CIT Sustains CBP's Negative Evasion Finding in Frozen Shrimp EAPA Case

The Court of International Trade upheld CBP's remand results finding that MSeafood Corp. did not evade antidumping duties on frozen warmwater shrimp from India by transshipping its products through Vietnam. Judge Claire Kelly said she found CBP's Trade Remedy Law Enforcement Directorate's affirmative evasion finding unsupported but sustained the CBP's Office of Regulations and Ruling's negative evasion finding. The judge added that, while she found CBP's explanation of its treatment of confidential information "inadequate," the deficiency is "harmless given the judicial protective order issued in the case."