The Impact of Duties, in Purchasers’ and Foreign Producers’ Own Words Commissioner Johanson: “Did you see any changes in the market following the imposition of preliminary relief?” Mark Palicki, COO of Fortune International: “The prices are going up. The prices went up last week, actually – just domestically as well, from the fishermen.”[1] Commissioner Johanson:…

On April 1, 2024, Commerce published preliminary countervailing duties on shrimp from Ecuador, India, and Vietnam. Two months later, on May 30, 2024, preliminary antidumping duties were imposed on imports from Ecuador and Indonesia. The first four months after both preliminary antidumping and countervailing duties were imposed was June through September of 2024. Imports from…

Who Filed Briefs Arguing for Higher Duties at Commerce? In addition to the work put in to win an affirmative injury vote at the International Trade Commission reviewed in last week’s Shrimp Duties Updates, ASPA also led the way in advocating for higher antidumping and countervailing duty rates in the six investigations on shrimp from…

In the final phase injury investigations on shrimp imports at the International Trade Commission, a key part of making the case was answering questions from the four Commissioners and Commission staff. At the Commission’s hearing in October 22, 2024, ASPA witnesses and counsel answered 81 questions from Commissioners. Witnesses and counsel for the U.S. Shrimpers…

In the final phase of in its injury investigation, the International Trade Commission issued injury questionnaires to shrimp fishermen. More than 540 responded in a historic outpouring of support for ASPA’s trade cases. The fishermen responses were a key part of the record that ultimately supported an affirmative determination one week ago, which will result…

Domestic Industry Participation in The ITC’s Preliminary Injury Investigation After ASPA filed its petitions on shrimp from Ecuador, India, Indonesia and Vietnam on October 25, 2023, the International Trade Commission had only 45 days to decide whether there was enough evidence of injury to the domestic industry to allow the cases to proceed. In addition…

As ASPA was preparing petitions against shrimp imports last year, it promised fishermen that they would be included in the case. ASPA made good on its promise. Today’s post shows that ASPA consistently advocated for the inclusion of fishermen in the domestic industry in numerous submissions before both trade agencies. The Ad Hoc Shrimp Trade…

ASPA begins engaging Commerce on self-initiation: Spring 2017 Commerce self-initiates only new case since 1991: November 2017 ASPA begins researching petitions: February 2023 Months required to research, prepare, and file petitions: Eight Processors’ data collected for petitions: 25 Boats’ data collected to support petitions: > 800 ASPA files petitions: October 2023 Number of petitions: six…

On November 19, 2024, thanks to petitions filed by the American Shrimp Processors Association, the U.S. International Trade Commission voted unanimously to impose antidumping and countervailing duties on imports of shrimp from Ecuador, India, Indonesia, and Vietnam.  This couldn’t have happened without support from both the processing and fishing segments of the domestic industry. U.S….