The U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC) has announced preliminary results of the fifteenth administrative review of the antidumping duty order on frozen warmwater shrimp from India.
Of the 155 companies from India covered by the review, two mandatory respondents – MSA Marines and HN Indigos – were selected for the investigation of sales into the U.S. between 1 February, 2019, and 31 January, 2020, according to a notice published on the Federal Register on 25 June.
“The Department of Commerce (Commerce) preliminarily determines that certain frozen warmwater shrimp (shrimp) from India is being, or is likely to be, sold in the United States at less than normal value during the period of review,” DOC said.
Under the preliminary review, shrimp from MSA Marines will be imposed a dumping margin of 4.73 percent while products from HN Indigos will be taxed at 11.36 percent.
Products from 153 other Indian shrimp exporters will be levied the similar rate of 7.57 percent.
“These dumping margins represent the highest rates calculated for Indian shrimp exporters since commerce completed the first administrative review of Indian shrimp in 2007,” the Southern Shrimp Alliance said in a statement. “Commerce’s recent decisions appear to confirm that Indian shrimp exporters have seen substantial increases in their share of the U.S. market by continuing unfair trading practices.”
The DOC plans to issue the final results of this administrative review within 120 days of publication of these preliminary results.
In December last year, DOC announced the final results of the fourteenth administrative review under which shrimp from India’s ZA Sea Foods Private Limited entering into the U.S. between 1 February, 2018, and 31 January, 2019, will be taxed at 3.06 percent, another notice from the Federal Register showed.
Shrimp from 181 other Indian shrimp exporters will be levied the similar rate of 3.06 percent.
These were lower than the preliminary rate of 3.57 percent for the Indian exporters that DOC had announced in March 2020.
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