Cast Iron Soil Pipe Institute issues statement in response to US CBP findings to antidumping and countervailing orders News provided by Share this article Share this article MUNDELEIN, Ill., Feb. 11, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- On February 8, 2021, U.S. Customs and Border Protection ("CBP") made final determinations that Blue Star Global, Inc. d.b.a. Blue Star Casting of Glendale California and Lino International Inc. of Flushing New York have been evading U.S. antidumping and countervailing orders on cast iron soil pipe and fittings from China by claiming that their imports had been produced in Cambodia by Hicreek Plumbing Co., Ltd. CBP found that Hicreek was set up by Chinese pipe and fittings exporters to disguise the origin of the products. CBP's investigators nevertheless were able to trace shipments of pipe and fittings from China through Hicreek to Blue Star and Lino and went on location in Cambodia to discover that Hicreek was not producing these products as claimed. CBP further found that Lino was an active agent in the evasion and had been making misleading statements to its customers, including Blue Star, regarding imported products. CBP also discovered that Lino set up an additional shell corporation in New York in an attempt to hide from CBP further imports from Hicreek.