Courtesy of SeafoodNews.com:
The U.S. Department of Commerce released the final results of its expedited sunset reviews of the antidumping duty orders on frozen warmwater shrimp from China, India, Thailand and Vietnam.
The Department found that “revocation of the antidumping duty (AD) orders would be likely to lead to continuation or recurrence of dumping.”
According to the notice posted in the Federal Register, Commerce found that revocation would lead to the recurrence of dumping and that the “magnitude of the dumping margins likely to prevail would be weighted- average margins up to 112.81 percent for China, up to 110.90 percent for India, up to 5.34 percent for Thailand, and up to 25.76 percent for Vietnam.”
The products covered by the orders include certain frozen warmwater shrimp and prawns, whether wild- caught (ocean harvested) or farm-raised (produced by aquaculture), head-on or head-off, shell-on or peeled, tail-on or tail-off, deveined or not deveined, cooked or raw, or otherwise processed in frozen form, per the notice.
The Southern Shrimp Alliance shared that the notice highlights that both the Ad Hoc Shrimp Trade Action Committee (AHSTAC) and the American Shrimp Processors Association (ASPA) had submitted timely notices of intent to participate in the third sunset review of these antidumping duty orders.
“Further, Commerce observed that both AHSTAC and ASPA had each filed complete substantive responses to the agency’s announcement that it was initiating the sunset review, but that no substantive responses had been submitted by any foreign exporter or U.S. importer,” per the SSA.
Back on September 2, SeafoodNews covered the U.S. International Trade Commission (USITC)’s notice that announced a five-year review will be conducted to determine whether to revoke the antidumping duty orders on frozen warmwater shrimp from China, India, Thailand, and Vietnam.
The review will “determine whether revocation of the antidumping duty orders on frozen warmwater shrimp from China, India, Thailand, and Vietnam would be likely to lead to continuation or recurrence of material injury within a reasonably foreseeable time.”
At this time, the USITC said a schedule for the reviews has yet to be established but a schedule will be announced later.
According to the Federal Register notice, the USITC found that the domestic interested party group response and the respondent interested party group responses from India, Thailand, and Vietnam to its notice of institution were adequate. However, it found that the respondent interested party group response from China was inadequate.
The Alliance shared that when the full review begins, the Commission “will issue questionnaires to U.S. shrimp fishermen, farmers, and processors in order to obtain information necessary to evaluate whether the domestic shrimp industry will be materially injured if the trade relief is removed.”
Examples of these questionnaires can be obtained at the ITC’s website at the following link: https://usitc.gov /trade_remedy/question.htm.