Southern Shrimp Alliance Applauds the U.S. Trade Representative’s WTO Challenge to Chinese Export Subsidies
In a press release issued today, the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) announced that the U.S. government is pursuing dispute settlement consultations with the Chinese government at the World Trade Organization (WTO) to address China’s “Demonstration Bases-Common Service Platform.” The USTR’s investigation into the “Demonstration Bases-Common Service Platform” program indicates that certain companies participating as Demonstration […]
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Southern Shrimp Alliance Submits Comments Supporting the Recommendations Proposed by the President’s Task Force on IUU Fishing and Seafood Fraud
In December, the President’s Task Force on Combating Illegal, Unreported, and Unregulated Fishing and Seafood Fraud issued fifteen (15) recommendations “for the implementation of a comprehensive framework of integrated programs to combat IUU fishing and seafood fraud that emphasizes areas of greatest need.” The Task Force invited the public to provide comments regarding the proposed recommendations. In response to this […]
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U.S. International Trade Commission Releases Final Determination in Countervailing Duty Investigations
The U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) has now released the reasons for the agency’s final determination that the domestic shrimp industry was not materially injured or threatened with material injury by reason of subsidized imports. With the support of four of the six Commissioners of the ITC, the agency found that increases in the volume and market share of subsidized […]
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International Trade Commission Declines to Impose Countervailing Duties on Imported Shrimp
This morning, the U.S. International Trade Commission voted against imposing additional duties on subsidized shrimp imports from China, Ecuador, India, Malaysia, and Vietnam. The decision marks the end of the countervailing duty investigations started at the request of the Coalition of Gulf Shrimp Industries (COGSI). At this time, the specific basis for the Commission’s decision is not known. The […]
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U.S. International Trade Commission Announces Schedule for Final Phase of CVD Investigation and Issues Shrimp Industry Questionnaires
The U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) today announced the schedule for the final phase of the agency’s material injury investigation and issued questionnaires to foreign producers, U.S. importers, U.S. shrimp purchasers, U.S. shrimp processors, and U.S. shrimp fishermen and farmers. The ITC is charged by law with determining whether the domestic shrimp industry is materially injured or threatened by material […]
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Commerce Announces Preliminary Countervailing Duty Rates, Rejects COGSI’s Arguments Regarding Scope
Today, the U.S. Department of Commerce announced preliminary determinations in the subsidy investigations of frozen warmwater shrimp imports from China, Ecuador, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, and Vietnam. The cash deposit rates announced, along with the relative volume of the shrimp imports represented by each country, are summarized in the table below. Country 2012 Volume (in metric tons) Cash Deposit […]
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U.S. International Trade Commission Preliminarily Determines Domestic Industry to Include Shrimp Fishermen, Farmers, and Processors
On Friday, the U.S. International Trade Commission released its views supporting the agency’s preliminary finding that there was a reasonable indication that subsidized shrimp imports from China, Ecuador, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, and Vietnam were materially injuring the domestic shrimp industry. The Commission’s formal publication explained that, based on record evidence of the deterioration of financial performance of domestic shrimp […]
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Richard Gutting Commentary
A Trade Alert distributed to subscribers of Urner Barry Foreign Trade Data included a commentary by Richard E. Gutting Jr. addressing the current shrimp trade litigation. Mr. Gutting’s commentary, along with an IntraFish article by John Fiorillo published Thursday, raised the possibility of settlements of the shrimp countervailing duty cases. With Mr. Gutting’s permission, here is that commentary with links […]
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1 Comment on Richard Gutting CommentaryU.S. International Trade Commission Votes to Continue Countervailing Duty Cases
This morning, the U.S. International Trade Commission decided to continue the countervailing duty cases brought against imports of frozen warmwater shrimp from seven countries through a 5 to 1 vote. Only Commissioner Daniel Pearson voted against continuing the cases. The Commission’s determination this morning marks only the fifth time in twenty antidumping and countervailing duty proceedings over the last three […]
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Commerce Formally Initiates CVD Investigations; COGSI Asks International Trade Commission to Exclude Shrimpers from Domestic Shrimp Industry
The U.S. Department of Commerce announced today that it was formally initiating investigations of most of the subsidies on shrimp exports alleged by the Coalition of Gulf Shrimp Industries (COGSI). Commerce found that there was insufficient evidence to initiate investigations on sixteen of the subsidy programs alleged by COGSI, but determined to look further into 117 other subsidy programs alleged […]