US, Surety Move to Stay Case on Unpaid Duties Pending Separate CAFC Appeal
The U.S. and surety firm Aegis Security Insurance moved to stay the government's case against Aegis to collect unpaid duties on entries of garlic imported in 2002, pending the government's appeal of a separate case against Aegis. The case on…
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appeal concerns the Court of International Trade's decision finding that its claim for unpaid duties against a surety company on an entry liquidated in 2009 violates both the statute of limitations for seeking payment and an implied requirement in the bond that demand for payment be made in a reasonable amount of time (see 2508080056). In the case the parties are looking to stay, Aegis said the six-year statute of limitations to file a claim for unpaid duties runs from the date of liquidation of the underlying entries (see 2507020029) (United States v. Aegis Security Insurance, CIT # 25-00051).