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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…

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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.