Commercial Shrimp Fisherman Sentenced to Over Six Years in Prison for Fraudulent Claims for CDSOA Benefits
On August 30th, Michael Brian Anderson was sentenced to a 77-month prison term in a U.S. federal court for crimes related to the fraudulent submission of applications for and receipt of funds under the Continued Dumping and Subsidy Offset Act (CDSOA) program. Over the last eleven years, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has distributed over $268 million in antidumping […]
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Supreme Court Rejects Request to Review Commerce’s Authority to Apply High Antidumping Duties in Response to Exporters’ Fraud
In multiple administrative reviews of the antidumping duty order on Chinese shrimp, the Chinese shrimp producer and exporter Hilltop International provided false information to the U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) regarding the relationship the company had with a Cambodian company (Ocean King (Cambodia)) that exported shrimp to the United States. Although Hilltop International claimed to have no relationship with Ocean King, […]
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Tackling Fraud
In 2002, the Southern Shrimp Alliance was formed to address the massive price declines that were occurring in our industry. Shortly after formation and through the organization’s initial investigation, we found was that shrimp were being imported from various foreign countries to the U.S. at dumped prices and relief from these unfairly-traded imports was available under U.S. law. As everyone […]
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Read the February 2012 Customs Ruling providing internal advice regarding King & Prince’s entries here:
Read the February 2012 Customs Ruling regarding King & Prince’s protest here:
Bill of Information filed in the case against Worldwide Shrimp
To read the Bill of Information filed in the case against Worldwide Shrimp please click the link below: Bill of Information
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1 Comment on Bill of Information filed in the case against Worldwide ShrimpPersistent Food Safety Problems with Seafood Exported from Vietnam Undermines the FDA’s Oversight of Imported Food Products
The Southern Shrimp Alliance today sent a letter to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration alerting the agency to continued incidents of intentional adulteration of shrimp products produced for export in Vietnam. Per the agency’s own accounting, FDA has attempted to address persistent deficiencies in the safety and wholesomeness of Vietnamese seafood exported to the United States since 2005. Nevertheless, […]
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SSA Notifies FDA of Substantial Increase in Imports from Indian Exporter Subject to Two Import Alerts
The Southern Shrimp Alliance today sent a letter to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration alerting the agency to a significant recent increase in the volume of shrimp exported to the United States by an Indian exporter subject to two import alerts. GVR Exports and Sagar Grandhi – which are alternative names for the same company – are both currently […]
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SSA Describes Rampant Customs Fraud and Duty Evasion Relating to Shrimp Imports in Statement to U.S. Senate
On May 19, 2011, the Southern Shrimp Alliance filed a written statement with the U.S. Senate focusing on the problem of illegal circumvention of shrimp antidumping duties. The statement contributes the experiences and recommendations of the U.S. shrimp industry to a May 5th hearing, “Enforcing America’s Trade Laws in the Face of Customs Fraud and Duty Evasion,” before the U.S. […]
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Foreign Shrimp Exporter Adopts Coding System to Prevent Seafood Fraud
Tarpon Springs, FL—Federal government investigations confirm that millions of dollars of falsely labeled shrimp are imported into the United States every year, an illegal activity that allows unprincipled companies to avoid U.S. food safety and trade laws. The Southern Shrimp Alliance and Devi Sea Foods Limited (Devi), an Indian exporter of shrimp, jointly developed a coding system that will prevent […]