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GAO-08-876R 1 (2008-07-24)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptawuu0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G GAO Accountability * Integrity * Reliability United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 July 24, 2008 The Honorable Robert C. Byrd Chairman The Honorable Thad Cochran Ranking Member Committee on Appropriations United States Senate The Honorable David R. Obey Chairman The Honorable Jerry Lewis Ranking Member Committee on Appropriations House of Representatives Subject: Agencies Believe Strengthening International Agreements to Improve Collection of Antidumping and Countervailing Duties Would Be Difficult and Ineffective The United States and many of its trading partners have enacted laws to remedy the unfair trade practices of other countries and foreign companies that cause injury to domestic industries. U.S. law authorizes the imposition of additional duties on importers to remedy these unfair trade practices.' Specifically, antidumping (AD) duties are imposed on imports that are dumped in the United States (i.e., sales in the U.S. market at less than the market price in the item's home market) and countervailing (CV) duties are imposed on imports that are subsidized by foreign governments. Importers are responsible for paying all duties, taxes, and fees on products when they are brought into the United States (including AD/CV duties). Importers can be located either domestically or overseas. Since fiscal year 2001, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), which is responsible for collecting import duties, has been unable to collect hundreds of millions of dollars in AD/CV duties.2 In March 2008, we reported that over '19 U.S.C. §§ 1671, 1673. 2This includes uncollected duties from fiscal years 2001 through 2007, as of September 2007. GAO-08-876R Collecting Antidumping and Countervailing Duties

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