CIT Says CBP Waited Too Long to Demand Duty Payment From Surety
The Court of International Trade on June 11 said CBP waited too long to demand payment on unpaid antidumping duties from surety company Aegis Security Insurance. Judge Jane Restani held both that CBP violated the implied condition of reasonableness in…
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customs bonds in waiting eight years to demand payment and that the agency violated the six-year statute of limitations in which the government can demand payment. Restani became the third CIT judge to rule on the issue of whether CBP can demand payment from surety companies years after the underlying entry was liquidated, siding with one of her colleagues in finding that the statute of limitations runs from the date of liquidation and not the date CBP demands payment.