China Frozen Shrimp: ITA May Reverse 2007 Changed Circumstances Review for Hilltop on Fraud Charges
The International Trade Administration is preliminarily reversing its decision from a 2007 changed circumstances review of the antidumping duty order on frozen warmwater shrimp from China (A-570-893) that resulted in Hilltop International being named successor-in-interest to Yelin Enterprise Co. Hong Kong. Hilltop had inherited Yelin’s separate rate because of the ITA’s determination. The ITA is investigating fraud allegations against Hilltop related to a transshipment scheme, and its findings have proven Hilltop’s representations “unreliable for any purposes,” it said.
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Hilltop is already subject to the China-wide rate because of the ITA’s application of adverse facts available in connection with the fraud allegations during the 2010-11 administrative review. The company had been set for its third consecutive zero rate and company-specific revocation before the allegations surfaced. The allegations also resulted in the expansion of a CIT remand of the 2009-10 administrative review to consider the evidence of fraud.
(See ITT’s Online Archives 07062040 for summary of the 2007 final results of the changed circumstances review. See also ITT’s Online Archives 12083123 for summary of the final results of the 2010-11 AD administrative review, and 13011003 for summary of CIT’s expansion of its remand.)