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    ITA Finds Evasion of P&T Duties Via Vietnam in Final Ruling

    Written by Laura Miller


    A US government agency announced this week that certain welded steel pipe and tube products being exported from Vietnam to the US have, in fact, been illegally evading the payment of import duties.

    The US Department of Commerce’s International Trade Administration (ITA) issued its final rulings in a handful of investigations examining the circumvention of antidumping and countervailing duties (AD/CVDs). The notices were posted in the US government’s Federal Register.

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