By NEIL HARTNELL

Tribune Business Editor

A LEADING bottled water manufacturer is questioning whether it fell victim to an import duty-related scam, as it raced against time yesterday afternoon to clear imported machine parts vital to prevent it from running out of water by today.

Geoffrey Knowles, one of Aquapure's principals, yesterday told Tribune Business that with just 35,000 gallons of bottled water left the company was likely to "be out by tonight (Tuesday)", unless it was able to clear replacement parts for its reverse osmosis machine through Customs.

He explained that Customs was refusing to clear the spare parts on the grounds that Aquapure had failed to pay it due imp ...

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