The U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC) has announced preliminary results of the fourteenth administrative review of the antidumping duty order on frozen warmwater shrimp from India, according to the Southern Shrimp Alliance.
Under a notice published on the Federal Register on 6 March, shrimp from India’s Z A Sea Foods Private Limited entering into the U.S. between 1 February, 2018, and 31 January, 2019, will be taxed at the same dumping duty of 3.57 percent.
The preliminary decision was made as DOC “preliminarily determined that the company [Z A Sea Foods Private Limited] was selling shrimp into the United States market during the review period at less than fair value.”
Products from 180 other Indian shrimp exporters will be levied the similar rate of 3.57 percent, which SSA said “would represent the highest duty rate imposed on Indian shrimp since the fourth administrative review in 2010 assigned a 4.44 [percent] antidumping duty to one Indian company (the Liberty Group),” if the rate is maintained in the final results.
The DOC plans to announce the final results of this administrative review within 120 days of publication of these preliminary results.
The Ad Hoc Shrimp Trade Action Committee is the petitioner for DOC’s administrative review of the antidumping duty order on frozen warmwater shrimp from India.
India exported 40,510 MT of shrimp in January, an increase of 6.4 percent year-on-year, but contracting 35.6 percent from December. The U.S. remained the biggest destination for shrimp from India in the month with a total export volume of 18,145 MT, up 12.7 percent from a year earlier but down 27.3 percent month-on-month.
Last year, India exported 280,832 MT of shrimp to the U.S., rising 13 percent year-on-year. The imports were worth USD 2.37 billion (EUR 2.07 billion), up 9 percent from 2018, data from India’s Ministry of Commerce and Industry showed.
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