“It appears from the record that the decision to single out shrimp importers was motivated entirely by considerations other than any unique risk to the revenue that such importers actually posed,”Judge Timothy Stanceu said in his ruling, issued Tuesday.
The companies will be able to get redetermined bonds that will be dramatically lower and cost them far less in terms of dollars tied up in excessive bonds, the National Fisheries Institute (NFI) told IntraFish.
NFI sued Customs in the U.S. Court of International Trade on behalf of 27 of its members over excessive bonding requirements the plaintiffs argued were unreasonable -- and the court agreed.
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