Perfectus Aluminum and affiliated warehousing companies have agreed to pay $549.5m to resolve longstanding False Claims Act allegations that they knowingly evaded, or conspired to evade, more than $3 billion of antidumping and countervailing (AD/CVD) duties. The businesses allegedly avoided these fees on $880m-worth of aluminum extrusions imported from China.
Aluminum company to pay $549.5m in FCA duty evasion case
The end to a longstanding case shows how efforts to reclassify bulk products can cross the line into duty evasion.