld CBP's finding that a group of companies, led by American Pacific Plywood, evaded the antidumping and countervailing duty orders on hardwood plywood from China. In a letter to…

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litigants, Judge M. Miller Baker gave the parties until June 29 to review the bracketed information in the opinion. In the case, BP said the companies evaded the duties by transshipping their products through Cambodia. The plaintiffs levied a host of due process violation allegations against CBP and said, among other things, the agency carried out an "unceasing attempt to crucify" exporter LB Wood Cambodia (see 2202040037) (American Pacific Plywood v. U.S., CIT # 20-03914).