[20080512]RS22290_贸易救济：“新发货人”审查.pdf

Order Code RS22290Updated May 12, 2008Trade Remedies: “New Shipper” ReviewsVivian C. JonesSpecialist in International Trade and FinanceForeign Affairs, Defense, and Trade DivisionSummarySome U.S. producers of merchandise subject to antidumping (AD) duties orcountervailing duties (CVD) complain that U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP)have not collected the full amount of duties owed on targeted imports. One of the“loopholes” often cited is a law that allows importers that receive goods from newexporters of targeted merchandise to post bonds instead of cash deposits while aninvestigation of the “new shipper” is conducted to assess an appropriate AD or CVDduty amount based on the exporters previous sales. Congress suspended the new shipper bonding privilege from April 1, 2006 to June30, 2009 (sec. 1632(a) of P.L. 109-280). A May 2008 report by the U.S. GovernmentAccountability Office (GAO) estimated that abuse of the new shipper bonding privilegewas responsible for about 40% of the uncollected duties from fiscal years 2001 to 2007.This report will be updated as events warrant.BackgroundU.S. antidumping (AD) laws (19 U.S.C. 1673 et seq.) authorize the imposition ofremedial duties