Solid Senate Support for Combatting Illegal Shrimp Imports
A bipartisan group of eleven powerful U.S. Senators has gone to bat in a big way for the domestic shrimp industry and U.S. shrimp consumers and against illegal shrimp imports by expressing their support for the full implementation of the new U.S. Seafood Import Monitoring Program. Their support was expressed in an April 27, 2017, letter to Department of Commerce […]
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Southern Shrimp Alliance Supports U.S. Customs and Border Protection Efforts to Counter Fraudulent Trade
In comments filed last week with U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), the Southern Shrimp Alliance expressed support for proposed changes to the agency’s “Importer ID Input Record” form (Form 5106). A Form 5106 is required from each “person, business firm, government agency, or other organization” that will file an import entry with the agency and is also required […]
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Department of Justice Enforcement Action
U.S. Government Takes Aggressive Action against Surety to Recover Uncollected Antidumping Duties Yesterday, the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) filed a complaint in the U.S. Court of International Trade (CIT) seeking to recover unpaid antidumping duties from a surety company, Hartford Fire Insurance Company. The complaint filed at the CIT sheds light on some of the challenges faced by U.S. […]
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Know Your Supplier (Continued): Ngoc Sinh Seafoods
Earlier today, Bloomberg News published a brutal story describing visits to troubling aquaculture producers in Ca Mau, Vietnam and Yangjiang, China. In addition to a tilapia farm visited in Yangjiang, the report focuses on how shrimp is prepared for export by a Vietnamese exporter named Ngoc Sinh Seafoods: At Ngoc Sinh Seafoods Trading & Processing Export Enterprise, a seafood exporter […]