The U.S. Department of Commerce announced in Tuesday's Federal Register that it's restoring antidumping duty rates of 4.57 percent for numerous Vietnamese shrimp exporters.
The administrative review period extends from Feb. 1, 2006, to Jan. 31, 2007.
The tariffs stem from an antidumping petition the Southern Shrimp Alliance, an eight-state group of shrimp fishermen and processors, filed against shrimp exporters in six Asian and South American countries in 2003.
Companies receiving the 4.57 percent rate include Amanda Foods Ltd., Cadovimex Seafood Import-Export and Processing Joint Stock Co., Cafatex Fishery Joint Stock Corp., Can Tho Agricultural and Animal Product Import Export Co., Cuulong Seaproducts Co. and Danang Seaproducts Import Export Corp.
Some companies were found not to be dumping and received no rate, including Minh Phat Seafood Co. Ltd. and Camau Frozen Seafood Processing Import Export Corp.
The countrywide rate for companies that aren't issued rates individually remained at 25.76 percent.
