The U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC) has posted its final determination on shrimp antidumping duties for frozen warmwater shrimp from Thailand for the period spanning 1 February 2024 through 31 January 2025.
According to a posting to the Federal Register, the DOC has settled on a weighted average dumping margin of 1.76 percent for Thai Union Group Public Co., Thai Union Seafood Co., Pakfood Public Company, Asia Pacific (Thailand) Co., Chaophraya Cold Storage Co., and Takzin Samut Co.
That same 1.76 percent rate was also set for non-examined companies – B.S.A. Food Products Co.; C.K. Frozen Fish and Food Co.; Charoen Pokphand Petrochemical Co.; CP Merchandising Company; Charoen Pokphand Foods Public Co; Klang Co; Seafoods Enterprise Co.; Thai Prawn Culture Center Co.; Good Luck Product Co.; I.T. Foods Industries Co.; KF Foods; KF Foods Limited; Kingfisher Holdings Limited; Kitchens of the Ocean (Thailand) Company; Kitchens of the Ocean (Thailand); Kongphop Frozen Foods Co.; Lee Heng Seafood Co.; S & D Marine Products Co.; Seafresh Industry Public Co., Ltd.; Seafresh Fisheries; Tey Seng Cold Storage Co.; Chaiwarut Company; Top Product Food Co.; and Yeenin Frozen Foods Co.
Just one company, Thai Royal Frozen Foods Co., received a 0 percent margin.
The DOC has been regularly investigating imports of shrimp from multiple different countries and has frequently enacted antidumping or countervailing duties, often enacting both at once. A recent antidumping review hit Indian shrimp with new duties ranging from 3.76 percent to 5.08 percent. In the past, duties against India have hit as high as 110 percent after U.S. Court of International Trade rulings.
Duties have also been levied against companies from Vietnam, Thailand, Ecuador, Indonesia, and China.
Antidumping duties enacted by the DOC are a means of combating “dumping” of product into the U.S., which is a term for when a company from a country outside the U.S. exports a product to the U.S. at a price lower than that company would charge within its own country.
The latest duties on shrimp from Thailand represent effectively no change from the preliminary results the DOC posted on 14 May. Going forward, antidumping duties on all entries of frozen warmwater shrimp from Thailand will be hit with antidumping duties in accordance with those final results.
Domestic shrimp producers in the U.S. have been pushing for antidumping and countervailing duty investigations on shrimp imports, and the American Shrimp Processors Association, the Ad Hoc Shrimp Trade Action Committee, and the U.S. Shrimpers Coalition have all asked for investigations. The DOC is currently engaged in more investigations into shrimp from Thailand, as well as from India, Vietnam, and China, for the period spanning February 2025 through 31 January 2026.
