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Union Pacific Sues Customs Broker for Failure to Pass Along AD/CV Duty Refunds
August 17, 2016 |Penalties and Courts

A Chicago-based customs broker faces a lawsuit in federal court filed by a client seeking to recover millions of dollars in antidumping and countervailing duties that the client claims should have been refunded by the broker. Union Pacific filed suit in Northern Illinois U.S. District Court on Aug. 15, alleging Pactrans failed to pass along $5.8 million in AD/CV duty refunds paid by CBP after an AD/CV duty investigation was terminated with no duties imposed. Union Pacific also claims Pactrans failed to pay two months’ worth of AD/CV duties, costing it thousands of dollars more in penalties.

Chinese National Sentenced for Exporting Fake Circuit Chips to US
July 13, 2016 |Penalties and Courts

A U.S. District Court judge sentenced a Chinese national to 15 months in prison and ordered him to pay a $63,000 fine for conspiracy to sell counterfeit computer chips to someone in the U.S., after a co-conspirator asked a U.S. citizen to steal integrated circuits from the U.S. military and replace those with fake ones, the Justice Department said (here). Daofu Zhang. who pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy, and two accomplices each owned businesses in China that bought and sold the fake chips, including two packages Zhang sent to the U.S. person in November 2015 containing eight counterfeit chips. Zhang’s co-conspirators await sentencing.