July 18, 2008

Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has identified and reclassified more than 1,000 cargo containers of Chinese apparel that were illegally transshipped, according to a report in the Journal of Commerce.

The shipments included more than 900 individual importations containing more than 4 million dozens of apparel declared as products of countries other than China in 2006 and 2007.

These goods have now been identified by Customs as products of China and charged to agreed-upon U.S.-China quota levels.