PUBLIC VERSION
transshipped through Vietnam by Kales Quartz and other companies that were affiliated with a Chinese QSP producer. 32
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EAPA 7809. In June 2024, CBP affirmed a determination of evasion that imports of vanities by Legion Furniture and Vanity Art from Vietnam were incorporating Chinese QSP without the payment of AD / CVD duties. 33
The evasion activity of Chinese QSP producers in Malaysia became so rampant at one point that, by February 2022, Commerce was forced to initiate a country-wide scope inquiry to investigate whether a seemingly endless array of Malaysian exporters had been shipping QSP to the United States that is covered by the AD / CVD orders. 34 In October 2022, Commerce issued a final determination implementing a certification requirement for all U. S. imports of QSP from Malaysia to ensure that such imports do not involve Chinese-origin merchandise evading the payment of the applicable duties. 35
The level of evasion is simply staggering. Last month, the U. S. Department of Justice announced that Allied Stone Inc., a Dallas, Texas-based supplier of countertop and cabinetry products, and its President, Jia“ Jerry” Lim, agreed to pay a total of $ 12.4 million to resolve allegations that they knowingly and improperly evaded AD / CVD duties owed on QSP from
32 QSP from China First Review, USITC Pub. 5578 at I-24( Table I-8); CBP Review Determination of Evasion in EAPA Case 7783( Jan. 11, 2024).
33 QSP from China First Review, USITC Pub. 5578 at I-24( Table I-8); CBP Review Determination of Evasion in EAPA Case 7809( June 20, 2024).
34 Certain Quartz Surface Products from the People’ s Republic of China: Final Scope Ruling on
Malaysian Processed Quartz Slab and Recission of the Circumvention Inquiry, 87 Fed. Reg. 64,011( Dep’ t Commerce Oct. 21, 2022).
35 Id.
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