The White House announcement of new trade tariffs on products from China including washing machines and solar energy cells may result in efforts to evade those tariffs in ways recently seen in furniture, honey and steel products from China. In those instances, duties imposed by the United States for ādumpingā products into...
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Category: Tariff Evasion
Whistleblower importers revealing custom tariff evasion by filing cases against employer or competitor under the False Claims Act
Business that are active in importing goods for sale in the United States are revealing their competitor's fraud in cheating on customs tariffs and collecting upto 30% of what the government recovers from their claims.Ā Filing a claim under the False Claims Act stops cheating competitor from fudging on tariffs and allows for a...
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Customs import duties evasion is rampant and ripe for whistleblowers
President Trump signed an executive order for CBP to ramp up efforts to combat customs law violations, especially anti-dumping and other schemes to evade out trade tariffs. The Customs and Border Protection Agency (CBP) which enforces US customs and trade laws is in line to receive an increase of $300 million to recruit and...
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CHINA MAY BE ROUTING BILLIONS IN GOODS THROUGH MEXICO EVADING TARIFFS UNDER NAFTA
There is an important investigative article in today's Wall Street Journal involving a Chinese billionaire aluminum mogul, Liu Zhongtian who allegedly evaded US tariffs by routing billions in aluminum by routing it through a plant in a remote section of Mexico. The article is troubling on many fronts, not only because of the fact...
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U.S. companies shift to Britain to avoid taxes here
During the past year, a dozen major U.S. corporations including medica group Liberty Global, Chiquita Banana and Pfizer have started shifting their headquarters and tax base overseas, according to Reuters. Several have re-based their operations to London including Aon Plc, CNH Global N.V., Delphi Automotive, Esnco, Liberty Global and Noble Corporation.
Otterbox to pay Uncle Sam $4.3 Million to settle case for underpaying tariffs
The United States Attorney's Office for the District of Colorado and the Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, announce that OtterBox, a Colorado corporation headquartered in Fort Collins, has paid $4,300,000 to the United States to resolve allegations that OtterBox violated the False Claims Act and the Tariff...
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