DOC to reconsider anti-dumping taxes on Vietnamese shrimp companies

17:26' 09/04/2008 (GMT+7)
VietNamNet Bridge – The Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers (VASEP), quoting Intrafish, has announced that hundreds of Vietnamese shrimp suppliers have been named on the list of companies subject to tax reconsideration by the US Department of Commerce (DOC).
The shrimp association of Louisiana state of the US and private owned companies have asked DOC to reconsider the tax rates imposed on shrimp suppliers from Vietnam, China, India, Thailand, Ecuador and Brazil.
DOC will first reconsider the tax rates imposed on Chinese and Vietnamese shrimp export companies, and then 366 Indian, 165 Thai, 81 Ecuadorian and 43 Brazilian suppliers.
It remains unclear about the number of Vietnamese companies and the names of the companies on the list.
The said numbers of companies subject to the administrative review are not the final as DOC has the right to limit the number of companies for review.
DOC will check the imports from countries in the period of between February 1, 2007 and January 31, 2008. As for Ecuador, the review time will be between February 1, 2007 and August 14, 2007.
Listed companies will have 30 days to prove to DOC that they did not export shrimp at dumping prices in the said review period.

Prior to that, DOC released a preliminary conclusion on the administrative review of the anti-dumping tax on Vietnam’s warm-water frozen shrimp during the period between February 1, 2006 and January 31, 2007. The tax rate on 28 Vietnamese companies was slashed to 0% in the second administrative review.