U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued approximately USD 350 million (EUR 294.3 million) in fines against American Seafoods and other companies associated with the company’s supply chain.
The fines, which were all issued in August 2021, apparently relate to the use of an intermodal facility in the Canadian province of New Brunswick that is used to transport Alaskan seafood to the U.S. East Coast.
In response to the fines, American Seafoods subsidiary Alaska Reefer Management (ARM) and the company that operates the New Brunswick facility, Kloosterboer International Forwarding, filed a lawsuit on Thursday, 2 September against the CBP and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, stating the companies have operated in compliance with the Jones Act, which prohibits transportation of domestically-caught seafood and any other goods of U.S. origin inside the country unless the vessel is U.S.-built and U.S.-owned.
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This article, by Cliff White, was curated from Seafoodsource.com/news
