U.S. regulators scrutinizing American companies’ transactions with Chinese firms
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Aaron Nicodemus2025-07-24T15:33:00
Recent enforcement actions by U.S. agencies overseeing customs payments and export control laws indicate increased scrutiny of business transactions between U.S. and Chinese companies.
In the most recent example, two subsidiaries of a New York-based plastics manufacturer will pay $6.8 million to settle False Claims Act violations for failing to pay customs duties on resin from China.
MGI International’s subsidiaries, Global Plastics and Marco Polo International, self-disclosed to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of New Hampshire that they failed to name the correct country of origin, and failed to pay the correct customs duties, on plastic resin imported from China between 2019 and 2024.
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