Recently, the US International Trade Commission (ITC) completed its third five-year anti-dumping review and unanimously agreed to impose anti-dumping duties on imported shrimp products from China, India, Thailand and Vietnam.

According to data from the Federal Register, ITC has imposed additional anti-dumping duties of 0.07-112.81% on Chinese shrimp products, 4.94-15.36% on India, and 5.91-6.82% on Thailand in its review since 2017. Vietnam imposes a tax rate of 4.30-25.76%.

The American Shrimp Processors Association (ASPA) said in a statement: “For decades, a surge in imported shrimp has created a price race down and destroyed our market share. Today, the ITC provides us with a new lifeline and Motivation, let us continue to fight for the survival of this industry on a level playing field."

In addition, on May 31, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection announced that it would collect about $4.4 million in anti-dumping and countervailing duties for domestic subsidies, the largest of which ($2.3 million) came from Chinese crayfish anti-dumping and countervailing duties. The amount available for allocation of anti-dumping duties on imported vannamei shrimp is only US$3,270.