According to information from Vasep, International Trade Commission under the U.S Department of Commerce has give out its last decision on antidumping duties of shrimp which are exported from Thailand, China, India, Vietnam, Brazil and Ecuador from the period of August 2004 to January 1st, 2006. Those countries have to bear annually administrative evaluation of the US. Some companies of China and Vietnam are cut antidumping duties level down to “zero”; on the other hand some cases increase.

For China, the anti-dumping duties level is from 0.44% to 112.81%
Thailand from 2.58% to 57.64%
Vietnam from 0% to 25.76%
Brazil from 4.62% to 67.8%
Ecuador from 0% to 3.69%

In fact, the average level for almost countries reduces or levels off. However, this adjustment is not applied for enterprises which have out-of-court agreement with the Southern Shrimp Alliance of the US (SSA).

The more important issue here does not lie in the administrative evaluation but decisions set in WTO, in which India and Thailand have been pursuing the lawsuit against the US after the winning of Ecuador. WTO made a decision that the US’s “zeroing” is illegal, by which the anti-dumping duties of shrimp are not calculated accurately. According to the predication of the industrial experts, in the future these tax levels will be questioned in comply with the regulations of WTO as in the case of Ecuador.