https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=52515 Imported Vitamin C was found to have a false country-of-origin declaration, because the importer and foreign supplier failed to substantiate the asserted United States origin with reliable evidence. Verification showed the supporting Form 9 and related documents were unreliable, and the stated manufacturing premises did not exist as a manufacturing unit. Correspondence also suggested an attempt to misdescribe Chinese goods as United States-origin goods to avoid anti-dumping duty. On these facts, adverse inference was justified, the claim of United States origin was rejected, and the levy of anti-dumping duty was sustained. en-us Wed, 31 Dec 2003 00:00:00 +0530 Wed, 06 Oct 2010 12:19:50 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=52515 Imported Vitamin C was found to have a false country-of-origin declaration, because the importer and foreign supplier failed to substantiate the asserted United States origin with reliable evidence. Verification showed the supporting Form 9 and related documents were unreliable, and the stated manufacturing premises did not exist as a manufacturing unit. Correspondence also suggested an attempt to misdescribe Chinese goods as United States-origin goods to avoid anti-dumping duty. On these facts, adverse inference was justified, the claim of United States origin was rejected, and the levy of anti-dumping duty was sustained. Case-Laws Customs Wed, 31 Dec 2003 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=52515