Metal Pipe Importer Charged With Not Cooperating With Investigation Over AD Duty Fraud

MC Tubular Products, a subsidiary of import/export management firm Metal One Holdings America, is charged with failing to comply with a federal summons, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Texas said. Metal One Holdings America is also charged in the case. MC Tubular, which supplies industrial pipe products to the oil and gas industry, allegedly misrepresented the value of its imports to CBP to avoid paying over $10 million in antidumping duties on metal pipe imported from Japan, the attorney's office said. CBP issued a summons compelling the companies to hand over the documents, which will apparently show whether misrepresentations were made.