US importer of Chinese-made wire hangers arrested, charged with fraud

Friday, 06 August 2010 01:37:28 (GMT+3)   |  
       

The Coalition for Enforcement of Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Orders Thursday announced that an importer of steel wire garment hangers has been arrested and charged with fraud, smuggling, and money laundering in connection with bringing Chinese-made hangers into the United States via a third country and then falsely claiming a country of origin other than China. Conviction of these felonies carries a maximum term of imprisonment between five and 20 years per count, plus substantial monetary fines and the payment of applicable dumping duties. 

Each member of the Coalition successfully petitioned the US Government for relief from unfairly traded imports and received antidumping and/or countervailing duty orders.  However, schemes to avoid the application of these orders, including instances of misclassification, mislabeling, and transshipment of the products covered by these orders, began to surface soon after the orders were put in place. 

Other members of the Coalition have uncovered similar evidence of instances where products manufactured in a country under order have been transported to a third country where the products are repacked or relabeled and then shipped to the United States as products of the third country. 

Coalition members include: M&B Metal Products (Leeds, Alabama), Vulcan Threaded Products (Pelham, Alabama), Leggett & Platt, Incorporated (Carthage, Missouri), Mid Continent Nail (Poplar Bluff, Missouri), American Spring Wire Company (Bedford Heights, Ohio) Insteel Industries (Mt. Airy, North Carolina), John Maneely Company (Beachwood, Ohio), Geo Specialty Chemicals (Lafayette, Indiana), and SSW Holding Company (Elizabethtown, Kentucky). 

The Coalition members are all American manufacturers of steel wire garment hangers, steel threaded rod, uncovered innerspring units, nails, prestressed concrete steel wire strand, circular welded carbon quality steel line pipe, glycine, and kitchen appliance shelving and racks.  All of these products are subject to antidumping and/or countervailing duty orders.


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