US Government Gets New Chance to Impose Duties on Tire Importer

Auto part manufacuter Katana Racing Inc.‘s effort to avoid paying over $5.7 million in duties and fees to the US took a hit from the Federal Circuit Thursday.

The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit reversed a lower court’s 2022 ruling that the government’s suit was untimely and the court lacked jurisdiction over it, according to an opinion by Judge Alvin A. Schall.

The government’s 2019 suit against Katana was filed outside the applicable statute of limitations. But the government said that its suit was still timely because Katana had executed three consecutive waivers of the statute ...

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