Trade Staff Settle On CBP For Evasion Probes, Judicial Review Unresolved

Congressional trade staff who are negotiating a compromise between the House and Senate customs bills have agreed that Customs & Border Protection (CBP) will be put in charge of investigating allegations that importers have circumvented antidumping and countervailing duty orders, but have failed to settle whether any evasion decisions could be challenged in court, according to private-sector sources. The House customs bill, which contained a modified version of the so-called PROTECT Act, proposed that the Commerce Department be the investigating...